Anyway, Jane Crowfoot had a tip about making a blanket with repeated elements. She said rather than doing one whole element at a time (which is what I tend to do), it's better to do the first round of all the elements, then the next round on all of them, and so on. She says that way, if your tension changes, your motifs are more likely to end up the same size.
I took her up on her advice and started working the remaining motifs of the Persian Tile blanket that way. I have five of the large octagons made so I'm now working on the remaining eleven.
It was such a beautiful sunny day today, we ate in the garden and then I sat and crocheted a bit in the evening sunshine. Lovely.
Best wishes,
Frivole
I loooove these crocheted tiles! The colors are so vivid and harmonious, can't wait to see the finished blanket :)
ReplyDeleteThat's a beautiful pattern! I've read that tip before, and it makes sense to me.
ReplyDeleteOh wow, that Persian Tile is stunning!!
ReplyDeleteEven if my favourite is Frida's flowers, I like this one, too. That way of going with many motifs in rounds it's how I do with tatting, for ex in doilies with flowers around, I find in this way I'm very satisfied, when you finish all centers you fell strongly motivated to finish the doily!!
ReplyDeletefeel (sorry) aehm!!
DeleteWhat a good idea and I can understand what she means about tension, I don't crochet but I have knitted a bed cover, it had six different patterns that made up the blanket, instead of making so many of each pattern I looked at the graph and knitted them in order of each line so I did not get fed up with knitting so many of each pattern at a time.
ReplyDeleteIt was beautiful weather yesterday I do hope this continues for the summer.
Margaret
That is going to be so awesome!!! What fabulous colors!!! :)
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