Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Square

Motif 48 really is square. It would look good repeated. It's larger than I expected, 11 cm across in size 20 thread. I made a bit of a meal of it, TWICE joining the little corner flowers in the wrong place. The first time, I noticed quite soon and could untat. The second time, as you can see at the bottom of below, I tatted on merrily before I realised that I had only one repeat and not two before the corner:

Hmm.  Untatting would take ages and likely make the thread scruffy.  Cutting would result in a lot of ends to hide. Then I realised I could just cut the flower off and tat another one. It worked fine, phew.
The blanket is square only in the sense that it is now correct. I undid the section that had too few stitches and redid it. Here are the two blankets together:
I think I achieved my aim to make blankets that were subtly blue and pink for twin boy and girl.
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  1. MaureenAugust 10, 2016 at 12:56 AM

    The colours are lovely, but I'm not liking all that bare thread! - gorgeous blankets, I'm glad they turned out after your painstaking work.
    I wonder whether the bare thread spaces could possibly be replaced by lock chains? - although getting the stitch count just right would be crucial, wouldn't it, in order to keep the square shape undistorted

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    1. Jane McLellanAugust 10, 2016 at 5:14 AM

      No, the bare thread spaces are because of working with three shuttles. The centre part is worked with brown and cream, then you drop brown and work with cream and green. When you come back to the centre, you have a gap with the brown, which is bridged with the bare thread. No getting round it!

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  2. Jane EborallAugust 10, 2016 at 1:32 AM

    The blankets are gorgeous. I like that square but what a lot of ends to sew in even without boo boos!!! Interesting pattern.

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    1. Jane McLellanAugust 10, 2016 at 5:15 AM

      3, which is going to happen if you have 3 shuttles, which all the patterns in this section do. I did hide the starting threads, otherwise there would be 6!

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    2. Jane McLellanAugust 10, 2016 at 5:21 AM

      Oh no, I just remembered, plus the ends of the 4 corner flowers, you're right, it is a lot of ends! I just did them, without thinking about it too much.

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  3. MichelleAugust 10, 2016 at 5:29 AM

    Haha! I wonderful if redoing the corner motif would have occurred to me until after the untatting! The blankets are absolutely wonderful"

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  4. muskaanAugust 10, 2016 at 5:51 AM

    What a perfect square; and so many more polygonal shapes within ! Love this pattern :-)
    The blankets are Great !

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  5. God's KidAugust 10, 2016 at 6:20 AM

    Great motif!!! :)
    Fabulous and fun blankets!!! :)

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  6. Margarets designer cardsAugust 10, 2016 at 11:02 AM

    Love this square motif, Two gorgeous blankets so pleased you got it right it was really worth it.

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  7. FoxAugust 10, 2016 at 5:54 PM

    Great square! And the two blankies are perfect! All these projects just might keep you out of trouble! ; )

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  8. BerniceAugust 10, 2016 at 6:12 PM

    Smart to remove the flower. I often leave mistakes a day or two until I figure out the right method to correct. Your blankets look great. Lucky twins!

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  9. Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ DianeAugust 11, 2016 at 3:48 AM

    That is a wonderful color combination! Isn't it funny how solutions to mistakes sometimes take a while to come to us? I'm glad you found your solution. The baby blankets are adorable... lucky twins!

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  10. Batty TatterAugust 11, 2016 at 9:28 AM

    The baby blankets are sweet. Can you post the pattern for them?

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    1. Jane McLellanAugust 11, 2016 at 12:03 PM

      Scroll down to earliest post re blanket and you'll find a link to the pattern.

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  11. AnonymousAugust 12, 2016 at 5:38 AM

    Gorgeous blankets, such an interesting pattern

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