I made this blanket for my grandniece Georgia (my first grand and I'm so excited! I'm 'Grant Jill' now!!!), it looks complicated but the pattern is not hard - it's just the changing of the yarn every couple of rows that's a little time-sucking. Actually, changing colors is easy, it's the weaving in of all the ends that isn't very fun hahaha. But it's a baby blanket and not very big (about 36" square) so it didn't take too long to finish burying the loose ends.
I followed the pattern for the bobble stitch crochet found here at mooglyblog.com but there are lots of free patterns for this stitch online.
Once I had the crochet top finished I cut a square of pre-washed flannel about an inch bigger than the crochet square, turn under the edges about 1/2" to fit the crochet part, and sewed them together using my sewing machine. I read a tip to make a small sample of the crochet pattern and experiment sewing it to a small piece of flannel to make sure the machine wasn't going to catch - so I did, and it didn't. I sewed on the flannel side with the crochet part underneath and the yarn didn't catch or pull on the machine feeder dogs.
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| changing colors for every row = lots of loose ends! |
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| I weave in the ends using a large plastic needle or a small skinny crochet hook |
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| the reverse side of the bobble stitch, in case you don't want to add a flannel lining/back |
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| that face!!! 😂 |
8.21.22: 🔥 week 34
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