The 2025 fall blanket kit from Attic24 was the Storyteller Blanket, I didn’t really NEED to crochet a blanket, but decided I would make one if I had enough yarn in my stash, I know we are all shocked that I did indeed have enough yarn. I had to substitute a few colours, but I think they were good replacements. This one is in the to be gifted bin.
My co-worker Erika bought a new house and moved into it over the Christmas holiday’s. I let her pick a pattern for a housewarming blanket, she really liked the first one I showed her which was the Flowerpress from Attic24. I had bought three of the kits when it was released in the fall of 2024 because I loved the colours, I knew I wanted to make a larger version because I’m not usually a fan of square blankets, and I’d want to make a 2nd blanket one day. I switched it from 4 x 4 squares to 4 x 6 squares. I had made an excel spreadsheet with the extra colours planned out, so that saved me a lot of work! My friend Cailin is about to get started on one as well and was planning on making it larger, so I shared my spreadsheet with her. All that extra project planning at the beginning really does come in handy sometimes!
I was supervised by Miss Marple throughout the process.
The yarn is really nice compared to other recycled fibres I’ve used. It’s 40% Wool, 30% Acrylic, and 30% Polyester, from plastic bottles. It feels a bit rough like cotton when you are working with it, but washes up like a pair of soft denim jeans.
The first time I crocheted this blanket I tried to use the pattern join, but found it too tight, I switched it out to the continuous flat braid join from The Patchwork Heart UK. It’s a very pretty join, just using single crochet and chain stitches, see the notes below for my adjustments. It is more of a yarn eater though, so I had to buy one more ball of champagne to make this blanket. I still have enough yarn left that I can probably make a lap or baby blanket with it.
3.5 mm hook for squares. 4 mm hook for joining and first round of border.
Blanket is 4 x 4 squares. I made 4 x 6 squares.
Switched out pattern join for continuous flat braid join with, chain 2s and 3s instead of chain 3s and 5s. After joining round, slip stitch into corner space
Next round: chain 1, (sc, ch 2, sc) into corner space. Sc in first stitch, hdc in missed sc of 2 rounds below (last round of square done in champagne.) continues across side. Where squares meet, hdc in corner loop 2 rounds below, sc in corner loop of last round, sc2tog over both corner loops, sc in corner loop of next square, hdc in corner loop of 2 rounds below. There will be 5 stitches across this joining area. In corners work sc, ch2, sc.
181 stitches across short side on round 2 of border.
273 stitches across long side on round 2 of border.
Plus 4 corner stitches.
Broke into second kit to work joining and border. Final yarn amounts used in grams:
My son Rowan was in his friend’s wedding party in August, I offered to make a blanket as a wedding gift. Went with the classic ripple in many shades of blue and green, with some purples and white thrown in for contrast.
I really struggled with weaving in ends, after doing it with the Attic24 instructions by doing it double stranded, I started a few rounds of a border. I realized I didn’t like the border colour I’d chosen, and the woven in ends were lumpy and unattractive. I pulled the border out. Then plucked out all the ends and wove them in single stranded, much happier, then also changed up the border idea.
Border: followed instructions from Snufflebean Crochet on straightening up the end rows, then followed her ripple edging with first two rounds in Aster, then round 3 in Lapis with corners done as 2 hdc, ch 2, 2 hdc. No round 4.
I love a Crochet-A-Long (CAL) especially the ones by Lucy of Attic24. She has been designing and hosting one in January for a number of years now, I almost always participate. It gives me something to look forward to in the cold and dark months of January and February. She always has a yarn pack you can buy from Wool Warehouse UK to go along with it, and I usually buy a pack, but some years I don’t, perhaps the colours don’t call to me, or I decide that I really should use yarn I already own and do some stash busting, or my daughter decides the blanket should be hers and picks out her own colours…
This past December we had a mail strike in Canada so I couldn’t order the yarn pack without paying more for DHL shipping, which is always a last resort for me. Luckily I had a Starbright Blanket kit from Lucy that I hadn’t used yet, and many of the colours of the Canalboat CAL were in it, with a little stash busting I was able to pull my own yarn pack together.
This year my husband James was the lucky recipient, I hadn’t made him his own blanket yet, he wanted one for his lap that the cats could cuddle on when he was in his recliner. I think they approve of it. They both supervised it’s creation.
I really love the folk art feel of it that Lucy was going for, it definitely adds a bright splash of colour to the livingroom! Details of my yarn substitutions are below, I’ve also noted how many grams of each colour that I used in parenthesis behind the colour name.
Colourway: Apple, Aster, Bottle, Claret, French Navy, Fuchsia Purple, Kelly Green, Lipstick, Lobelia, Gold, Magenta, Pomegranate, Powder Pink, Teal, Turquoise
Notes: I decided not to use the Canalboat yarn pack, there was a mail strike in December which meant I couldn’t order it on time, plus the colours aren’t really calling to me. I decided to stash bust and am using most of the Starbright yarn pack, but switching out two to get more contrast and match the folk art feel of the pattern. Removed Empire and Lapis from Starbright kit.
After row 5 my blanket is 132 cm wide
Two hook sizes, because I always start off with looser tension in a striped blanket and have to go up a hook size after 5-6 inches or my blanket narrows noticeably.
