Blanket completed

I meant to post I had finished my blanket, I will make sure I take a pic and upload it. I need to sew the ends, but it is finished. Go me!

Liz blanket - update

I just remembered, I took a pic of my blanket this morning, and havent posted it yet.
So, here it is:

PS - Sorry for the dog under the blanket, he didnt want to move !

Saved by the postie

Im glad to report that my emergency paying on ebay for wool has arrived - so I now have 15 more spare balls of the colour I was short on. I should (I hope) have enough to finish now.

Its growing well, Im now near the top of the 3rd diamond row,  Im finding it harder to crochet with my wool in a bag, as well as 4 big furry faces wanting to assist, much as I love them their idea of "assist" really isnt assisting, lying on it, drooling on it, distracting me coz they want to hug, go out, eat, play, hug, play, did I mention hug? its almost like one of those comical things where each time you put a toe in the bath the phone rings or something.

Id do a picture, but its another bout of playtime, and I want some lunch so maybe later!

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My blanket so far

OK, so I have realised I seriously dont count well when it comes to wool and blankets, I either buy 20 too many thinking its going to take like 50 to make a blanket or I start out with like 25, and realise I need 20 more.. what gives?

Anyway, heres my blanket so far:

Moving on!

So, progress is very slow, this is not aided by 1 small factor.

Someone keeps sleeping on it!

My wool problem

As you can see, far too many balls of wool and somewhere to keep them safe, and stopping them from tangling

First pic.

Well, this time last week, my blanket didnt look much different, in fact, arguably I would have to do a lot to explain just how undifferent it is, but in short, the stitch I missed was gone  back to and found. The pale joiners are now 2 stitches wider, and so now add up. Sad part is, if I hadnt lost that stitch a while back Id only have had to go back 2 rows..

For those astute, yes this is the same pattern as the one I did for me before, but this time the diamonds are the darker brown not gold and the "background" is all the pale brown, oh and technically each of those diamonds forming the bigger diamond is 1 bigger, it was a 6x6 now its 7x7. As its done on slightly smaller hook, the blankets no bigger but, it is slightly thicker.

Liz Blanket

So, following the revalation that I had majorly stuffed up my blanket, I sat down and reworked back to the place where I had lost a stitch - which was half way through the first big diamond, on top of that, I then spent a couple of days working out how in heck I had got it so wrong. Turns out, I cant count, on my design, I knew what I had meant (and I swear I had counted so carefully) but, I had got it wrong and I had placed the joiners in the wrong place. As a result, this is why it wasnt working out - as when I came to do it for real, its much easier to see, and so, now I have adjusted my design and continue on.

Just a shame nearly a week later I havent caught up with where I was!

My new blanket

OK, so I started my blanket Im about 46 rows in. I got to the end of the first set of brown diamonds, went to check the spacing again as it looked a bit uneven to find, it is. How in hell have I done that? Im so annoyed. I cant see how Ive ended up out of line, there isnt the space required. Before I pull it all apart, swear and curse like a navvy and possibly even give up, I need to find where Ive gone wrong, if its coz Ive designed it wrong, I will be mad, coz thats always a possibility given I was changing the pattern, if I have counted wrong, I dont see how it seems according to my design I have the right number of stitches between the diamonds at the widest points, so how can it not add up now? The diamonds are right, only thing can be the connectors, and frankly they are simple enough that shouldnt be possible.Grr something isnt right and I dont get it.. So annoyed.