I finished my latest afghan. It took me the better part of a year. It was something I could pick up and put down frequently between assignments and studying.
The pattern is here. The pattern is fantastic, easy to follow with a lot of pictures to demonstrate stitches.
The only problem I had doing the afghan was the edges where VERY uneven, it was my own fault; for a while I was doing a stitch in the same spot as the turning chain, something I had to learn the hard way you should not do.
The colours I used where very random as not long after starting the blanket I inherited more yarn than I had ever thought possible.
I had a lot of shades of pink, blue and green and a few techni coloured yarns.
I aimed for the blanket to be really big, but did not think it would be bigger than a double mattress.
The reason it was on the mattress was due to the edges being insanely uneven I had to block put the blanket and ask my sister to help me stretch it out.
I simply googled ways to block a blanket and the best method I could find was pinning the sides out on a mattress.
You would start by pinning the largest parts out first and then stretching the rest of the blanket to meet that long part, then spraying the blanket with water (I used an iron to spray it) then leaving tit o dry,
It's funny because my boyfriend's dad said the blanket would be finished by the time winter was over and its January 1st, in the middle of summer.... he was not wrong.
