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- Size: 58 inches x 75 inches (without border: 55 inches x 72 inches)
- Colors: Bone, Sage, Red, Red Violet, Limelight, Violet, Chocolate, Mango, Lemonade, Blue Mint, Grape, Soft Green, Berry Blue, Watermelon, Rubine Red, Iris (Caron Simply Soft) (see thumbnails of these colors!)
- Pattern: Babette Blanket - Design by Kathy Merrick (with modifications by me)
- Book: Interweave Crochet (magazine) - Spring 2006 - Copyright 2006 - Interweave Press
- Hook: G
- Date: start June 24; finish August 13 (but didn't work on it for a total of about 17 days during this time period)
[UPDATE January 2008: Interweave Press is offering the Babette Blanket pattern on their website!]
A larger view of the full-size completed Babette Blanket (I need to take a better photo!!!):
Simply put: I'm in love.
The default configuration:
To make the Babette Blanket in its original configuration (without the border; 55w x 51h) using worsted weight Caron Simply Soft yarn and a G hook, I used less than 1 skein of yarn for each of the 17 colors, including Color A. In addition, although the pattern says to use Color A for joining all the squares and panels, I instead used one of the colors of the squares that were being joined.
My additional panel:
By the time I had completed the additional panel I designed to make the blanket more rectangular (55w x 21h), I had still used only one skein of each color, but Color A C is very low.
For the border around the rectangular-shaped Babette Blanket, I used Colors R, K, and S in that order.
Below is the chart and layout of the additional panel I designed for my Babette Blanket - it is joined at the bottom of the original design (if you have the pattern for Babette, these will be familiar to you):
The pattern for the squares is a common variation of the traditional granny square. Because I don't like the join showing on one side of each square, I join in a corner instead. It is published as square #3 Square Target in the book "200 Crochet Blocks for Blankets, Throws, and Afghans" by Jean Eaton - AND, it is square #77 in "99 Granny Squares to Crochet" (with this mod: make each corner 2dc ch 2 2dc) by Leisure Arts. I just found this online version of the square pattern called "No Seam Granny Square" at Chez Crochet (scroll to bottom of page).
The value in using the Babette Blanket pattern created by Kathy Merrick published in the Spring 2006 Interweave Crochet magazine is having the color charts for the squares and the diagram of the square placement. Based on my experience creating the additional panel for my Babette Blanket, the planning of square placement and colors in the original pattern is excellent!
Thumbnails of the Caron Simply Soft colors I used:
Bone
Sage
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