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Friends Around The World Blanket

by saraphir
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Some of you might remember that I back in 2016 took part in a CAL (crochet along) called ‘Friends Around The World’ (2016). I designed my first square, Sapphire Dream Square, for it and also decided to join the cal and crochet as many of the squares as I could to make my own Friends Around The World Blanket. I found it really rewarding to take part and I learned a lot about how other designers write out patterns and their approaches to designing. You can see my guide to some of the squares here.

I intended to make a blanket from the 20 squares I made, but they ended up in a box for a number of years. The main reason for this was I had moths in my flat and the squares were all made from 100% wool yarn (Drops Alaska), so it seemed best to wait till I move somewhere else before assembling the blanket. My plans to move got delayed indefinitely though, so this autumn/winter (2022) I decided to finally finish the blanket as the moth problem is reduced. As you can see from my other blog posts, I had to tweak some of the squares as they didn’t all have the same stitch count along each side and weren’t the same size. They still weren’t exactly the same, but I managed to join them all with an zipper join and make a border. Here are some photos of the blanket:

Friends around the world blanket
Friends around the world crochet blanket
Friends around the world blanket by Saraphir Designs

It was incredibly satisfactory to finally get it finished! I am definitely a starter rather than a finisher, and have a tendency to have too many projects going at the same time and only finish the small ones. But it was wonderful to get the chance to look back at a time when I had just started out as a designer – assembling it has definitely been a trip down memory lane! I hope you have a look at the squares, some of them are absolutely gorgeous!

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Time to share a few more photos of the squares I made for a cushion for a friend… I do love this combination and might have to play with colours again soon. Pattern is on my blog. ‘Oh lovely spring, are all these flowers for our delight…?’ 🎵🎶🎵 Whatever their ultimate purpose, delightful they are! After the rain…. My website is now all tidied up and up to date and I wrote a blog post about my ‘Friends Around The World Blanket’ as well. You can find links to the patterns on my blog and guide to how I evened out the size differences. You can find it on Saraphir dot com… meta are still blocking me and I can’t find my way around their systems. 😕 You can also check out all the cals on @calcrochetalong I meant to do my work today…. But the cherry blossom is out! Happy Sunday everyone! Hope you’re having a lovely day wherever you are. I’ve spent the morning starting much needed tidying up of my website. This means going through all the posts and making sure all the links are up to date, my name is right and the format is the same. Happy Earth Day. ♥️ I loved these tapestries by @cindysherman at @arosartmuseum in Aarhus. Such incredible detail in the weaving and the thread is unbelievably thin… amazing skill by the weavers. A few more photos of my latest cushion cover…

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