YES. With Graph Paper. And yarn and a crochet hook of course.
It started with a photo of a blanket I saw on Instagram, that someone had made of Mario...you know, the dude who used to fight Donkey Kong by jumping over barrels, and then made it bigger than the Kong himself. Anyway...my kids are into Minecraft....
It started with a photo of a blanket I saw on Instagram, that someone had made of Mario...you know, the dude who used to fight Donkey Kong by jumping over barrels, and then made it bigger than the Kong himself. Anyway...my kids are into Minecraft....
...which led my daughter and me trawling Google Images looking for suitable pics to make a blanket from.
We decided on this:
We decided on this:
For the uninitiated, this is a creeper. Don't ask. Anyway, it lent itself very well to being drawn up on Graph Paper, so off I went.
As you can see, it's no biggie graphing this - all it takes is working out what colours you are going to use, what size you want, and off you go. I should point out that I'm making the blanket in granny squares. There are a hundred altogether for the main pattern, plus as many as you want in a border colour (I'm thinking a really dark green).
Wish me luck! Hopefully I'll remember to take some pics of my work in progress!
As you can see, it's no biggie graphing this - all it takes is working out what colours you are going to use, what size you want, and off you go. I should point out that I'm making the blanket in granny squares. There are a hundred altogether for the main pattern, plus as many as you want in a border colour (I'm thinking a really dark green).
Wish me luck! Hopefully I'll remember to take some pics of my work in progress!