Living far from family has its challenges, so I'm grateful to the people in my church who have helped me out and included me in their family events. I decided to surprise three of these families with an afghan for Christmas.For this blanket, I knew that I wanted to use navy because I knew that would go with their decor, but I had some trouble picking a second color. I finally settled on using a lighter shade of blue. When I went through the first book of 30 stitches, I had two favorite stitches: 1 and 13. For this afghan I used stitch 13. It's a very fast stitch that looks much more complicated than it really is. The color pattern is basically a large block of navy, then three stripes of light blue repeated.
Color Pattern:
16 rows of navy, (2 rows light blue, 2 rows navy, 2 rows light blue, 2 rows navy, 2 rows light blue, 16 rows navy) repeated
Pattern:
Chain 182, then work stitch 13 following color pattern until satisfied with length. For me this was four sets of stripes. Then add this border:
Round 1: sc around, 3 sc in corner (navy)
Round 2: dc around, 5 dc in corner (navy)
Round 3: sc around, 3 sc in corner (navy)
Round 4: sc around, 3 sc in corner (pale denim)
Round 5: sc around, 3 sc in corner (navy)
Round 6: dc around, 5 dc in corner (navy)
Round 7: sc around, 3 sc in corner (navy)
I made this in I Love this Yarn in Navy and Pale Denim with a J hook.
