A cat's Banky
here my beloved cat's banky (blanket), it's crocheted with several stitchs, being the 3d shell stitch, star stitch, and two-row block stitch (flat back, texture is on front, sort of mosaic). It's then wrapped in a border of that block stitch and ended with crab stitch (forward version) Other basic stitches are in US terms.
Personally, I quite like the blocks being oriented different directions, and I was able to modify the block stitch into a grid and spell Guinness's name in a block text across the middle!i also used double crochet and half-double crochet sparsely, which created immitations of flower pots under the wavy shell stitch rows, and utilized the color of the yarn very nicely. the whole thing reminds me deeply of the grey lego pegboards and plenty of fun we've had over the years.
Also, it is quite hefty, as the shell stitch is round about 3 rows of yarn all on one row's height, and the two-row block-stitch reaches to the row below. My hope is that it won't fall off him in his sleep lol. It's not finished, not quite. I have to sew in the extra strings, and give it a good, gentle wash/soak.
The yarn used is patons' "Blue ragg" held double, with a [] crochet hook. it took about 20 skeins (50 gram), which divided by 2 for being held double, is 10 of a higher wieght, divided by 2 for 100 gram skeins, is 5 balls of a usual yarn, i suppose. I'm not sure. either way, it was an absolute pleasure to work with, the color change was very exciting to see as I went along. The balls usually lined up, although certain skeins did come with tie-ins that threw it out the window. It's ok, the blanket came out GODDAMN SPLENDID anyways!
I will link to the individual youtube tutorials used.
3d wavy Shell stitch, shown by Naztasia
Star stitch, shown by Squishy & Co.
Unnamed (2 row blocks, flat back textured front) stitch, shown by Hooked By Robin
forward Crab Stitch Border, shown by Change Path Crochet
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