I couldn’t wait til Friday!
Over the weekend I finished my chevron blanket and baby star blanket.
The star border only took about 20 minutes so I’m not really sure why I’d been avoiding it for so long.

After 2 weeks of almost entirely working with chunky yarn, it felt very strange to go back to baby DK yarn. A bit like working with dental floss!
I also finished the chevron afghan, after only two weeks. That was quite a bit quicker than I expected so I’m really pleased, I’ll be able to hand it over to my friend this week. I really hope he likes it.
So about the blanket. I love stats, so if you don’t then just admire the photos 😉
This afghan weighs juuust over 1.5 kg (1517g if you want to be accurate)

It measures 142cm x 181cm (it’s taller than me!)

The yarn is Painbox Simply Chunky in Vanilla Cream, Soft Fudge, Slate Grey, and Coffee Bean
It consists of 101 rows double crochet, and 2 rows single crochet with picots at the points

Each cream section is 8 rows of straight dc
Each section of contrast colour is back loop only dc, alternating 6 and 9 rows.

The side of each chevron is made of 13 stitches (my favourite number)
Each dc row contains 180 stitches
The total stitch count for the whole thing is 18,544 stitches.
18,544
I can’t believe I just made nearly 20,000 stitches….

I was planning to calculate the number of hours I spent on this, but after having to restart it 5 times to get the chevrons to actually chevron, I decided not to. Let’s just say every spare hour I had over the last 2 weeks.
So, does anyone have any tips for folding/rolling a mahoosive blanket so I can wrap it up before giving it to my friend? Or how to take good photos of something so large? Because I’m struggling!
Hannah
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