Rockman Afghan

The great tadaa.... day has come at last, most of you thought it was going to be the Afghan sampler well no... that one I'm afraid has me seriously stumped, I managed to do the inner rectangle but as for joining the rest I will need lots of time and patience to figure how to do it so that it doesn't look a complete mess but I will get there eventually. 

It's the Rockman CAL which Astri introduced here.

I have to say I have enjoyed making it and I would have completed it ages ago had I not been making other things in between, but you know me I can't just have one thing on my hook at once.

If you haven't tried Tunisian crochet before do give it a go, I found it very soothing making long strips of lovely bright colours.  I was a little alarmed after I had completed the first strip because it seemed all wonky and curly, I couldn't imagine how it could ever be turned into a blanket but once I did the second strip and joined it to the first I was relieved  because the wonkyness disappeared with the joining.

Astri joined her blanket with sc on the wrong side and it does look good but I have to be different so I have my joining sc on the right side because I like it like that.  So the wonkyness disappeared but the curling remained so I thought some serious blocking was in order.  However......

Astri decided to line her blanket, so I thought yes very good idea because although the back wasn't too bad and all the ends had been neatly weaved in I thought because there had been so many ends some were bound to escape eventually so...I backed mine too with bright red fleece which I thought was in keeping with the lovely bright cheerful colours of the blanket.

Then I edged it with two rows of sc and a row of reverse sc and guess what... the curly edges disappeared like magic so no blocking was required.  

 So there you have it one lovely warm, bright and cheerful blanket.

The blanket took 450 grams of yarn and it measures just over one metre square. 
I am pleased to say this blanket was made entirely out of my stash yarn, there is something great about creating something beautiful out of materials that you have just lying about the house no purchase necessary apart from the fleece which was a fleece blanket that I cut to size, bought from my local Poundstretcher for just a couple of pounds.

This is what is left of the yarn, I will call this my what's left in the bag stash and do you know what.... I'm using it all ready. 

See you soon :)