Bobbling along!

Good Morning,

I'm sharing some bobble love today; I'm up to 27 rounds on my Granny Bobble Blanket and it's now big enough to keep me cozy as I crochet - very welcome as it has been blowing a gale and hurling down odd showers of hailstones here in Cumbria for the last few days.

It will need to be blocked to produce a perfect square, but for a general throw it is not too far off - I don't think I will bother as it pulls into shape well enough for me!  I'm loving it too much to finish now, but I think that I will tweak the pattern and try again when this is completed.

I'm quite fond of the back too - but the bobbles win every time!

Have a great weekend and happy crocheting!
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Granny Bobble Blanket

With the nights drawing in and the evenings getting chillier, this is the perfect time to make blankets! I haven't made a blanket since my granny stripe last winter; I enjoyed making it so much, with each stripe subtly changing the whole and keeping me going until I was quite disappointed to finish it...

I would like to enjoy creating another one in the same way, but I don't really want another striped blanket, nor do I want a blanket made from small squares/hexagons with fiddling bits of colour changes. So my thoughts inevitably took me to a giant granny, but with a twist!

I love bobbles, so this afternoon found me experimenting to create a granny made from bobbles and I am finally happy with the pattern. It is quite a stash buster and uses a lot of yarn, but it makes a wonderfully thick, cosy fabric – perfect for winter. I will be plotting my progress of the blanket on this blog, but in the meantime I share the pattern below.

Granny Bobble Blanket

**EDITED 5 SEPTEMBER 2012**

A FEW PEOPLE FOUND THAT THEIR WORK DID NOT LAY FLAT.  I DID REMOVE THE PATTERN FOR A WHILE, BUT HAD MANY REQUESTS TO PUT THE PATTERN BACK UP AGAIN, SO I AM PUBLISHING IT AGAIN - I CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT YOUR WORK WILL LIE FLAT - IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS DO NOT TRY THIS PATTERN.

 

Oddments of dk yarn

4.5mm hook

This pattern is written in American crochet terms.

Abbreviations -

Sl st – slip stitch

ch – chains

dc – double crochet

MFB – Ch 3, 3dc in same stitch/space. Drop loop from hook; insert hook from front to back in top of Chain 3, grab dropped loop and pull through stitch.

MB – 4dc in next stitch. Drop loop from hook; insert hook from front to back in top of 1^st dc, grab dropped loop and pull through stitch.

Ch 4 & sl st into first ch to form a ring.

Row 1: Into ring; MFB, ch 4, *MB, ch 4, rep from * 2 times more, sl st into top of ch 3. Fasten off

Row 2: with a new colour join into any of the corner spaces(I start in a corner as it gives me more stitches to work over the end of the new yarn – then I don't need to embroider the end in later).

MFB, ch 4, MB (first corner made), ch 3, *(MB, ch 4, MB) in next space, ch 3; rep from * 2 times more. Sl st into 1^st bobble, fasten off.

**EDITED, 5th Feb 2012 - As there was a problem with the middle of the blanket not laying flat I have therefore changed the beginning of the pattern.  Start with a magic circle and into that work - MFB, ch 4, MB (first corner made), ch 3, *(MB, ch 4, MB) in next space, ch 3; rep from * 2 times more. Sl st into 1^st bobble, fasten off.    Continue with Row 3 below...  Basically I've taken out the first row and the pattern now begins with the second row in a magic circle.  I do apologise to any of you who have already started this and found the problem - I was too quick to share! sorry....

Row 3: with a new colour join into any corner space. MFB, ch 4, MB into corner space, ch 3, MB into next space, ch 3, *(MB, ch 4, MB) into corner space, ch 3, MB in next space, ch 3; rep from * 2 times more. Sl st into 1^st bobble, fasten off.

Continue in this pattern, doing 4 chains between each corner bobbles and 3 chains between all other side bobbles until the desired size has been reached.

I hope you like this pattern, and I would love to know if you are bobbling along with me.

Happy crocheting

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