Crocheting my first blanket

So I decided that crocheting animals etc is pretty stressful. Not really stressful but not relaxing. A cool end result but I wanted to find something to crochet where I didn’t have to count the stitches or focus on the different type of stitches. So I decided to crochet a simple blanket. 

I just wanted to use a small amount of stitches and not count them. I didn’t want to do anything fancy. But I still wanted to crochet. I believe if I could find something to stitch that I could just relax doing than it was worth it.

I started googling a simply blanket planet using single crochet stitch. And I found one. It’s simple start off with the first row with a chain stitch and then turn it over and do the rest with a single crochet stitch. Brilliant. So I started crocheting a baby blanket. It didn’t work out. The sides were uneven and the blanket was all different lengths. So I googled and realised after I do a row of single crochet stitches, I have to do one chain stitch at the end before turning over and single crocheting the other side. 

So I started again. Not as a baby blanket but a real size adult blanket for my child. He chose the royal blue yarn which I thought was the right choice. I really had no idea if it would work this time but by adding the chain stitch to every end it seemed to work. 

I spent time whenever I felt like it to crochet the blanket and as it became bigger it grew heavier to crochet. 

It took under two months and about 9 royal blue yarns to create. And then I decided it was finished. I knotted and sewed in the loose yarn bits from adding new yarn and woolah it was finished. 

I have already planned to use the same pattern for my other son’s blanket. Which he chose a different colour for and will also make a pink one for myself. Then I will make a throw for my bed and some scarves. One for every day and some for the kids. So my future of crocheting is looking bright and I definitely don’t have to count stitches so it is relaxing. 

Also a side note, to work out the length do your chain stitches as long as your body and go as wide as you want. 

What crocheting project are you working on now?