Winter Wonderland – My colours part 6

Part 6 is the final part of the Winter Wonderland Cal, the instructions for the border.

It is a double border that will hide all the yarn ends.
If you don‘t like double borders you can of course chose another variant. In connection with the border of my Geometrics blanket, I recently wrote how I feel about it. I don’t want to repeat myself here now, only so much: I love double borders! They are a great finish for a blanket and absolutely worth the effort. At least in my opinion.

Unfortunately this time I had some difficulties with my slip stitch round. I had planned to make a two coloured border with a back layer in Lipstick and front layer in a mix of Graphite and Lipstick. So I thought a slip stitch round in red would look nice. I started my slip stitch round in Lipstick – and had to start over, and over, and over again but didn’t get it neat.

I have recently noticed that there are differences in the thickness of acrylic yarns, even within a brand. In any case, the thread of my Lipstick seemed to be thicker and this may have caused the problems. I don’t know. My solution was to switch to Silver, so that I at least had some contrast at the top and the bottom side. I need new glasses and this made it easier to identify the stitches when working the first round.

From then on, everything went smoothly. Until I finished the first round of the front layer. Ana’s way of working a double border leaves a narrow line of the slip stitch round visible right next to the border. The Silver looked good combined with the grey parts on top and bottom of the blanket but I didn’t like the look in the darker parts of the sides at all. So I started over again and simply worked through both loops on the long sides.

If you follow my colour way I would advise that you use red for the slip stitch round! If you have the same problems as I had, I’d suggest that you use Grey or Graphite but not Silver or White. But keep in mind that Grey and Graphite will be hardly visible on the top and bottom sides.

Long overdue update, June 2024: I’ve finally redesigned the documents with my colour scheme and combined the download into one document. There you will also find the total amount of yarn required. Details on the yarn consumption are listed in this post.
Please don’t be surprised that the files look a little different, the content is the same.

Have fun with this last section of this beautiful pattern 💕

More Winter Wonderland posts:

Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 1
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 2
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 3
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 4
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 5
Winter Wonderland Round up