Tag: Geometrics Cal

Part 7 of the Geometrics Cal is out. It‘s the final part, the border.

It is a nice, plain double border. I did it in two colours and used Walnut for the back layer and Copper for the front.

Do you like double borders?

Apparently a lot of people don’t like them. In crochet forums there are repeated complaints about the slip stitch round. After reading all of this, I was really scared of it when I started doing Overlay Mosaic. So I left my fist piece – a little table mat – with a fringe.
Then I switched to the so called Inset Mosaic as you don‘t have to deal with all the yarn ends there. But of course you also need a border for Inset Mosaic. The pattern didn’t suggest any border and I myself had no idea what I could do. Searching for Inspiration I came across a double border that works without slip stitch round and is only based on front post double crochet. I just tried it and the result was quite nice. The border gave a nice drape to the blanket. An acceptable alternative to the classic double border. But I think the front post dc don’t fit every pattern.

At some point the time has come. I did my first double border with a slip stitch start when I was testing Gretchen. As a tester you have no chance to escape, lol.

At first I hade to experiment a little with the tension for my slip stitches and tried several hook sizes. But then: Wow! Since then I am a fan of double borders with slip stitch rounds!! It is such a nice finish, the border looks neat and lays flat. I just love it! And I love my slip stitch round. In my opinion it is a fairy tale that it is complicated and takes forever. After all the work you put into your blanket it is absolutely worth the effort!

Two advices though: either keep your slip stitches a bit relaxed (but not too loose) or go up a hook size AND count your stitches!

Here some more impressions of my finished blanket. Hubby grabbed it and loves it. And I am very pleased of how it turned out myself!

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Happy hooking!

The Geometrics Cal is slowly coming to an end! Today the pattern for the last 48 rows was published. Next week the instructions for the border will follow.

Unfortunately, I can’t tell you much about this wonderful blanket anymore. And I just realized that I don’t have a lot of pictures of this part. Therefore it will be a short post this week.

Here my colour placement for the last part.

I hope you are still enjoying this Cal! See you next week 💕.

Time flies!
Now it is already week 5 of the Geometrics Cal.
Over half of the blanket is already finished. Next week part 6 will follow and in part 7 we are doing the border.

If you followed the pattern you have already worked 163 rows. Congrats!

Part 5 is again a longer part with 52 rows. At first we repeat pattern 4 that we already know from part 3. This is followed by a repetition of pattern 1, then the new pattern 6 and another repetition of pattern 1.

Fortunately I have better photos of part 5 than I had of part 4. When I finished with part 4 we had a bad weather period and there was quite a lot of rain and dark clouds in the sky.

And here is my colour placement. For pattern 4, as in part 3, I used Walnut and Lime. Pattern 6 is done in Copper and Parchment.

If you are looking for the former parts, you will find them here

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

See you next week!

Now it is already week 4 of the Geometrics Cal. The new part was released today.

Part 3 was a relatively big part with 52 rows, wasn’t it? But half of the blanket is almost there. Part 4 will add another 37 rows, so not so much to crochet this week.

This is my part 4. It is the only part where I used some Gold. I absolutely love the combination of Parchment, Copper and Gold.

The list of my colour placement is a littLe bit longer this time. Pattern 5 is worked with 3 colours, not only with two.

And some more impressions of my growing blanket.

See you next week.

Today part 3 of the Geometrics Cal was released in Ana’s Ravelry shop. If you follow the Cal and finished part 2 you have already hooked 73 rows, only 190 rows to go until the border starts.

I have seen a lot of beautiful colour ways in Ana’s Facebook group or on Instagram. And I have to say I am a bit jealous. They all are so beautiful! I always struggle with my choice of colour and picking colours for a new project is definitely not the funniest part for me.

This time I thought it would be easy as I wanted to use the same colours as for my When Summer turns into Fall blanket. Colours that go perfectly together. But this time other things got in my way.

Originally I had planned to follow my own colour scheme with Parchment as main colour. Copper, Gold and Walnut as as accompanying colours and a bit of Lime as an accent.
To save time we tested the pattern part by part, just like a Cal. So when we started I knew only part 1 and part 2 of the pattern. And I have to admit I didn’t plan my colours in advance, nor did I pay attention to how Ana arranged the colours. So it happened that when we got to part 3 I realized that I had started somehow wrong.

I already made the mistake in row 3. Since Overlay Mosaic changes the colour every row I shouldn’t have used my main colour as the start – and thus also as the end – of the small separating border (pattern 1). This meant that I couldn’t use my main colour as the start of the next pattern … Small mistake, big effect …

Normally I would have started over. But when you are testing a pattern time is limited. At this point, I had already been working on my blanket for 9 days and was afraid that I would not be able to make up the time when I start again. I had to improvise …

So it happened that with part 3 my blanket suddenly got a slight retro look. I struggled with it for a long time, but meanwhile I love it and it has a good chance of becoming the most beloved blanket in this house.

So here my “improvised colour scheme”

See you next week!

One week of the Cal has already gone and Part 2 is released today.

I hope that you had a good start and you enjoy the Cal. Meanwhile I have seen a lot of lovely starts in Anas Facebook group.

And this is how my blanket looked at this part.

I did pattern 3 in Walnut and Parchment and decided to keep the colour scheme for pattern 1:

And here the list to download

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See you next week 💕

Please also see

• Geometrics – Sneak Peek
• Geometrics Cal – Part 1