Tag: Geometrics Cal

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

The blanket is finished with 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 simply 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 had 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!

The colours for my border

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!

Happy hooking!

Edit, January 2024:
Over the last few days I have revised my posts on the Geometrics Cal and the associated documents. As a supplement, you can now also download my complete colour scheme in one pdf-document here:

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. So there is not much more to say.

This is my part 6 …

Here my colour placement for the last part.

See you next week 💕.

Time flies!
Now it is already week 5 of the Geometrics Cal.
More than half of the blanket is finished. Next week part 6 will follow and part 7 is all about the border.

If you followed the pattern so far you have already worked 163 rows. YAY!

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.

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.

And here my colour placement:

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

This time colour choice was easy. My plan was to make a blanket for hubby that matches my When Summer turns into Fall blanket. It therefore just made sense to use the same colours. Colours that go perfectly together and have an autumnal look. Well …

As I said, I didn’t have a finished colour scheme in mind beforehand, just a rough idea. I wanted to use Parchment as main colour. Copper, Gold and Walnut as accompanying colours and a bit of Lime as an accent. Hm … Things turned out differently …

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. Not only that I didn’t plan my colours in advance, I also did not I pay attention to how Ana arranged her colours. So it happened that when we got to part 3 I realized that I had started somehow wrong.

It wasn’t a good idea to start and end the small separating border (pattern 1) with Parchment, the colour I wanted to use as main colour. As for Overlay Mosaic you have to change colours every row, it made it impossible to use Parchment as background colour for pattern 4! Small mistake, big effect …

As I already used the colour combination of pattern 1 for several times, I didn’t want to change it. 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 …

And 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.

But enough of my look behind the scenes – here my “improvised colour scheme”

See you next week!

The first week of the Cal has already passed and Part 2 was released today.

If you are taking part in the Cal I hope you had a good start! Meanwhile I have seen a lot of lovely Geometrics versions in Anas Facebook group.

This is mine so far …

I used Walnut and Parchment for pattern 3. And I decided to keep the colour combination from the first part for pattern 1.

And here the list to download

See you next week 💕

Please also see

• Geometrics Cal – Sneak Peek
• Geometrics Cal – Part 1