Anniversary Blanket   

Celebrating 10 Years of Stitches

This year we are celebrating 10 years of projects on the channel Ophelia Talks Crochet and I have taken a look at what we have made over the years. We have created blankets, wearables, small items, useful things and fun items. But mainly what I liked about designing every single project is the fact that with crochet you only use a handful of stitches but combine those stitches in different ways and you will be able to make the most unique looks, the most unique projects and the most unique blankets. 

For this blanket I am going to be looking at some of those wonderful stitch combinations that I came up with throughout the 10 years and I am going to let them feature once again in our blanket, but not just like that. I am going to pour them into a very special square: the Anna square.

It is the square that my grandma Anna loved making! She must've made hundreds and hundreds of these squares!

She really loved making this square and when I was younger and I saw her making the squares I knew that a blanket was ‘in the making’ and she very often gifted them to friends and family whenever there was a new baby. 

To me this is quite an iconic crochet item so I wanted to use this square and redesign some of my stitches that we have used in the past to fit within the shape of this square.  

We will be reusing some of the stitches we have done over the last 10 years like e.g. the Autumn Walk blanket, the Greenway Crochet-A-Long, the Lizzie blanket, the Miss Potter cardigan and the Venice cardigan. I have redesigned the stitches used in those projects to fit into the shape of the Anna Square. 

I have also looked at the colours we have used over the 10 years in these particular blankets projects and wearables and these are the colours we are using here in our Anniversary Blanket. 

With this blanket we are looking back over 10 years of stitches but at the same time we are on the threshold of a new era, and I am looking forward to what that will bring. 

The blanket will consist of 54 squares and in each part you will be making 6 of the same square in  a number of different colours. There are 11 parts to this blanket: 9 squares, 1 joining and 1 border. 

Measurements 

1 square measures approx. 18 cm x 19 cm / 7 inch x 7.5 inch 

Blanket Single bed 

With border 121 cm x 178 cm / 47 inch x 70 inch

Weight 1011 g  

Colours 

We are using the Anniversary Blanket Yarn Pack with 15 balls of DK yarn from Stylecraft or Wendy or 16 balls of JCB 100% cotton

Please note 

CH3 at start of the row before turning is a turning chain and counts as a DC and a CH

The amounts in brackets are the amounts of the stitches/boxes/shells needed without the boxes at start and end of row except in the first and last row, and also without the boxes in the row. 

Part 1 

Anna Square  

Row 1     

SK, CH 38, turn, 1DC in the 6th st from the hook, *CH1, sk1st, 1DC in the next st*, repeat *-* to end 

(17 boxes)

Row 2     

CH3, turn, sk1st, *1DC in the next 7 st, CH1, sk1st*,  repeat *-* 4 times in total, 1DC in 2nd CH. 

(4 groups of 7DCs) 

Row 3

CH3, turn, sk1st, *1DC in the next 3 st, CH1, sk1st*,  repeat *-* 8 times in total, 1DC in 2nd CH.  

(8 groups of 3DCs) 

Row 4

CH3, turn, sk1st, *1DC in the next 7 st, CH1, sk1st*,  repeat *-* 4 times in total, 1DC in 2nd CH. 

(4 groups of 7DCs)

Row 5 

CH3, turn, sk1st, 1DC in the next st, *CH1, sk1st, 1DC in the next st*, repeat *-* to end 

(17 boxes)

Row 6 Repeat Row 2

Row 7 Repeat Row 3

Row 8 Repeat Row 4

Row 9 Repeat Row 5

Row 10 Repeat Row 2 

Row 11 Repeat Row 3

Row 12 Repeat Row 4

Row 13 Repeat Row 5

Row 14 Repeat Row 2

Row 15 Repeat Row 3

Row 16 Repeat Row 4

Row 17 Repeat Row 5

Sew in the ends.  

Approx size of square 18 cm x 19 cm / 7 inch x 7.5 inch

Approx weight of square 16g

Happy Crocheting, 

Anja x