3 String blanket!

3 String blanket!

So I normally have at least a few projects on the go at any one time, which reflects my poor attention span really, but anyway, I found a local shop which was selling this gorgeous wool for £1 a ball and its made in Bradford, my home town so just seemed perfect.  And just had to get it and do this straight away.

Had the idea for this floating around in my head for a while to blend  3 threads together to create a fading colour effect, [ having taken inspiration from here] and thought it would give me a lovely snug thick blanket.   

The wool I used is ‘woolcraft, DK New Fashion’ and for a cheap yarn is very soft and was lovely to work with. The colours I used were red, blue, orange green and purple, although I am unsure of  shades ect, reason for picking these shade? Well they were what they had in the shop but they work very well together!. I used a size 12mm hook to work with. Started with 3 strands of the same colour, then on each round replaced one strand with the next colour, ie I  was working with 3 blue then 2 blue 1 green, then 1 blue 2 green then 3 green, ect, till I began to reach the end of balls and then I replaced with the next colour as one ran out and worked till I ran out of wool.  

In total the blanket just covers my double bed [uk sizing] and took 3 x 100g balls of each colour, so 15 balls in total, I had a little bit left where I was unable to complete a final row. And was a very quick project for me to do. Taking roughly 7 hours of continuous work [did it over around 3 days] however is hard going to work with so had to take several breaks! Completely loved the project though and the end result! Can wait till it goes a bit colder to try I out!