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Block a Week CAL 2014

Block a Week CAL 2014 – Betty’s Blanket Colour List

Quite a few people have requested the total yardage (per colour) to complete the Block a Week CAL 2014. When I first started out I had no idea that people would want to copy some (or all) of the colours I used, so I didn’t really keep a tally. Lucky for me Betty Byers made her squares in the same colours as me (well, 95 % of them), and she did keep a tally.

Betty's Blanket Crochet Afghan Block a Week CAL 2014

The photos in this post are Betty’s photos and they are being used with her permission.

Even though we have used the same colours, our blankets have turned out very different.  Betty has included Sophie’s Garden in hers.  She has had to leave out 4 squares to accommodate Sophie.

Betty's Blanket Crochet Afghan Block a Week CAL 2014

Betty has joined her blanket using a Flat Braid Ch-3 Join in Saffron.  You can find a very clear tutorial for the Flat Braid join HERE.  The tutorial is by Margaret MacInnis, designer of See How They Run (Week 23), Anticipation Mystery Square (Week 29), and Purifying Puritans (Week 45).

Betty's Blanket Crochet Afghan Block a Week CAL 2014

Betty has added a beautiful border (of her own design) to her afghan, the instructions for which can be found HERE.  I am still undecided about what border I am going to add…

Betty's Blanket Crochet Afghan Block a Week CAL 2014

So without further ado, I will share the amounts of yarn Betty recorded using.

Details

  • Yarn:  Stylecraft Special DK from the Lucy Pack or Colour Pack (Double Knit/Light Worsted Weight/#3).
  • Specifics:  Each ball/skein weighs 100 g and contains 297 meters of yarn.  That works out to 3 meters of yarn per gram.
  • Amount:  17 x 100 g balls/skeins for the squares and 5 x 100 g balls/skeins for the joining and border.
  • Hook: 4 mm crochet hook (US G/6  UK 8) – I recommend Clover Amour Crochet Hooks

Notes:  This afghan can be done using the “Lucy Pack” if all colours are used equally and you purchase additional yarn for the joins and border.  We have not used all colours equally.  If I had to restart my afghan I would have chosen to use only 8 colours:  Saffron, Sherbet, Fondant, Pomegranate, Turquoise, Meadow, Magenta, and Lipstick.  You will notice that the earlier squares used all the colours, whereas the later squares used predominantly these 8 colours.

Betty's Blanket Crochet Afghan Block a Week CAL 2014

Block a Week CAL 2014 – Betty’s Beautiful Blanket

48 Squares and 1 Sophie’s Garden

Stylecraft Special Double Knit Colours

Squares and Sophie’s Garden

Betty’s Beautiful Border

Continuous Flat Braid Join

Total Yarn Needed Per Colour

Saffron 150 g 40 g 175 g 365 g
Sherbet*** 300 g 40 g   340 g
Fondant 130 g     130 g
Clematis 25 g     25 g
Pomegranate 150 g 50 g   200 g
Turquoise 225 g 75 g   300 g
Meadow 175 g 40 g   215 g
Shrimp 25 g     25 g
Spring Green 20 g     20 g
Wisteria* 40 g     40 g
Lavender* 40 g     40 g
Plum 25 g     25 g
Magenta 240 g 80 g   320 g
Aster** 30 g     30 g
Cloud*** 30 g     30 g
Aspen** 40 g     40 g
Lipstick 50 g     50 g
TOTAL 1695 g 175 g 325 g 2195 g

*  Wisteria and Lavender are quite close to each other, so you might consider using only one of them instead of both.

** Aster and Aspen aren’t as close to each other in shade, but you can consider using only one of them instead of both.  You could also cut both of them out and use Turquoise instead. 

***  Sherbet and Cloud are similar, so if you are looking for another way to trim the amount of colours, use Sherbet instead of Cloud.

If you need help converting these weights to meters (or yards), FreshStitches has got an awesome tutorial HERE.

My blanket is still a work in progress.  All my Foursquares have now been joined using the (Sc, ch 1, skip 1) Join.  Now I just need to figure out if I want to use Betty’s Beautiful Border, or if I want something more simple.

Here’s a peek of what it looks like so far.

Block a Week CAL 2014

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Dedri

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39 Comments December 6, 2014

Comments

  1. Misha says

    November 12, 2024 at 11:22 am

    I am in loveee with these patterns, do you have by any chance the details for the white and blue one with all the required yarns?

    Reply
    • Jenny Lowman says

      November 20, 2024 at 7:42 pm

      Sharon Blignaut’s blue and white version details can be found on her Ravelry page
      HERE

      :)

  2. Marietta says

    December 23, 2022 at 6:53 pm

    OMGosh! Your colors are so beautiful and your talent is beyond words. I downloaded all of Sophies Universe a couple of years ago and then lat month I went ahead a bought the book with hopes that you will be rewarded for some of your hard work and your sacrificial sharing.

    I am so far up to a beginning-intermedite chrocheter but have decided the only way to push myself is to move forward to the next level is to do something harder than what I have been doing; so I am putting Sophie’s Universe on my calander to start in the new year with a goal to finish in the next year. I will have my other easier projects in the works to clench my frustration.

    Wish me luck-I am so looking forward to pushing myself forward, and when I saw the tuorials available I decided I could do this!

    Warm regards; Happy Holidays, and Happy Hooking.

    Reply
    • Jenny Lowman says

      December 28, 2022 at 3:20 pm

      Marietta, we hope you love your journey with Sophie’s a universe as much as we have! One of my favourites, I have to say! Sophie’s Dream as well! :)

  3. Phillipa Godfrey says

    February 28, 2021 at 10:37 pm

    hello Dedri

    The lionk for the colours you used to make the Sophies Garden block in the Block a Week cAL 2014 no longer exists. Can you send me the colour list.

    Many thanks

    Phillipa x

    Reply
    • Jenny says

      March 4, 2021 at 8:04 am

      Hi Phillipa. The list of colours, and exactly how much you need for the Garden itself is listed in the post. They are from the Attic 24 original colour pack which can be found in the Attic 24 store via Wool Warehouse.

      Hope that helps.

      BW
      Jenny

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