Charity blanket #2- Sixty Million Trebles (First c2c)

I have completed my second blanket for Sixty Milion Trebles. (Find out more information about this charity Here).

This is a 36x36 inch blanket made by crocheting corner to corner (c2c). After struggling with the first blanket being so heavy to handle and my yarn holding finger getting tired I used my DIY Crochet Accessories for assistance.

I have never tried a corner to corner blanket like this, I love it. It worked up a lot faster then my Charity Granny Square blanket. I love the colours and I quite like how random it is aswell.

As I have never made a corner to corner blanket before I didn't know what pattern to do. It would annoy me if the pattern didn't finish perfectly when I got to 36 inches. I probably could have worked it out, if I could be bothered, but nah. So instead I used a Random Number Generator to choose the number of rows of each colour for me. I think it turned out really nice, and no annoyance of a pattern not being perfect.

Anyway enough blabbering here it is:

This blanket has added 22,384 trebles to the 60 million trebles count. We are currently on 23 million trebles!

I am planning on making more charity blankets and I have some patterns in mind for even more. So much to do, not enough time to do it! 

Hook off. 

DIY Crochet Accessories

The past few weeks I've been concentrating on making crochet blankets for the charity sixty million trebles and I am really not used to making projects this big. I normally make Amigurumi or other smaller type projects. So making larger projects is something new to me and it was putting a strain on my 'Yarn holding finger' which I have never really had much experience of before. Luckily I had already made a finger saver (find the pattern for my finger saver Here).

The finger saver has been a literal finger saver and after messing around with it for a while I realised I could change the tension with it! I am not the brightest spark so if this is nothing new to those who crochet then accept my apologies.

So weaving the Yarn through the finger saver once like this:

Gives very low tension which was not enough tension for my liking so I thought what would happen if I weave the Yarn through it more, surely the tension would increase, so I gave it a whirl:

Alas it worked, the tension was increased. This felt quite comfortable for this project but I decided to weave more to see what happened...again more tension, too much for this project but it could be useful later on. I'm quit glad I tried this out because now I can crochet for much longer with a nice tension without my finger wanting to give up.

The other thing I have just started to do is use a bowl with a bulldog clip attached to it as a Yarn bowl:

I have never needed a Yarn bowl before due to small projects but wow did this make life a lot easier.

So that's two accessories I am currently using to help with my bigger charity projects and I have made both from stuff I had lying around the house!

Hook off.

Update: see the finished blanket seen in this post Here