Crochet Project #5: Larksfoot Crochet Blanket

20 Mar Crochet Project #5: Larksfoot Crochet Blanket

Another project done! I’m very happy with how this Larksfoot blanket turned out. And it worked up pretty quickly as well, for a blanket.

If you are not familiar with a Larksfoot, it’s as if a granny cluster became a little bit fancier. It’s a pretty simple stitch, perfect for when you want something that doesn’t require a lot of thought. Your chain needs to be a multiple of four plus three, and a turning chain.

Let’s quickly recap what I already said about it in my February WIPs post:

• It’s a free pattern from Yarnspirations with some modifications. These modifications include:
  • A 5.0 mm hook instead of a 5.5 mm hook. That is what I needed to get gauge.
  • Red Heart Comfort 454-gram skeins of yarn in three colours instead of two skeins each of the three Bernat Premium yarn colours.
  • Different yarn colours.
  • A starting chain of 148, instead of 145, to create 147 stitches plus one chain for a turning chain.
  • No chain-three as the first double crochet. Simply chain one, turn, and a double crochet in the first stitch/double crochet. I am hugely not a fan of the gap created at the sides of the fabric when a chain three is the first double crochet.
  • The pattern doesn’t say whether to break the yarn after each two-row section or to carry it up the side. I carried it up the side because I’m not weaving in a million ends.

The finished blanket is 134 rows and measures 119 cm by 150 cm (47 in by 59 in), so slightly smaller than what the pattern said it would be. There is a total of 19, 698 stiches, not counting the turning chains.

The time it took to complete the blanket was 32 hours and 31 minutes and 45 seconds which is just a hair more time than it took to stitch my V-Stitch blanket. The yarn was on clearance so that only cost $35.47 CAD. But with labour (33 hours at a minimum wage of $17.85/hr CAD), the minimum retail value of this blanket is $624.52 CAD.

I liked that this project was mindless enough that I could watch something while working on it with just enough variety through colour changes that I didn’t get bored with it after 10 rows.

Next, I am going to wash it and treat it with some Bounty fabric softener to remove that Red Heart feeling* before delivering to the family member for whom it was made.

What WIP did you recently finish? Tell me all about it in the comments below

*Red Heart Comfort is super soft compared to Super Saver but it’s still Red Heart. If you know, you know.