Make: Fleecy Turtle Blanket

I'm not the only member of my family who loves a blanket - my sister is also a blanket fan. This is perhaps unsurprising given she is at uni in Scotland, which is Northern and cold...

In a Deramores sale I found this James C. Brett Fluffy Chunky yarn for about £2 for each 50g ball. A search on Ravelry for a chunky crochet blanket and I came across this turtle-design baby blanket, which I thought was very cute! I've never crocheted hexagons before, so this would be a good challenge.

Although I used the pattern as inspiration, I didn't follow the complicated hexagon pattern described, mainly because the fluffiness of the yarn meant you couldn't even see individual stitches, let alone if it was a "DC" or a "DCBP"... Instead, I used pairs of double crochet with one chain between each nodule. Each hexagon has two rounds of green, one round of blue, then uses a flat-braid join in white as a border and to join the hexagons together.

The neat mathematical part of my brain really loves the way they tessellate so neatly together! I made 63 hexagons in total to form the body of the turtle. Then using the green, I added some legs, a head and a tiny tail at the bottom - to make a pretty good turtle, if you ask me!

 

In total, I used two balls of white, three of blue and five of green. £20 of yarn to make a very warm, very snuggly, very special one-off blanket for a very special sister. Happy Birthday Schwesterchen!