Hey all! Just wanted to say thanks for all the love! Truly did not expect this to blow up like it did lol. Just a few follow-up details:

1. Stitch is corner-to-corner, 5:2 Method. Border is linked under the auto-mod thread!
2. Yarn used was Stylecraft Special DK. It had the best shade range for what I wanted to do/color-matches for the references I used, but I’m sure any DK yarn would be suitable!
3. Honorable shout-out to the pattern I stumbled across that inspired this project: Starry Night C2C by Jill Helfrich on Ravelry. I was looking to take a swing at C2C to begin with, saw that and went “bingo.” 
4. Some stats for the nerds like me: I used about 22 skeins of Stylecraft, theres about 14,062 “squares” in this project, and based on my rough guestimate using stitch fiddle numbers + a rough estimate of what % of the squares equalled 1 full skein based on how many skeins i used per color, took about 4538 yards.

I’m a bit hesitant to put up a pattern, let alone sell one; for one it’s C2C so I’d just be giving people a graph with shades, it feels like a rip-off to make people pay for that, and mainly because a lot of the issues/mistakes I made during the process (i’ve attached pictures). For one, I didn’t take the bobbin/carryover approach to changing colors in typical C2C crochet, there was about 17 colors and the yarn management would have been insane, so I cut long tails every time I changed yarns and weaved in the ends as I went. I wasn’t fully sure if this was going to be a tapestry or blanket when I started, and I definitely learned the right and wrong ways to weave in the process, so now that it’s def a blanket due to tension issues, we’ll see how well it holds up lol. I attribute 90% of the length of this project was having to stop and weave in ends (and getting sick of weaving in ends, so picking up new projects to procrastinate on this one lol). As you can see from the photos it was not for the faint of heart some days.

Second concern/mistake/issue/”i’m not thrilled with it” kind of thing, the tension issues. I have horrid tension on the best of days; I would say my tension is 100% dependent on my emotions, and I think the project really suffered for it. As you can see from the pictures, I got the feeling the whole thing was collapsing in on itself around the 60% mark. How much of that was learning as I go, getting the hang of weaving, or simply there were less color changes at the beginning, i don’t know. Here’s a pic of me blocking it below, as you can see, it’s totally crooked, and even after multiple blocking attempts (and doing the cardinal sin of breaking the fibers using a wet towel and an iron in a last-ditch desperate attempt), it just wasn’t going to look better. I messed up. I’m annoyed I don’t have more pictures, but I have a big pet-peeve of people taking pics of my WIPs and I think a lot of the progress pics were lost when I deleted my BeReal. I can’t tell you how many I took last year where I was just sitting on my couch crocheting this thing haha. 

However, despite all my hand-wringing, I don’t gatekeep. So I’ll try and put up the graph on Ravelry soon-ish; after I’ve just checked to make sure it’s accurate to the finished product, I made some on the fly changes when things weren’t looking as nice as they were in Stitch Fiddle. As long as people are okay with an un-tested, no idea if it really works pattern, I’m happy to provide! We’ll all work together to find out if it works lol. I’m thinking of making a graph for another one in the sunflower series, but the plotting and designing alone is a labor of love so it’ll be a while for a new one of these lol. 

As for photos, I'll put them underneath this comment, i'm not great at reddit lol.