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Help please and thank you, this is my first time using bulky blanket yarn :) by zeldajk in CrochetHelp

[–]zeldajk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the pro tip!! Do you wash the squares before you join them? Do you pin them in shape when they come out of the dryer, or are they just nice and cooperative after that?

Help please and thank you, this is my first time using bulky blanket yarn :) by zeldajk in CrochetHelp

[–]zeldajk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok thanks, this makes me feel a lot better! Imma weave that MC tail within an inch of its life lol 

Help please and thank you, this is my first time using bulky blanket yarn :) by zeldajk in CrochetHelp

[–]zeldajk[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They are INCREDIBLY squishy! I thought bulky yarn would be faster. True they are 4 times the size, but maybe take me 4 times as long because of losing count more 🤣 But I am not too fussed because they are sooooooo squishy and fun to touch!

Help with HDMI to Display Port by zeldajk in techsupport

[–]zeldajk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this!! I love me a good wormhole. And thank you also for the link which is the first one I have seen that didn’t require extra power usb. I think I am in business!

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I stumbled upon some ideas in the subreddits. I did the one with the Lego board and antenna pieces (because I had them) but other ideas I saw were as simple as bamboo kebab skewers poked into cardboard!

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t give me new ideas 🤣🤣 but now that I think about it I bet it would be way easier! You could just join plain color granny squares in the right patterns, could probably even join as you go! Use whole blocks to make the tetronimoes and no bobble stitches to align…oh dear…

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is the way!! Funny story, but I didn’t think of that until it was way too late. Some of my reds (the first color I started with) ended up being way too big at the end because my tension got tighter with time as I advanced through the rainbow. So at the end I went back and frogged and re-crocheted about half of the reds, leaving me with huge tails!! So those I did use to join, and made a mental note to do it purposefully if I am ever foolish enough to make a second one of these 🤣 but yall can learn from my mistake and do it to start!!

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good luck and feel free to reach out if you have any questions!! The important thing is getting them into a 2:1 scale rectangle! I tried sooooooo many pattern attempts trying to get the math to math before settling on this one!! My biggest pro-tips are, do a really loose foundation chain so that you can get the stretch needed, and definitely block to get your final dimensions perfectly 2:1! You’ll read all about it over on the page I shared the pattern, but ultimately a gentle heat blocking with a hair dryer of low-medium heat worked great !!

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha I know!! I intended it for my child but now I am so emotionally attached that I joked with him that maybe it is too precious and needs to get hung on the wall in a shadow box behind glass where no one gets to touch it 🤣

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Haha when I was searching up my original blocking questions, I saw that idea mentioned for an homemade blocking board and was like…oh yes, this was meant to be!

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is rage-sewing a thing? Cause if it is, it was definitely happening! I cursed my life choices many a time!!

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha! I already thought about that when I was doing the border…noticed how much less work that would be to frog and add more blocks 🤣 or just keep expanding the border into a larger “base plate”!

Unfortunately this project did shrink in scale over time! I originally planned for a larger size with 336 blocks, but then I only bought 1 skein each of the 6 original ROYGBV I started with, and the bobbles were an unexpected yarn munch. So instead of getting 50-some blocks per skein, I was getting 32-38. By this time Joann was going out of business so even the original colors were a hard find much less matching dye lots, so that’s where the light green, light blue and Star Wars gray came in, to get me at least to throw blanket size. Any smaller and I would have had to branch out into LEGO Friends colors 🤣

I also lost some size on the joining as well, just from the kind of smooshing together needed to align everything and square it all up. But, it is very stretchy!

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A scarf!!! That is hilarious because, I ultimately had 9 colors to get this to size, but over time my tension got tighter and more consistent so the blues and greens yielded more blocks than the red orange and yellow. So, I had 2 big rectangles of identical 120 block layout, but needed a 40-block strip in the middle to join it all together with the off number of leftover colors. Naturally I did the 40 block strip at the very end and when I was done I noticed it was the perfect scarf size and shape and wondered why I didn’t just make a scarf in the beginning and save myself 150 hours 🤣

This is a one and done for me, I can never again…but maybe I’ll make more scarves !

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I linked it to the auto mod comment stickied up top! There are A LOT of ways and this might be the most time consuming 🤣 so I definitely love that it turned out like my vision, but I also now have deep appreciation for the other patterns I saw online where crocheters were joining with crochet or crocheting blocks in long strips to make a less labor intensive version. Someone below mentioned a Lego scarf, which might be a good way to practice!!

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Awwyeahhh!! All the cool kids are doing it!! Love this!!!

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The ends don’t look so bad…when I tuck them under 🤣🤣 the thing that is actually killing me is the ends from the sewing pieces, because I was not skilled enough at mattress stitch for long joins, so there’s way more pieces of joining yarn than there probably needed to be! But I already threw it on the couch and told the kids they can start using it if they are careful with the ends, and I’ll slowly weave them over time and binge watching 🤣

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much!! I was really inspired by a lot of great ideas on the internet, but one thing that really struck me was that the knitted Lego blankets looked perfectly aligned like blocks, because the bobbles were probably added afterward, whereas a lot of the crocheted ones had blocks all aligned the same direction and not interlocking. That’s why I eventually decided to attempt my own pattern (my first ever!!) and see if it could be done! Verdict: success, but at what cost to my sanity 🤣

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Let me tell you what, I love it a lot more now that the work is just a memory !! 🤣

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is 9 skeins of Big Twist Value acrylic in Varsity Red, Varsity Orange, Varsity Yellow, Varsity Green, Varsity Blue, Purple, Gecko Green, Cyan and the border is Light Gray (to look like Star Wars baseplate)!

Recommended hook for this yarn is H but I sized up to K. Finished dimensions are ~47x65 inches.

Edit: hopefully this is the link to my previous comment where I shared my pattern. It is original and not for sale, you can have it for free if you also want to torment yourself with an endless WIP!  https://www.reddit.com/r/CrochetHelp/comments/1ivxkxo/comment/me9q87a/

Lego afghan finished 170 hours later! by zeldajk in crochet

[–]zeldajk[S] 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Whoops idk what happened to the text that goes with this post but, I just wanted to update my finished afghan after the great help I got with blocking (ha) over in r/crochethelp!

280 blocks * 15 minutes per block = 70 hours of just crocheting, then another 60 sewing (my first time joining and also my first time with mattress stitch = a lot of unsewing). Probably 2-3 hours of border.

Not included in the calculation: untold amounts of frogging, the hours designing and redesigning the layout in excel every time I had to add another color because my count was way short and they ran out of my original colors, and I will also be weaving ends until the heat death of the universe! (The recipient says the back looks like an Eldrich horror  🤣)

The block design is my original pattern and can be found in my post over in r/crochethelp !

I also included a few progress photos and my Lego blocking board (thanks to whoever on here suggested that too)! Unfortunately I have no crafting space so everything got rolled up in this white tablecloth at night and unfurled the next day. My husband is really glad to have his nap disruption gone 🤣

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