The Big Bang Theory Blanket Part 2

Ok so having chosen the colours which I think I can see in the blanket and ordered more black for joining I am ready to begin. If you haven't seen part1 it is here.  Just a recap on the colours:

I am going to use Stylecraft willow, parchment, lemon, aster, pale rose, gold, wisteria, lipstick, plum and black.

Looking at  my pattern I worked out that I needed 18 squares in plum and lipstick and 18 squares in  lipstick and plum for the triangle patterns on the blanket and 8 squares in parchment and black for the corners. They are the definite elements you see in the picture of the blanket.

143 granny squares later...

This was not as difficult as I anticipated as once I started laying the squares the pattern seemed to form by itself... I did not in the end follow my grid pattern to the letter.

After all the squares were carefully picked up in the order they would be joined the fun begins!
( The 'post it's' have the number of the rows on.)

I used the join as you go method and it took an hour for each row of 11 squares!

Half way!

Approx 40 hours of work and 12 balls of Stylecraft later I had a blanket 110x130cms which I am very pleased with.

The border is 5 rows of tr (granny stitch), 3 rows of tr (granny stitch) in black, 1 row in lemon and last row in black.

This blanket is as close as I could get to the original. I have tried to incorporate the pattern elements, style and colours I could see but it could never be identical. I also made it smaller in size as that size blanket Sheldon is under was quite a daunting prospect on top of trying to replicate something that did not have clear pictures.







 xxx Eirawen