Shadows
Mosaic crochet blanket pattern
£6.20
The dragon casts a shadow as it flies over, blocking the sun from everything that lies beneath it. This pattern shows the unique perspective from above the dragon and its shadow allowing you to witness how the bright colours around become darkness wherever the dragon flies. Shadows comes with two patterns, one with the dragon and its shadow and one with just the background pattern.
Difficulty level is medium
This is a chart based pattern only.
4 downloadable patterns are provided
1) Shadows with dragon in a screen friendly version
2) Shadows with dragon in a printer friendly version
3) Shadows background pattern in a screen friendly version
4) Shadows background pattern in a printer friendly version.
There are several special stitches that have additional instructions and videos you can follow to help learn them.
In the picture above I used black and graphite both from the Stylecraft Special double knit range. The main colour is an ombre cotton/acrylic yarn, colour number 115 in 4ply purchased from Agnes World Ombre Yarn www.ombreyarn.com
Total weight of lap blanket 1095g/3510 metres
Ombre colour number 115 yarn = 345g/1300 metres
Black yarn = 600g/1768 metres
Graphite yarn = 150g/442 metres
Size 135cms x 95cms
Hook size 3.5
200 stitches x 300 rows
The colour changes from the ombre yarn shown in the photos was achieved by buying two cakes of ombre yarn (500 metre and 800 metre) and working from the inside out on one cake and the outside in on the second cake, this then gives the effect of yellow, orange, pink, blue, green, blue, pink, orange, yellow and end. If you use a single cake (1300 metres) your colour change will go from yellow, orange, pink, blue, green and end. The pattern has a few more rows than you will probably need to get to the end of a cake (I finished at row 296).
The pattern would also work well using different colours from the Stylecraft Special double knit range by changing the colour after each shadow line across the pattern. As the shadow lines are wavy this would result in 3 different colours being used on some lines.
This is supplied as a digital pattern only and is not eligible for refund