Stash Busting Project 2013: April Project

For April I pulled out a big project of the cupboard I keep my yarn in. A project that has been hiding in there for about 1.5 years.

It really has been that long?

It is absolutely beautiful though but it is a sort of a nightmare project when you are as slow a crocheter like me.

Blankets take me about a year.

But here it is:  My African Flower Hexagon Blanket (Ravelry entry here and original pattern in Afrikaans here )

 

 As you can see, I have almost completed a third of the blanket before hiding it away. It is a monster project with all the colours.
At first it went pretty quickly as I was crocheting the flowers during my commuting time. But I hated the joining. I absolutely did not like working the acrylic yarn with my Clover crochet hooks. It sqeaked.
I have tested two flowers with my Etimo hook and it is so much better. The yarn glides more easily over the hook.

I am really hopeful that I will complete this blanket during the next month! Fingers crossed.

The big start was on Thursday as I layed out all of the rows up front to make a nice distribution of all the flowers.

I tied per row all the flowers together with a string and bagged them with a piece of paper stating the row number. I think this will help speeding up the project.

This is how it looks right now.

I will keep you updated with this absolutely beautiful blanket!