This blanket pattern is so CONFUSING!! Please help

hillarylmt wrote

on Dec 9, 2008 2:05 PM

http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/70229AD.html

I have finished the first two squares and am to the part where I am supposed to join them, here....

Fasten off.

Also, after I join the first two squares, do I fasten off and start square 3? And if so, how do I join that one. I just don't get it!!

Hillary

PaulineL wrote

on Dec 10, 2008 1:07 AM

It's a cute blanket, but those instructions! Tsk, tsk.

That photo is the only clue about the fringe, and it's not at all clear what is going on. The instructions say nothing about fringe. Maybe, just maybe, originally the fringe was made as the stripes were worked - just leave a long piece at the start and at the end and trim them even - and then someone altered the pattern to say "Carry color not in use loosely along edge of work," but neglected to add instructions on how to make the fringe.

Joining squares: decide whether the 'carried loosely' edge or the other edge would look better as an outside edge. Join square 2 to the other edge. Join square 3 to square 2 using the same logic. Square 4 gets joined on two sides.

Do the fringe any way you think it looks good. No instructions = no "right" way = be imaginative. Use a third color, even. Or skip the fringe. No crochet police will descend upon you if you alter things.