I started by looking through the internet for an easy lesson and came across one of the crochet crowd videos http://thecrochetcrowd.com/cornertocorner/ which is very easy to follow.
This is what I did as my first practise piece using the video tutorial.
The idea of this stitch is to start in the corner of your project, so instead of working length ways you end up working horizontally. The practise piece I finished off as a rectangle but it can also be finished of as a square. To finish of as a square you decrease equally on both sides of the project but for a rectangle you only decrease one side whilst continuing to increase the other.
Anyway after doing my practise piece I decide to make a small pram blanket and just plan as I go along for colour changes...remember I said small!!!
This isn't even half way!
I started the pram blanket with just a change of colour when I got to start a new line. I soon got bored. I wanted to try and see if I could start another square within the square I was making and so came the multi-coloured square you see here. It was surprisingly easier then I thought it would be; just make sure to start the square on a line with an odd number of stitches so that when the first set of stitches go in to make the corner you have an equal amount of stitches on either side. I was really amused and confused at one point because I expected the white to get smaller as my multi-coloured square got bigger. Of cause it didn't because for each increase on the multi-coloured square I was increasing the white...duh.
As you can see though I wasn't satisfied at just doing one multi coloured square. I had to try and add another square but this time having the side facing the original starting corner. At this point I was still completely clueless about just how big this blanket was about to get, although I knew it was no longer going to be pram sized.
It's huge!!!
Reality soon set in about how big the blanket was getting and my eldest daughter had now laid claim to it, I still wasn't satisfied with the lack of changes in colours so decided I was going to make the entire thing look symmetrical, with both halves having the multi-coloured square and also one in the centre of the purple square. I wanted to put the purple lines seen at the starting corner at each of the other 3 corners but by the time it came to possibly adding them in my brain had decided it no longer liked maths and I couldn't figure out if I had correctly counted the stitches and couldn't be bothered to frog everything if I was wrong, so I left that idea and decided I will just make the last corner match. Also I was starting to panic that I was running out of wool and had no clue where I got the purple from...oops. I had plenty of white and the multi-coloured wool I knew was sold by paintbox so that was ok but the purple I thought I brought from the £ shop wasn't.
2 different shades
Luckily I remembered I had a tub full of different shades of purple buried under an avalanche of other things waiting to be used for crafting one day and there inside were 3 balls of the exact colour I needed. I only needed the one and was extremely happy because now I didn't need to buy any more.
I finished!!!
After about 2 weeks I finished the blanket which measured 43 inch squared and my eldest loved it, she hasn't allowed me to take it off her bed since she got it at the weekend; so well worth doing. I love how the pattern of corner to corner works with the stitches, it looks so different from what I normally do. I still regret that this blanket hasn't got more colour changes though and I wish I had outlined the multi coloured squares to make them stand out more but as a first blanket using this stitch I don't think I did to badly.
I have already started planning my next corner to corner blanket and by planning I mean actually drawing it out on a graph and counting out how many stitches it will be before it comes to actually making it so no more surprises on how big it will get.
Next time I'm also going to be more careful not to knot up my colours...well I say that but I just started a graphgan yesterday and so far haven't kept to my promise of keeping my colours a little neater. Maybe next time.
If you like crocheting and haven't done a corner to corner give it a try it is very easy and if you don't plan it can be quite fun to see what you end up with xxxx
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