Aggie Stripes

For the last two years Caleb has lived in the dorms at Texas A&M Galveston.  This fall he will be in his very first apartment at Texas A&M College Station.  That means he'll have a sofa!  (In addition to a kitchen and washer and dryer and all sorts of other amenities.)  So I decided he might want a throw blanket for his sofa, so I ordered some Cascade 220 Superwash and got to work!

I decided to use Lucy of Attic 24's* Granny Stripe Blanket directions, but switched up the stripe pattern.  I decided to make him an Aggie Stripe blanket, but making a white blanket for anyone (let alone a 21 year old and whoever comes over to hang out) sounds like a nightmare.  So while I'm fully aware that A&M's colors are maroon and white, I'm using maroon and pale gray.  I decided to make the majority of the blanket gray and use narrower maroon stripes.  It's overcast this morning, so the maroon looks darker than it is, but it's a good match for the maroon used on the A&M website.  I'm almost finished with my second wide, gray stripe.  

The way the pattern is written, each color is worked for two rows and I'm keeping things in pairs as well.  I'm working seven pairs of gray rows and one pair of maroon rows for each repeat.  I've just carried the gray up the side since the maroon is so narrow, but I'm cutting and restarting the maroon.  I haven't decided if I'll add a border or not, but I'll probably do something narrow for stability.  It's going to be a very simple blanket, but I think that's the kind of blanket Caleb would prefer.

*I've said it before and I'll continue saying it, she writes the BEST crochet tutorials!  You need to know the difference between US and UK crochet terms (she always states which one she's using), but she uses very clear pictures and good directions to walk you step by step through a pattern.  If you ever want to learn to crochet, Attic 24 is a great place to start.