Sunday 19 August 2012

The African Flower Challenge

The African Flower Motif is a classic crochet pattern. It has allured many crocheters because of its many possibilities in terms of its applications and the color combinations that can be used. The motif is usually in a pentagon or hexagon shape.

I was challenged by a friend to make an afghan (the term for a knitted or crocheted blanket) made of African Flower Motifs. The size is expected to be around 4x6 ft. 

Here's a teaser. I hope to get this done by next month. 
The motifs are still unstitched. I chose to stitch them up by motif instead of crocheting each one to the next while working on the last round of each motif, to avoid any unnecessary stretching. So far, I've worked on 24 unique color combinations for this project. This afghan requires around 480+ motif pieces. I can't wait to show you the finished product soon!

7 comments:

  1. what crochet hook did you use?
    ang ganda ng combinations :)

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  2. Bheng! Thanks! I used a standard hook 2 (US size).Thanks for following my little blog :)

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  3. This will really look good in any home. :)

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    1. Yeah, what's nice is you can also play around with colors.

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  4. ang ganda grabe.. napanood ko kagabi gawa na po yan... sana makagawa din ako hehe.. pero kailangan ko muna bumili ng maraming maraming yarn :)
    nasa grade skul ako ng matuto akong mag gansilyo pero nasa lahi na ata namin... ang tita ko yan ang business nya nag gagansilyo sya ng damit ng my size doll.. pero madalas ginagawan nya kami ng beanie at bag.. ako nahuhumaling na rin gumawa.. isa lang ang hook ko hehe. sana madagdagan :) salamat sa blog mo Ms. Trey :)

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  5. what crochet hook did you use po? in terms of mm? and what crochet thread po? is it Monaco thread? Thanks!

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    1. Hi! I used 2.0 and it's a combination of Cannon and Monaco :)

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