Ocean Waves Blanket

So I normally don't make blankets for people.  They're beautiful and I love making them, but they just take SO LONG to make!  But when a close friend makes a special request, I will of course make it!  This is to be a gift for a friend's cousin's wedding.  They own a boat called 'Hoot' so we wanted to come up with something that was water-related and also incorporated the boat name.  Here are some photos and details on this beautiful blanket's construction!

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Pattern used: Ocean Waves Throw by Red Heart Yarn (link in Ravelry) (link on Red Heart website)

Materials:

• Bernat Super Value yarn (new packaging) in the following colors:
• Navy
• Royal Blue
• Hot Blue
• Sky
• White
• 6 mm hook
• Tapestry needle

Modifications:

• Ch 199 to allow for 13 waves across, double bed size
• Did 8 full waves for the length
• This allowed finished dimensions of 60" wide x 70" long
• I created 2 owl appliqués and sewed them in place, pattern is on my blog (here) and added a crochet heart, which I used this pattern for (large size)

Overall this took around 32 hours (half hour per stripe, 4 hours per wave) for the blanket, an hour to weave in ends and 2 hours for the appliqués. So 35ish hours of love!

Photos:

You can see my Ravelry project here.

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