{"id":17947,"date":"2020-03-16T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T14:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/wordpress\/?p=17947"},"modified":"2020-03-16T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T14:14:00","slug":"sliding-tiles-blanket-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/17947","title":{"rendered":"Sliding Tiles Blanket Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m so happy to finally show you my Sliding Tiles Blanket. Yes, it has a name! I put a call out to my Scheepjes Bloggers to help me think of a name, and after some discussion,\u00a0Simy Somer<\/a>\u00a0mentioned that it reminded her of one of those sliding tile puzzles we used to do back in the day, remember those?!<\/p>\n

\"\"Maybe some of you are too young to remember, but I’m in my mid 40’s and when I was a kid, my parents used to throw one of these in my direction when they needed to keep me distracted for a while.<\/p>\n

What an awful little monster I must have been to raise, because if I can be real here for a second… I used to get frustrated and pop those suckers right out of there and then snap them back in. I’m a bit torn on whether it was a good or bad thing, really. Maybe I lacked patience, or was too dumb to figure out the puzzles before the frustration set in, but I was also smart enough to not waste more time on it than I had to.<\/p>\n

I guess it would depend on who you ask, and since this is my blog and my rules, I’m going with smart enough!<\/p>\n

I honestly tortured myself for ages for a name and I don’t remember when I last had so much trouble thinking of one, but once I heard the Sliding Tiles, I knew that was the one.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Two photos above: Photos and test knitting by Theresa Pearson<\/p>\n

<\/i>\n\t\t\tThis blanket is made using\u00a01x Scheepjes Stone Washed \/ River Washed Colour Pack<\/a> (newer pack with 58 colours) and *11-12x Scheepjes Stone Washed in Moonstone (801)<\/a>.
\n*The blanket is possible to make the blanket with 11 balls, including the join, but if you want to have a little extra wiggle room for personal tension or longer tails for your join, I’d suggest buying 12 to be sure you have enough. \n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n

What took me longer than the name, was the layout. I’d mentioned this in my previous post<\/a>\u00a0but couldn’t go into it in too much detail until I showed it. The challenge, and my goal, with this design layout was trying to use all of the colours in a unique way. I had 112 squares, which was two squares for each colour from the pack that was used.<\/p>\n

I tried many, many variations but I kept coming back to this same idea of the overlapping tiles. \u00a0The most challenging part was trying to use all of the squares. In the beginning, I planned to do the tiles in a random order, placed all over the blanket. Once I had this laid out, the edges bothered me, because it left me with what I called ‘orphan’ tiles sticking out on the edges with no match.<\/p>\n

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You can see what I mean in this quick photo I took at the time, shown above. The blue lines point to the ‘orphaned’ tiles and I just found it all a bit too chaotic. I needed more order in the layout.<\/p>\n

I decided that I wanted to try to create a gradient and to close the edges. In order to do this, I had to find the closest colour matches within the colour range available in the pack, that allowed me to break up one set of two squares, and match each of them to two other pairs. This meant that not all of the edge squares would be exact matches, but I was still ok with that because when I finally got the puzzle pieces all in place, I loved the finished blanket so much!<\/p>\n

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Here is a better photo of the full blanket laid out. Excuse any wonkiness, I was standing on a stool on a windy day and I kept having to get off to flip it back over. After a while I gave up on trying to pat it out into its most pretty of forms. I was trying to take a photo and felt like I was taking a step class!<\/p>\n

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So that’s it, after a zillion years, a zillion changes in plans and a zillion more distractions, this blanket is finally finished and presented to the world!<\/p>\n

I will be back soon with the finished pattern, which will include a diagram for this layout as well as information on yarn amounts for if you want to use the regular 50g balls. It will, of course, be possible to put together your own layouts as well, using the mitered square pattern.<\/p>\n

Hope you like it as much as I do!<\/p>\n

BLOOPER REEL!<\/strong><\/p>\n

That moment when you try to take photos of a blanket and the wind just wants to blow you out to sea.<\/p>\n

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Where To Buy<\/strong><\/h3>\n

UK and International buyers will find Stone Washed \/ River Washed yarns at\u00a0Woolwarehouse<\/a>\u00a0and Black Sheep Wools<\/a>.
\nCanadian and International buyers have a great option with\u00a0Knotty House<\/a>.
\nThose of you in the Netherlands can find all you need at\u00a0Caro\u2019s Atelier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can also ask your preferred Scheepjes retailer or\u00a0find a shop near you<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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This post contains affiliate links. This is a way for you to support Canadutch and me as a designer. It is no extra cost to you, but if you shop via one of these links, I get a small percentage of the sale!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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