The Study of Determination Blanket designed by Mikey. A sampler that makes synchronizing swimming look easy!
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The pattern is a stitch-along and will release new sections every Thursday for August 2023. After August 2023, the design will be put into one mega pattern for download.
Mikey designed the afghan back in August 2022 and just made quick diagram notes for the design but when it came to the finished piece, it's been rough! Squeezing into a floatie is a lot easier! In the end, I determined to make the stitches work to do a 'ta dah' moment in the end.
Tutorials
UPDATED INFO
The sign-up announcement will start on Thursday, July 20, 2023.
The stitch-along starts officially on August 3, 2023. We delayed the start-up until after Canada Day and Independence Day because of respect for the Canadian and USA celebration holidays. The yarn is listed below if you want to collect your yarn at any time.
The blanket will be bold and a reason to reach for the stars. Like the guy in the picture, he's probably like me in reaching up and saying, "Great, the challenge has started, and, oh yeah, the buffet is open!" I can totally relate to him.
Yarn
This will be the regular stitch along with our friends at Yarnspirations when we get moving on this. We are too early to start sign-ups to have this pattern delivered to you each week.
I was looking for yarn that was more vibrant than Caron One Pound and rediscovered a yarn that I had just pushed aside back in 2013. You can see more about Red Heart Comfort here. The yarn line had fresher summery colours. It matched the concept that I had in my head.
There are six balls in total. The yardage seems to go on forever and ever! You know me, I love long-yardage yarn! You will have yarn left over for other projects.
The colours are as follows for Going Boldy, one ball each:
Hot Pink
Goldenrod
Petal Pink
Peacock
Charcoal
Gray
The colours are as follows for the Flower Vase, one ball of each:
Cream
Charcoal
Gray
Seafoam
Petal Pink
Hot Pink
I am still in the design stage and don't know what colour I use most. I will weigh my yarn and accurately guess the yardage per colour.
I was focused on doing cross-over stitches—variations of crisscrossing design.
I developed a stitch doing crisscrossing over 2 spaces. In person, is magnificent to look at. I'm unsure if the photo really captures it.
One of my favourite summer afghans of the past was the Juicy Fruits and Whipped Creme Throw. If you kick the model off the couch, you will see the entire blanket and the colours are vibrant and have a summer look to it. Yes, there's a tutorial for it too.
If you enjoy Stitch Alongs, you can see more than we have done below.
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Barbara M. Riddle says
I have signed up for the Study of Determination crochet-along, but never received a confirmation email. I signed up several times since, and still no email confirmation. Could you check on that?
Wendy Maruna says
I am sorry to hear you haven’t gotten the email response yet. Our team doesn’t have the ability to view their email system, so their customer service team will need to assist you.
On their website, at the bottom of the webpages you will find a menu labeled “support” that when you click the plus sign ➕ will expand to show “contact us”.
Golda says
As Yarnspirations has been and is currently out of most of the Red Heart Comfort yarn, I purchased the Caron One Pound. I just need to know if I need to get more than one of any of the colors to have enough for this.
Thanks!
Wendy Maruna says
Some of the colors you won’t need the full ball, so you may need to sneak another color in place of one near the end. If you are okay with that you should be good with just one skein of each in Caron One Pound
Golda says
Thank you!
Golda says
As Yarnspirations is out of most of the colors for the stitch a long, do we need to buy extra of the Caron One Pound to have enough yarn for this? I've been on their notify list for several colors since this post first went up, so it doesn't look like they will be getting more of it anytime soon.
Ruth says
The Caron one pound is 812 yards/742 meters The Red Heart comfort is 867 yards/792 meters. Michael did say in his intro that you will probably have a little yarn leftover. I was able to get the yarn from Michael's Craft store website. They used a third party vendor that I don't know it was Agave. com. Maybe check both websites for pricing. If you sign up for Michael's emails they do send coupons, just like Joann's . Hope this helps.
Golda Peterson says
Thanks.