{"id":89,"date":"2012-12-10T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/?p=89"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:45:04","slug":"snowflake-afghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/2012\/12\/snowflake-afghan\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowflake Afghan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A couple of months ago, I saw a pin on pinterest of this blog post<\/a> and I knew I just had to make myself one of these afghans! And today, I finished it! I’m so pleased with it and I’m so glad that I have it done in time to enjoy it for the whole winter. After all, I don’t store away my snow d\u00e9cor after Christmas – I enjoy my winter things all winter long!<\/p>\n

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The original white snowflake looks a lot different from the finished snowflake with the blue around it!<\/p><\/div>\n

The pattern I followed is free from artoftangle.com<\/a>. As far as crocheting patterns go, I thought it was pretty easy to follow. Once you figure it out, you just make as many snowflake hexagons as you want! The pattern calls for 59, but I actually made my blanket slightly larger – I made 68. I just added one hexagon to each row. Each hexagon took me around an hour to make.<\/p>\n

I started making the afghan probably about 8 weeks ago or so, and I tried to work on it a little every day. Once you have some hexagons done, you essentially sew them together in strips and then sew the strips together. Then magically, in no time, it turns into a blanket!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Once you have the blanket as large as you want it to be, you put the edging on. It was easy to do, but took longer than I expected. The edging just repeats single, triple, single, triple, all the way around. It gives it a nice little bumpy edge!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Below: the completed blanket! I just love it!<\/p>\n

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A couple of months ago, I saw a pin on pinterest of this blog post and I knew I just had to make myself one of these afghans! And today, I finished it! I’m so pleased with it and I’m so glad that I have it done in time to enjoy it for the whole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,8,9],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crocheting","category-diy","category-seasons","category-winter","tag-afghan","tag-snowflakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}