Once upon a time, about 3 years ago, my first nephew was born (ok, I still only have one nephew, but some day I may have more than one). When he was born I gave him a car blanket, similar to the one posted here: http://http//andreainajax.blogspot.com/2010/06/twinsies.html
Anyway, this blanket has been his favourite blanket forever and I thought maybe it was time for him to have a new blanket.
Jackson is obsessed with superheros and Buzz Lightyear. I tried and tried to think of something to make for him that he would love. I don't enjoy doing single crochet afghans where you change colours repeatedly to make a picture, so I didn't want to go that route. But you should totally look up superhero stuff on Ravelry (see link in sidebar), because there is some incredible stuff. Eventually I found a pretty cool and straightforward pattern - a round ripple afghan with colour changes and surface chaining to make it look like a Spiderman spiderweb.
So far it seems to be a pretty big hit!
The pattern is from this website: http://stitchnfrog.blogspot.com/2009/07/superhero-dream-catcher-afghan.html. Though my afghan looks pretty similar I actually did modify the pattern a bit. The number of rows between colour changes in the pattern is not always the same, but I kept mine the same. After the red section it was 5 blue, 1 black, 5 blue, 1 black, 5 red, 1 black etc. I also ended with a black row instead of blue or red cause I thought it looked more finished that way. I used red heart and bernat acrylic worsted weight yarns.
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