Pink Grannie Vintage Stripe

Pink because of the predominance of pink. Grannie because that is who it is for, rather than it being a Granny. Vintage Stripe because that is the pattern. This is a MAMMOTH blanket - about 7 feet across, designed to fit a big double with lots of overhang. It is a pet hate of mine about blankets, that they are not wide enough for the bed and they leave you cold at the edges.

This is made in a similar wool to the Teenage Vintage Stripe and the Teenage Ripple, but it is from a different manufacturer. It is mostly pinks, lilacs, purples, blues, with a little bit of green, and a lot of white. I find that the key to most crochet blankets is to add a lot of white, since it highlights all of the colour nicely.

Not so Vintage Vintage Stripe

This is the first copy of the vintage blanket I have. It is done in a mixture of wool, cotton, wool/nylon, which you're not supposed to do, but if seems to wash ok.

In many ways this is my favourite blanket, except for it being small. I guess it is a lapghan, which always makes me think "What kind of a dog is that?". It is about 3 feet square.

Vintage Vintage Stripe

This is the original Vintage Stripe, which I have duplicated. It belonged to my grandmother and was made for her, about 20 or 30 years ago, my mum thinks, by someone unknown, maybe her home help. It was at my mum's house under a cat, but I rescued it, and as possession is 9/10ths of the law, it is mine now, (at least for a while).

It is made in what appears to be 3 ply wool in a nylon/acrylic. Most of the wool is self-coloured but some is variagated.


The pattern is easy. It is basically treble/treble into the spaces of the row before, with a scallop trim border around the finished blanket. The tricky part was the right number of trebles at either end of a row to get exactly the same number as the row before. There were a few pyramid shapes before I mastered it.

Teenage Vintage Stripe

This is a single bed size companion to the Teenage Ripple. It is not perhaps captured here, but it is shockingly bright, especially when twinned with the ripple. Made in the same wool, but slightly different colour scheme. It took about 2000g of wool to make this, and a lot of time. I don't mind too much the zipping back and forth, but absolutely hate the sewing in of ends.