I enjoy making blankets in rows--that is until they get so big they refuse to be anywhere but on me--but even when I make them in blocks they ultimately get that way. Anyway, a couple of my rowed attempts follow.

The Irish Wave is beautiful. It's also very easy to make. This was a stash buster trying to use up some odd skeins of yarn and it succeeded. In the end I called it the candy almond blanket for those candy-coated almonds that the theaters like to sell. [[https://bizzycrochet.blogspot.com/2014/05/new-free-irish-wave-baby-blanket.html|"Irish Wave Baby Blanket"]].

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I was always having trouble making my base the right size for width but since I finally managed to figure out how to do the foundation row start it's a lot easier since it doesn't stretch out like a chain does. I made the "Cosy Stripe" blanket from [[https://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/cosy-stripe-blanket.html|Attic24]] when I was still having trouble so where it was originally meant for the stripes to go horizontally I sent them vertically instead. And decided to add a fringe.

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