The Operation Teapot Blanket

The Operation Teapot Blanket

This little blanket radiates with love.

When I asked my good friend Virginia if I could crochet her a blanket for her new baby, she asked for neon and grey colors.  Virginia has a very retro-alternative style, like a if Sid Vicious and a mid-century house wife, had a baby. I love how original she is.  She definitely embraces herself and I was happy to help her, with her vision for her nursery. When I was done with the blanket and ready to name it, all I could think of was that it looked like a 50s blanket that had survived the aftermath of an atomic bomb, it just glowed with awesomeness...literally.   So, of course I named it after the nuclear test in the 1955, where they bombed the fake town, "Survival Town."  The only place a Granny Square blanket could go radioactive, The Operation Teapot Blanket.

What you need:

Simply Soft Neon Yarn

Size J Hook

1. In neon blue color, Ch4, slst in first ch.
2. Ch3, 2dc in circle, "ch2, 3dc" Repeat "" twice more. Slst to first cluster,  ch3, turn.
3. 2dc in ch-sp, "ch2, 3dc, in same ch-sp, ch ,3dc in next ch-sp," Repeat "" around. 
4. In neon orange, Ch3, and turn. 2dc in ch-sp, "ch, 3dc" in each ch-sp, "3dc,ch2,3dc" in each corner.
5. Repeat step 4 twice more.
6. Change to neon green, repeat step 4 three times.
7. Change to grey,repeat step 4 once.
8. Change to neon blue,repeat step 4 three times.
9. Repeat steps 4-8 twice more.
10. Change to neon orange,repeat step 4 twice more.
11. Change to neon green,repeat step 4 once.
12. Change to grey,repeat step 4 once.
13. Instead of chaining 3 at the end, "ch5 and sc in ch-sp" repeat around. Ch3.
14. 7dc in ch5-sp, "slst in sc, 8dc in ch5-sp" around to end, slst in first sc.  Fasten off and weave in. 

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