crochet - CAL2015 week 7 - 10

The lost two week I continued with the CAL blanket. And it wat really fun to do. There where two stitches which where completely new to me. So I also learned some new stuff which I love.
So here are the pictures per 'week'

 

For week 7 there was a new stitch, (in Dutch : de wokkel steek). I really have no idea what it is called in English. But it was really fun to do. Unfortunately I made a mistake, there where supposed to be 2O 'wokkels' at each side but in mine there are 2 sides with 21. But I find this out pretty late so is decided to leave it like this. so it's a bit out of shape (not really square).

 

Week 8 had a mix of the basic crochet stitches but they are used in variable cluster so it gets a playful variation.  It was fun to do and they where done in no time.

 After the four quick rows from week 8 there Week 9  had only one row but it was a lot of work. Also this was a new stitch for me (in Dutch : de parel steek). Unfortunately no close up picture from this one.
For this row I used a bit op scrap cotton, I hadn't thought about that it might be to short. When I had one side done I watched the remaining ball of cotton and began to be afraid that is wouldn't be enough. But there was al ready so much work in the first side that I refused to pull it out to start over with a new color. So I continued. Lucky for me there was just enough.

The weather yesterday was really nice so we went to a lake nearby and of course I brought my blanket with me and finished the rows of week 10 there. These where some simple halve double crochet, and double crochet row. 

By now my blanket is 54 cm