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Crochet Gamer Afghan

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 7:08 pm
by alicia1018
Im making this blanket for my boyfriend. Im guessing im going to need 25 squares to make it decent sized. Each square is going to represent a different video game and are made in single crochet, 30st across by 35rows. Ive made 9 so far, and have made patterns for quite afew more. I really hope 25 is all im going to need cuz im having trouble coming up with more games, since i want the games to be ones that my bf likes, and they have to be such small images. Heres some that ive made so far. Can you tell what they all are? My favorite one is Kirby, It came out just perfect!
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Im for sure going to make squares for Mario, Yoshi, Megaman, Sonic, Metroid, PacMan, Final fantasy, and Oblivion. Id like to make one for Starcraft II, I was thinking the logo for the terran since apparently thats who my bf likes to play. but am having difficulty coming up with a pattern. I also have a WoW alliance logo pattern i made but im not sure how its going to turn out, and im not sure i want 2 have 2 squares representing the same game. Any thoughts?

Re: Crochet Gamer Afghan

Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 1:36 pm
by rufusdampfer
And there it is!
Great work here. It looks very clean and it will definitely be heavy and warm!

Re: Crochet Gamer Afghan

Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 7:03 pm
by loserkid5150
All of them are great!

Re: Crochet Gamer Afghan

Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 9:27 pm
by alicia1018
Thanks :-) Im hoping to be able to back all the pieces with some sort of fabric when im done to hide all the ends on the back. not quite sure how to go about doing that, since i dont really sew... but ive got aways till i have to worry about that. Then it should really be warm

Re: Crochet Gamer Afghan

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:41 am
by LiquidKarma
This looks soooooo good! I'm so envious of your crochet-ers :D

Re: Crochet Gamer Afghan

Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 2:52 pm
by alicia1018
Just finished a square for Harvest Moon.
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Re: Crochet Gamer Afghan

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:37 am
by alicia1018
Finished yoshi and lakitu

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Re: Crochet Gamer Afghan

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:06 pm
by alicia1018
IM FINALLY DONE MAKING ALL THE SQUARES!!!!! It only took 6 months lol. Now I need to border them, block them, sew them together and try to figure out how to sew a back on them... if anyone has any tips on attaching fabric to these, id be more then happy to hear them! :D
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The squares are, from left to right, top to bottom, Frogger, N+, Pokemon, Tetris, Duck Hunt, Megaman, Kirby, Bubble Bobble, Final Fantasy, Harvest Moon, Dig Dug, Metroid, Legend of Zelda, Space Invaders, World of Warcraft, Angry Birds, Donkey Kong, Minecraft, Pacman, Super Mario bros, Portal, Yoshi, Super Smash Bros, Sonic and Oblivion.

Re: Crochet Gamer Afghan

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:00 am
by Ellentje
Those squares look great! How big is going to be?
I made a crochet blanket myself a while ago, and I sewed fleece to the back of it. I cut the fleece a about 15 cm bigger than the blanket on all sides. I folded the edges of the fleece to get a border of 5 cm with nice finished edges and used wool to roughly sow it onto the blanket. It worked great.

Re: Crochet Gamer Afghan

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 12:18 pm
by RAWRmonster
WOW! So jealous! This is going to be incredible when it's finished. He's a lucky man, indeed.