Legos and Crochet!

Inkscape pattern idea

 About a month ago I saw someone on Pinterest had crated a Lego Afghan., it was really cute but I knew I could either find the  pattern or  dope it out  one way shape form...finally found this  pattern from  from Eva Ferrebee the Lego Block.   I new this would make a great afghan for my youngest daughter she is now married and was my Lego kid..I still have her 5 gallon bucket full of them base and all.  I started out with the measurement of the  block it is approximately 3" x 5"  I had laid it out in Inkscape, place using the block colors of red, yellow, blue, black and white. This let me lay out the pattern of the colors so I could see how it would look in the end.  After I figured out a what size of  afghan I began to figure how many blocks of each color.  It ended up at first 50 blocks 10 of each then I ended up making more another 50.

Started working got the blocks set up in rows in the color sequence started sewing the rows together with the paddy green.  Used the crochet stitch for joining that creates a ridge on top of the blocks as you can see in the pictures.  I would attach two rows then attach those two to the next two thought that would make it more manageable to work with.  The entire project took over a month and half.. Could not wait to finish it.  Thinking back I wish I had done the squares in groups of 10 wide by 5 rows, those I would have blocked and bordered it in the green also but it may have been easier to work on.  Less cumbersome not quite a mile a minute which that may have been easy too, long strips edged with the green and then stitched together and swa- la done deal.  

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Can't measure it now daughter came down and took it home got one more thing off my work table.  Will tackle another project soon moving back to my car project....got new window switch going to let you know how that went. cya then.