Genre blanket: July
I’m quite a bit behind on my genre blanket these days. All my crafting time has been spent on knitting lately, but more on that in a next post 😉
I only just finished July in my genre blanket, and unfortunately haven’t gotten further along with the other months yet. There’s just so much I want to do, and so little time to do it in, lol.
Anyway, July, in terms of reading, this was a fairly standard month for me with the usual variation in genres. In total I read 7 books, spread over 6 genre blanket genres, which allowed me to crochet a nice variation in color scheme again!
July genres
1. Mystery
2. Thriller
3. Adult Fantasy
4. YA Fantasy
5. YA Fantasy
6. Sci-Fi
7. Romance
I don’t really have anything in particular to say about these additional July-stripes.
All colours have been used at least once by now, some more than others. Oh yes, there’s one thing, I think July is the first time I read the same genre twice in a row, meaning I had to crochet the same colour stripe twice.
![GD22 34 JUL GD22 34 JUL](https://i0.wp.com/charami.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GD22-34-JUL.jpeg?w=503&h=377&ssl=1)
![GD22 36 JUL GD22 36 JUL](https://i0.wp.com/charami.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GD22-36-JUL.jpeg?w=449&h=377&ssl=1)
The counter now stands at 64 stripes and gives the blanket a height of about 98 cm. So it looks like my blanket will be getting a decent size, considering how much I’ve read in the following months too.
With 64 stripes over 98cm, this means about 1.5cm per line, which coincide with the gauge swatch I did before starting this project. With the books read from August to October alone, I estimate that about 50cm in height will get added, which brings me pretty close to the target size of between 150 and 180 cm!
![GD22 38 JUL GD22 38 JUL](https://i0.wp.com/charami.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GD22-38-JUL.jpeg?w=567&h=513&ssl=1)
![GD22 37 JUL GD22 37 JUL](https://i0.wp.com/charami.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GD22-37-JUL.jpeg?w=385&h=513&ssl=1)
The width is somwhat smaller than what I had aimed for, 117 cm while I wanted more like 120 cm, but still, that’s not dramatically smaller and there is still the possibility I will do a border around the whole thing once it’s finished.
So, so far so good! Now only to find the time to crochet on!
Cheers,
Charlotte
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