Mel & Vince's Wedding Graphgan

I have been teaching myself new crochet stitches and trying new projects out. I had always seen beautiful graphaghans but never thought I could make one. Until one of my friends sent out her wedding invitations it never even entered my mind that I could make something like that! So I started searching the internet for a pattern I liked, that was also wallet friendly. I couldn't find anything that I really liked so I took on the task of making my own! (I used: Stitchboard.com) The graph I made was not perfect but after printing it out I could make the changes I wanted and could see the pattern and where little imperfections would be.

Their wedding colours are blue and yellow so I made a blue blanket with the yellow details (replaced white in the pattern with blue and black with yellow). I also decided to make the birds all yellow (so i had to replace the white inside the outline with yellow instead of blue). The pattern worked from bottom to top so I started with the date.

I started with a few double crochets in yellow and in blue (10-30), and then I did 10 single crochets in blue before starting the pattern.  This is the date finished, as you can see I sewed in the ends on the front but not on the back yet. You can sew in the ends whenever you want, but try not to do them close to the row you were working on or it may make the stitches too tight. 

Between the date and the birds I did 11 rows of white (blue in this case) to space it out. You need to make sure that you follow the pattern. for example because the called for lets say 15 rows of white you must make the number you change to an odd number also. If you do not, say if I would have done 10 or 12, I would have started on the opposite side of where the pattern should be. (Patterns work from left to right, so you must follow them or you will end up working right to left when you should be working left to right). 

Here are the birds, all done, the ends are sewn in on the front. After this I did 13 single crochets in white (blue), to space the birds out.  

I only had the name left after the birds, and once the names were done I finished it the way I started, with 10 single crochets in blue and 10 - 30 in blue and yellow (repeating what I did to start the blanket). 

This is the final product! 

I am very happy with the way it came out. Not too bad for my first graphgan! The Pdf file for this pattern is available on our facebook page! 

I can not post the pdf file here or I would.  To finish off the gift I made a cute picture with a nice poem called Saying I Do.