Astrology Blanket – The Planets

All the planets, the ascendant, and the MC squares

Hoo boy, this is going to be a big blanket! It will fit a king-size bed (and be a wonderful addition to any blanket fort due to its size). I was going to add the asteroids, but a) it will take up an entire room if I do that, and b) that’s why we have pillows. I may make a smaller version in the future where I can fit them, but for now, we’re making the granddaddy of all blankets: a giant, tapestry crochet aspect grid.

I may have explained what an aspect grid was in a previous blog, but here’s a recap: it’s a chart that shows you were the planets were in relation to each other from the place you were born, on the day/time of your birth. So far, I have the luminaries (the sun and the moon), the planets, the ascendant, (your rising sign – the constellation that was rising off the eastern horizon at the time of your birth), and the MC (medium coleri, or midheaven, the constellation that was overhead at the time of your birth, the highest point in your chart). I will do an article for each square, and each aspect square as I come to them (I’m doing major and minor aspects in this blanket, and different size images for weak vs. strong major aspects, so we’re going to have a lot to cover).

But for now, tapestry crochet!

Tapestry crochet is when you take more than 1 strand of yarn and alternate it in your work to create an image. You can make a square look like embroidery, you can make it look like an 8-bit videogame. Here, I’m making it look like a bunch of stars coming together to form the symbol I want.

How? There’s a bug in tapestry crochet: the other yarn color can show through. I’m turning this bug into a feature: by using a galaxy-colored variegated yarn for the background and the white yarn for the signs, the white yarn peeking through the background will look like stars. Likewise, if there’s any dark yarn showing through my signs, it will make the sign look like a bunch of stars coming together to form the symbol (and the black is just a gap in the stars). Cool, huh?

But before we get started, here’s a quick tutorial from Yay for Yarn on how to do tapestry crochet if you’re interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHHNpXiMhj8

Next Astrology Blanket blog: the Sun (and how I design my tapestry patterns).