This is a development from the Dinky diamonds blanket that I blogged about earlier, using the V-motif as a repeating pattern, with no intervening diamonds.

Because the V-stitch is so stretchy I used a (UK) foundation treble crochet starting row to provide a sufficiently elastic start to the blanket. I followed Cherry Heart’s tutorial for this here. My blanket is made from Sirdar no. 1 dk in wishbone (202), spearmint (205) and fog (213) on a 4.5mm hook. It is 90 stitches (44 V’s) wide and 79 rows long. It measures 71 x 59cm and weighs 330g. I used 100g each of the spearmint and fog colours, and 130g of wishbone.
A huge plus of this blanket is, as it uses 3 colours of yarn in a repeating sequence, there were only 6 ends to sew in at the end. If I make another one, I would make it 80 stitches (39 V’s) wide I think, and be more confident of finishing using only 1 ball of each colour.