Crochet Kit - River Run Checkered Blanket

This pattern was confusing and when I finally figured out how to do it didnt look great either. I used the yarn for a different project.

I was very attracted to the baby blanket. After I bought the kit, you provided a correction to the instructions which require you to work with several balls at the same time in order to achieve the pattern. The balls of yarn are huge and somewhat cumbersome to have to work with several, plus I find the working of the pattern to be somewhat confusing.

After much confusion and then my disappontment, when I realized that the technique is more complicated than inferred of not having to change yarn due to the multicolors provided in the har itself.
I emailed you and the author to express my frustration, and received the updated pattern from both of you.
I will probably try the technique and see how it goes.
But please remedy the phrasing that you 'dont have to change yarn' every row.
Thank you for your beautiful yarns and lovely kits I have enjoyed over the years and will continue to enjoy.
You are my favorite company.
Sincerely,
Mrs. D. Castle

I'm a newbie crocheter. When I saw such a beautiful blanket in an "easy" pattern I was thrilled. I glanced through the pattern to make sure there wasn't some skill needed I didn't have yet. It looked great, no cutting yarn, no weaving in a bunch of ends, simple crochet stitches I already knew.

I was unfamiliar with the yarn but rushed to buy the bundle online without checking anything else.

About a week or two after I received my purchase I got an email that the pattern instructions had been updated. Specifically updated to say each row should be crocheted using a different ball of yarn with an contrasting color to the previous row. Use all 3 skeins at the same time and cut off colors to use later in order to reach a contrasting one if needed. I bought 4 skeins because I wanted it a littler bigger to use on my couch. Am I supposed to use all 4 skeins at once? I don't know, but it doesn't matter because I'm not up for the challenge of using multiple skeins at one time and pulling certain colors out of a skein of mandala yarn.

The pretty blanket I was so looking forward to will have to wait until I have more crocheting experience or patience to learn this method.

On the positive side, the yarn turned out to be really nice and soft. I'm scrambling to find an easy pattern to use 4 skeins on without creating funny stripes.

If I didn't like the yarn so much I would have returned the whole thing.

Very disappointing to find out a few weeks after I purchased the kit that the original directions were incorrect. It would have made a difference and I would not have purchased the kit, knowing it was made the way it was corrected.

I love Momma in a Stitch patterns. They are so easy to follow and they come out so nice.