Old Romance blanket

Old Romance is a beautiful blanket, inspired by vintage carpet bags, tapestries and floral pictures.  It is detail rich, with surface crochet, post crochet and simple embroidery.  The octagonal and square motifs are made individually and then joined together before adding the border, which has its own embellishments to reflect the main motifs.  As written, the pattern works up to 86cm/36" square, ideal for a baby blanket or lap blanket.  It is easy to make the blanket larger, but it will obviously require more yarn than is listed.  The pattern includes detailed instructions, photographs and a layout chart for putting it together.