It’s day one of the summer holidays and as I sit down to type this post, my children are still fast asleep. Its 9.25am, and the house is absolutely silent apart from the dishwasher and the washing machine. Its raining of course. This is England after all, pretty much guaranteed to rain as soon as… Read More A baby blanket
What’s Sixty Million Trebles, whats that I hear you ask? It’s a great project started by some ladies in the UK, where they are trying to make a blanket that uses sixty million trebles (Or Double Crochets if you are in the USA) Well that is absolutely huge! Yes it is, it’ll be 8050 (eight… Read More Sixty Million Trebles
Until I’ve finished what I have started! Yep – I think we’ve all said that at one time or another! But this is me writing to myself to try and resist the urge to pick up my hook, scissors and or material, and get creating! I’m itching to start designing something new, BUT, I must… Read More I really must not start anything else……….
Time to finally share the mission that has been the Harry Potter blanket. It’s been the biggest thing I have tackled, taken hours and hours, and is far bigger than I expected……… but I love it! (And so does the Blue one!). I made the crest square, which you can read all about here, then… Read More Harry Potter blanket – Part 2
So this has been a mission this blanket, to say the least, and this square was a real pain for a good few months of the summer. The project I found on Two Hearts Crochet , where she’s very kindly shared loads of free graphs, and has a Facebook page where lots of other people have shared… Read More The Harry Potter Blanket – Part 1
The blanket tradition in our house started a couple of years ago after I learnt how to crochet. I went full blown into making a granny stripe blanket from Attic 24 which the pink one has, my post about how I started it is here… but it’s only as I type this I remember I… Read More Corner to corner rainbows