Granny Crochet Blanket

Hi all,

It's been a little while since my last post; Christmas, birthdays, holidays and weddings all crammed in to a short three week period! Anywho, I was just posting some images to my Mum about my upcoming wedding, and realised I hadn't put anything up on here about the blanket I made my Mum for Christmas.

Last year, when just beginning to crochet I made a blanket for my sister. I'd told my Mum I'd started crocheting and she'd found it quite funny, quite 70's! But then she seemed to regret that when Claire got something not her! So this year, after several fairly big hints I started on this one.

Wool basket, full of wool!

This is my favourite blanket I've ever made, very sad to see it go - BUT I know it has gone to a good home and will be appreciated. Sadly no photos of it in it's new home, but I'll try update when I get some!

Ta da! All done, and below all packed ready to be wrapped :) One day, after this wedding business is all over i think I might make me one!

Love Ali

xx

Christmas Craft Night (Alternative title: "Smell my kitchen")

It's only a few months until Christmas, and it's now cold and dark outside. Lots of candles, lovely smells, tasty food and Christmas related craft books greeted us at Fiona's house. And wine and tea, all of us were looked after :)

Amy had lost her crochet circles from last time, and was struggling with  mountains of wool...

Nom, cranberry cookies from Laura - delicious

Gingerbread with buttercream icing - amazing and very festive!

I wasn't quite sure what to make this evening, just something involving my weirdly large amount of festive patterned fabric :)

Reindeer applique time

Fiona is knitting a mug cosy, Laura crocheting a complicated chevron blanket and Amy crocheting  circles for bunting

Becky is crocheting the very beginnings of a blanket, with a little bit of help from a lady on the internet...

Wonderful Fiona made us very alcoholic mince meat, which involved apple, cranberry, oranges and rum (brandy?) and smelt amazing. Going to have mine with ice cream I reckon!

Applique reindeer!

Gold and green

Little squares!

Circles!

Chevrons!

Cosy!

Reindeer with final red stitch around.

Wonderful crafterevening. Still have a lot of fabric to use up tho...

Ali

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Circles, Squares and Wiggles: Crochet Blankets

Hi all!

This isn't a How To, just a bit of showing off! I've just finally finished sewing in the ends of a new baby blanket for a friend and as I'm waiting until she is a bit nearer giving birth to give it to her, I'll show the internet instead! The pattern is based on one from a crochet book I got out from the library a few weeks ago, and is a fantastic book written by Linda Permann called 'Little Crochet, Modern Designs for Babies and Toddlers'. Worth checking out if you or anyone nearby has an little ones! Modified slightly in that the pattern in the book was very small, so I increased it by making a few extra rows of squares.

And then I thought, oh, I haven't put any pictures of my wiggly rainbow blanket I made months ago on Pinterest yet, I can add them in here! This pattern was slavishly followed from the very easily followable patterns from Lucy at Attic 24. I'm in love with this, but didn't make it quite wide enough for a grown up blanket, still love it and it will stay in blanket cupboard (or on a random chair in the living room...) until a purpose for it appears!

And then this is what I'm working on at the moment, although I'm having a little break and sewing in ends tonight as my crochet finger feels pretty much like it is going to fall off! 

This one was inspired by some Pinterest wanderings a little while ago that I've become fairly obsessed with (here for the original photo). The pattern is very basic, just a normal granny square but instead of going straight in to the previous row, doing a row of 3 chain and single stitches in each gap in white. I think it looks lovely and has built up really quickly. If I do this again, I would go for a rectangle shape instead as maybe the final product will be more useable?

Love Ali

xx