Summers End

As summer draws to an end here in the Southern Hemisphere, Southern Australia was hit with a decent heatwave, which left me feeling sluggish and all together lazy. I spent my days lounging on my bed, with the blinds drawn closed to keep the heat of the sun out of the room. In the mornings and evenings I have gotten some more work done on the random stripey blanket.

The blanket, as can be seen to the left, looks delightfully delicious when folded and rolled up to show off all the wonderful colours, though since this photo was taken I have added a few more stripes of colourful squishiness, making the blanket a little longer than it is wider so far! (120cm/4ft wide x 130cm/4.2ft long)

In between the blanket making and lounging around I have queued up a few little projects on Ravelry I wish to make in the near future, most of which are Easter related, little bunnies, eggs and other cute animals.

Over the next few weeks I will be kept busy with medical appointments, work related appointments, and social outings, but I will continue to crochet and knit as I always do.

Blanket Madness

In my last post, i showed the current progress of a few different blanket that i have started to make. One of these blankets was the squircle granny patchwork blanket, which was originally going to be a full size queen bedspread, which decided it wanted to be a small single bed/sofa sized throw. ( It was the blanket who decided that not my brain which was getting bored of making squircle squares, i promise 😉)

Being only 90 squares in total. I was left with a heap of leftover yarn, which saw me hooking (totally legit crochet term) a new blanket just 5 days ago, which will be another single bed sized blanket, in all it's stripey blanket goodness. 
It is a wonderfully simple pattern, only consisting of double crochet (UK treble) no chaining at all after the initial starting chain, thanks to the chainless standing starting double crochet, which i learnt from a wonderful tutorial from Tamara over at Moogly. As you can see from the photograph, it is quite a wide blanket, and will be a tad bit wider when finished due to adding a border, which I've not settled on yet, but may just do a simple linen stitch or granny cluster border. Inspiration for both these blankets. comes from the ever colourful Lucy at Attic24

Next comes the ever growing, long time project, mitred square, memory blanket made with sock yarn scraps. I have added over 30 squares to this blanket so far this year, it has been an ongoing project that i started 2 years ago. A lot of the scraps of yarn for this blanket have come from friends, and a few from thrift store finds. each little square is knit with a memory of friendship, love and kindness, and a tad bit of insanity. It is a little bit narrower than the two crochet blankets above, but again, it will have a border when completed, and be a wonderfully warm little lap blanket or baby blanket.

Another long term project, started mid last year, is my scrapghan granny rug, made with various scraps of DK, Aran and Worsted weight yarns, as i have been working on other crochet projects, the little scraps that are not enough for anything else, but too much to just simple throw out, get added to this messy, but wonderful blanket, that is growing steadily and will be a great throw to snuggle under on the sofa come winter.

The small granny rug i started using the colour pooling yarn, has been left to the wayside as i complete these more colourful blankets, but i will definitely be completing a blanket with that yarn in the near future as it is so wonderfully soft and warm and i have enough of it to create a small throw.

Start of a new year.

Welcome everyone to 2019. After an eventful 2018, i am hoping that 2019 is a little less chaotic and hope to get more done this year.

4 days into the year and so far;

 I've knit 2ft of an infinity scarf for my mother using some yarn she picked up cheaply from factory seconds bags last week.

I've made more squares for my large double/queen sized blanket, bringing me to a total of 84 squares out of a total of 196 needed.
New Years Eve morning, saw me in the city at the craft store, spending a gift card i had, before the sale ended. I scored 6 more cakes of yarn to add to the blanket, for the price i would normally only get 4. which are now all wound into individual colour balls to add to the blanket. Which as can be seen below, i have broken down the 3x3 panels i had joined up, to mix the new, and any future colours in so that it blends nicely.

I've added a few more rounds to the scrapghan granny blanket using odds and ends of yarn from making smaller squares for the above blanket.

I have also started a new blanket, using colour pooling yarn, that refuses to pool correctly so, it is going to be solid granny square as the yarn refuses to behave.

In General, i've had a very productive, and crafty start to the New Year