Blankets!

The first blog post is always the scariest, so please be gentle with me my lovelies. The first post of my first blog, EVER! Scary stuff! I have so much to show you and so many stories to tell about my crazy life that it is hard to know where to begin. But telling you about my crazy life and my adventures in crochet is what I want this blog to be about. I hope to share my crochet (and sometimes non crochet) makes with you, my own designs and possibly the odd video tutorial.

Soooo, what to show you for my first post.

Well, I am sat here on a cold but surprisingly dry Wednesday in October having survived the first half of half term, with a cup of coffee and a blanket over my knees and it struck me. Why not start with blankets. I LOVE blankets, both making them and snuggling under them. They take me forever to make as I get bored easily, so they really are a labour of love.

Below are some of the blankets that I have made (except for the granny square blanket on the end, my Nan made that one about a million years ago). Most of the blankets are made from well known crochet stitches done in the length and colours that I wanted them to be rather than from a pattern.


 From left to right they are, Granny square blanket, Flowers in a Row blanket, Chevron Blanket, Basket weave blanket, Larks foot blanket and another Basket weave blanket.
Here is the link for the Flowers in a Row Blanket http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/flowers-in-a-row

The blue basket weave blanket was made from a selection of blue vintage wool that I got from my Nan, I added the cream from my stash to break it up a bit. This was soon claimed by my son and my daughter wanted one too, so a pink, purple and cream basket weave blanket was needed.

The Chevron blanket was made of DK wool in colours to match my living room as a lightweight sofa throw. My dog loves pulling this blanket off the sofa and making a nest with it.

The larks foot blanket was made for my son, he picked the colours and colour change repeats. It is very soft and vey snuggly.

The Flowers in a Row blanket was originally going to be made to fit my double bed however, my daughter fell in love with the pattern and asked that it be for her, so this is single bed size.

I have also made 12 pointed star blankets using this pattern http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rainbow-ripple-baby-blanket 

Here is two of them

A Rainbow star for my son







A 12 pointed star for my daughter using the left over wool I bought to make the Flowers in a Row blanket

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my blankety makes and that it has inspired you to make your own little squishy peace of heaven to snuggle up with this Winter.  Cx