Ripple Blanket

After many months of getting a busy Christmas out of the way I am updating you with a project I started on the 10th December 2011 and finished on the 15th January 2012.
My friend, NellieP and I decided to both conquest a ripple blanket. As usual we went full on and went for blankets that were the size of a king sized beds !

We both decided to go for colours that represented the seas, rivers and oceans. I hope you like this blanket as much as I do.

Here is a selection of colours I was deciding on. All of wool is Stylecraft Special DK from Mason's haberdashery.

There are a few balls of Twinkle that I never ended up using in the blanket.
The 'Ripple' blanket pattern was obtained from Attic24's neat ripple pattern. ( A big thank you to Lucy at Attic24 for listing free tutorials)

Here are some more images of the final blanket.

The Ripple blanket takes up pretty much all the floor space in our living room. I think I have done pretty well achieving a blanket of this size in such short a space of time!


Statistics about the blanket: It measures 212cm in length and 242cm in width.
I used these colours :
Greens                                 Blues                        Other shades
Bottle 1009                       Aster 1003                White 1001              
Khaki 1027                       Midnight 1011           Black 1002
Green 1116                      Cloud Blue 1019       Graphite 1063
Teal 1062                         Sherbert 1034            Silver 1203
Meadow 1065                  Turquoise 1068              
Spring green 1316            Royal 1117
Mint 956                          Denim 1302
Emerald 916                    Aspen 1422
Lime 882
Bottle Green 839
                                    
These are the websites I use to purchase my wool supplies :
Mason's, Peachey Ethknits, Purplelinda. 956,916,882,839 were all purchased from Peachey Ethknits.


I hope you like my new blanket. I have another blanket that I have started that will be blogged very soon.  x Happy hooking !

African Flower Blanket

Hello ! My, my how time has simply flown by and I have not updated my blog. How tardy of me. Well, I have been a busy little bumbler. I have finished what I can only describe as a blanket of epic proportions. This is MY blanket, that's right, it is all mine, mine, mine ! But of course I am sharing this with you lovely, lovely people. It was a real pleasure making this blanket. I will get to the tutorial soon but for now here is the finished piece.

I do hope you like my blanket. I started this blanket on the 24th of March 2011 and finished on the 3rd August 2011. I have joined 188 flowers. I used regular DK yarn in an array of colours. I hope to blog again and explain the process and work that went in to this blanket.

This has been my biggest crochet project to date. I thank you all for taking the time to read about my crochet adventure. x

Baby Blanket

I made this baby blanket for my sister in law who had a baby girl this March. This is a classic granny square continued for 22 rounds. I used this wool from Peachey Ethnits. Tiny Tots 50g wool. 5 balls in total-250g, Colour 948 Candy. I was not sure if she was going to have a boy or a girl so I chose this shade as it had blue, pink yellow and green in the wool. You can see it in the picture above.

 

I used DK Bonus wool for the border. I used the colours that featured in the wool. I Double Crocheted all around the border. A row in mint green and a row in yellow. The pink border was crocheted in a picot stitch. Chaining 5 and one DC in the 3 DC and continuing this all the way round. A blue border was intended to be added but I waited to see if it was a boy or girl. As you can see it was unnecessary as she had a beautiful little girl.

Ruqayyah

This image was taken at the hospital the day she was born. Here she is squeezing her tiny little eyes tight because of the flash on the camera.. bless xx

Solid Granny Square Blanket

Hello everyone, It has been a while and I apologise for not having blogged sooner. I wanted to share this blanket that I completed last year in September 2010. This is my first large crochet project. 

I had a lot of spare wool that I hadn't used and decided to make a blanket to use up all the excess. I started browsing online for ideas and tutorials and came across this tutorial by Crochet Mania Theresa . Her video tutorials that have been posted on YouTube. They are very useful and helped me to get to grips with learning certain crochet techniques. (A huge thank you to Theresa). 

I worked a solid granny (as listed in her tutorial) Solid Granny Motif .

I continued to work the granny square by changing colour and working three rounds of double crochet . I used a crochet hook size 3.5mm (UK). I continued working the granny square by working three rounds in each colour I had. The wool is all Dk Bonus wool that was ordered from Peachey Ethnits .

The blanket formed a perfect square. It looked fine as it was but I wanted a rectangle blanket, some thing to throw over my bed or throw over a sofa. I decided to continue the colour stripes width ways at each end of the blanket. I worked three rows of each colour to match what I had already crocheted. 

                                 The blanket has been laid on my single bed.

I used a total of 13 colours. The border was blanket stitched in black wool.

It is amazing to see this now and see how far I have come. I see errors in this blanket that I never saw before but I love it all the same and that's what makes it so special to me. I reflect on my early work and like the simplicity and effectiveness of this blanket. It looks far more complicated than it actually was to make. All that is required is time and determination to keep going (especially when it starts to get larger and each round takes that much longer to do).

Yup. This is 'My Tiny Box Room'.

Here it is on show in my very neutrally coloured room. I reckon the colours POP ! and SPLASH ! and it brings my room to life.

Here is a sneaky peak of a project underway...

Afrikaan Flower.

Amigurumi Kitten

Hey there. Hope your all keeping well. Thank's for visiting my blog . Just want to share this crochet 'Ami' (Amigurumi) kitten.
I started this project using the kitten pattern in a book by Brigitte Read called 'Super Super cute crochet'. ( I have listed this book in 'Books I recommend' See below). I used this expensive 'Alpaca wool in shade 'Storm'.
http://www.laughinghens.com/knitting-wool-yarn.asp?yarnid=1288 It started off ok and then it turned in to what I can only describe as a grey mess....an expensive grey mess. I spent a couple of hours trying to get the head right. I got so fed up of this project I stuffed it in a bag tried to forget about it.
After about a week I revisited the sad, big headed, grey mess and took pity on it. I assessed where I had left it and decided to stuff it with poly fibre fill to see what it looked like. It didn't look too bad. I unstuffed the kitten's head, added the biggest safety eyes I had. I wanted to give the kitten green eyes but didn't have any green eyes big enough. The nose was embroidered using normal black Dk wool. I sewed the paws and tail on after rolling poly fibre fill around pipe cleaners. ( Pipe cleaners in the limbs help when you wish to pose your ami project).
The detail of the whiskers and pads on the feet were added on last.

I think it turned out pretty cute and my perseverance paid off.... eventually. :D !

My very first Amigurumi.

Here is my very, very first 'Amigurumi' 編みぐるみ, literally "Knitted stuffed toy".

After making crochet hats for what seemed like months I applied the circle I had been repeating in to a 3d Sculpt and went for a fun pink iced donut. Hmmmm.....yummy. I was very pleased with the success of my first 'Ami' project..and I used no patterns !