Hello again, Away back in 2018, at the height of my love affair with Stylecraft Batik, I made three blankets one after the other, in this wonderful water colour effect yarn. The third one, my actual favourite, is this one - SpotsnStripes. It has taken me a while, but due to increasing demand I decided… Continue reading The Spots n Stripes Blanket
Beach Walk Blanket
Over the past few months, I’ve been walking every day on a beautiful and quiet beach only a few minutes’ walk from my home. Each day the colours, sights and sounds are different. Sometimes calm and sunny - sometimes grey, overcast and wild. But always beautiful. I’ve been capturing the moments on camera and sharing… Continue reading Beach Walk Blanket
May Blossom Blanket Video Tutorials
Here are four little video tutorials to go along with the pattern for the May Blossom and Autumn Gold Blankets ( see my last two posts). I hope they will help to explain some of the processes for you, although they are not at all difficult. I just found it easier to talk about them… Continue reading May Blossom Blanket Video Tutorials
May Blossom and Autumn Gold Blankets
I’ve updated this post to tell you that the pattern for the May Blossom and Autumn Gold blankets, which I put on here in April, has had a complete makeover. The original pattern had been saved on a rubbishy pdf reader which caused the file to do silly things and run to over 60 pages,… Continue reading May Blossom and Autumn Gold Blankets
Autumn Gold and May Blossom Blankets
Hello all, Those of you who follow me on Instagram and Facebook will know that I’ve been working on two blankets over the past few months, and they seem to have struck a chord with a lot of you, so much so that I promised I would try to produce a pattern for them to… Continue reading Autumn Gold and May Blossom Blankets
Side to Side Slip Stitch Join
Hi everyone I’ve been asked by a number of people who have seen my latest blanket on Instagram about the join I’m using. To my knowledge it isn’t a regular join, but one that I made up myself. I devised it for a blanket I was making in 2017, and really the liked the effect… Continue reading Side to Side Slip Stitch Join
The Shandon Blanket
The story This little blanket has been crocheted twice. The first time was last year when I had just discovered this lovely yarn, Stylecraft Batik and had plunged into blanket making with the naive enthusiasm of a rookie crocheter. There were three different blankets which I made with this yarn, one crocheted after another, and… Continue reading The Shandon Blanket