I haven’t done much crafting in the past few weeks. I’ve been busy doing other things!
But, I finally managed to get something off my hook. It was the easiest pattern I had on the go as I didn’t need to look at a pattern, being only a simple Granny Square Blanket. I didn’t have to think about what I was doing, I just carried on crocheting!
I used up spare yarn, 1 x blue ball and 2 x pink balls of STYLECRAFT SPECIAL DK, which you can get here from The Knitting Network, if you’re so inclined. I used 2 x 1435 Bright Pink and I can’t remember the blue colour (but it was a nice bright, almost neon shade).
It’s not huge and I still have a bit of each colour left, I just didn’t think there was enough to go another round in each colour!
So, those scraps have now been added to my scraps bag and I’m almost at the point where I’ll have enough DK weight yarn to make a blanket completely out of scraps. Yay!
Not sure what to do with this one, maybe I’ll donate it again to Knit For Peace or a similar charity once I have a few to go in a box together.
The colours look all blown out with the lighting, but they are actually quite bright in real life.
I agree, it’s not very big! But it can be a pram blanket or even a doll’s blanket!
I can’t help thinking how gorgeous this would look as a cushion…maybe I’ll have to look into that!
Hope you’re having a crafty weekend x
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You know when you have a list a mile long of WIPs to finish but something else comes along that just HAVE to start working on immediately? This is one of those times!
I met up with a friend a couple of Saturdays ago and went to York for the day which was nice to catch up as I haven’t seen her for ages.
I made her a lap blanket years ago which I always thought was a little on the small side but she says it’s the perfect size to put on her lap whilst watching TV. Well that got me thinking…
And now I started a larger C2C (Corner To Corner) blanket for her in chunky yarn.
I’m on the decreases now (when you crochet a C2C blanket you basically make a triangle to the length and width you want the finished size to be and then decrease to make a square if that makes any sense?!). So, I have about 2/3 of a gorgeous chunky blanket done!
This project just pushed its way in front of all the others on my hooks and needles!
It’s not massive or a large bed blanket by any means, but I’m confident that it’s a lot bigger than the first one I made years ago. Also that other old blanket was a plain old granny square and this one looks a little bit more complicated if I do say so myself, so it even looks like my skills have grown!
It’s James C. Brett Marble Chunky yarn which is one of my all time favourite yarns! And the colours look more varied and richer in real life…they look quite cool colours on the photos.
[Edit: I managed to finish it completely and send it off last week so it’s all good. Of course, I forgot to take a photo…but you get the idea of how it looked from the pics below!]
This is my first finished piece of the year. And it’s just a simple Granny Square blanket!
I was trying to use up some spare baby wool I had lying about and I used 2 colours of the same type of yarn. You can’t really tell though as it’s all variegated. It looks alright, if I do say so myself!
But everyone I know who has a baby has already received a blanket from me! So, this one is going to charity I think.
I started it and did most of it (until it got too big) at work on my break! So, I feel like I’ve done something productive in otherwise wasted hours…I know, I know, it’s not all about the productivity, but this was something to keep me sat at the table and feel like I was doing something, rather than just scrolling on my phone all the time!
Anyway…here it is draped over my desk chair!
I used a 4mm hook and maybe 5 1/2 balls of wool? I can’t remember the exact amount but it was about that and I lobe how it turned out!
Now, I just need to find a local baby donation centre to give it to, but I think I’m going to hold on to it a while and make a few other things with spare yarn too!
It’s been living in my knitting projects bag for the last few weeks (oh the irony-it’s not knitting, it’s crochet!) which incidentally you can get here in my Society 6 shop or the same design here in my RedBubble shop.
I think I might make a separate post about print on demand products I’ve designed and bought to do with crafting because there’s quite a few!
But that’s it for now, just a quick show and tell! Hope you’re all having a great weekend and getting lots of crafting done!
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This was a really simple Corner To Corner crochet baby blanket for a friend who is expecting soon. It’s so fluffy and soft!
It’s been nice doing a bit of crochet again as lately it’s all been about the knitting!
I used 4 balls of James C. Brett Fluttery Chunky, you can get it here from The Knitting Network (affiliate link). I like it, it’s easy to crochet with (I used a 5mm hook). The only thing I would say is to get the balls with the same dye lot. I didn’t think it would matter with a chinky fluffy yarn like this one, but it does!
I bought 3 balls one day and went back another day for the fourth…you can tell close up the different dye lots. It’s not super obvious to someone who hasn’t made it…but I can still see the difference!
Here’s a couple of pictures of it below:
You can’t really see the pattern clearly with the fluffy wool, but the gaps aren’t as big in real life as they look in the pics!
Now I just need to finish the knitted cardiganI started a few days ago and another few other baby bits and bobs and then I’m finished with baby makes for a little bit.
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After finishing my orange knitted jumper last week, I now have more time to concentrate on knitting other items. Here’s a list of what’s on my needles at the moment.
Sock Yarn Shawl
I’m doing a simple garter stitch shawl in 4ply sock yarn. I started this at the end of last year, and I’ve only just picked it up again, but honestly, there’s no rush for this, so it’s my ‘do a few rows here and there’ kind of project. I love the colours and I’ve only done about 30 rows. Slow going but fun going!
The yarn is by West Yorkshire Spinners (Passionfruit Cooler colour)and you can get it here from The Knitting Network:
I cast on the first sock yesterday and I’ve just done a rows of ribbing so far. I hate using DPNs but I’m determined to get the hang of socks. I have so much sock yarn to use up!
I’m doing a basic vanilla sock yarn pattern by Winwick Mum and it’s going well so far.
I’ve done a lone, single sock before many years ago. That took me 3 weeks to do and put me off doing the other one! So, I’m starting all over again, with a different pattern and yarn and we’ll try and make it to 2 socks this time, shall we?!
Baby Cardigan Test Knit
A friend is having a baby in December and I wanted to try a raglan cardigan pattern. I really hate raglan patterns, but I like the look of the finished object! I tried to knit myself a raglan jumper a few years ago and struggled with sewing it together as I found the sleeves really awkward!
This is just a quick knit in a newborn size and so far I’ve done the fronts and back pieces and 1 sleeve, with the 2nd sleeve rib done and now I’m working on the main part of it. Then I just need to sew it all together and do the button bands and neck edgings.
If I like the look of it and think it wasn’t too bad to sew up, then I’ll cast on another one in a different colour yarn! With matching hat, mitts and bootees of course!
Baby Blanket
I think quite a few posts ago I said I wanted to knit the same friend an entrelac blanket. Well, that’s been changed slightly as I think that would take me AGES to make and 2 months isn’t enough time! So, I’m doing a different lace pattern blanket and that’s going to be quite small, so ideal for a pram. And I’m also making a squishy crochet blanket (see below) which will be bigger and have more uses.
I chose a dark pink and purple held double as I’m sure she’ll be getting a lot of baby pink items (for a girl) and I thought this was a different option to stand out. We’ll see what it looks like finished.
I tried to hold it up against the light so you could see the pattern, not sure if you can but it looks good so far.
Crochet Baby Blanket
A simple corner to corner crochet blanket. I have 3 balls of chunky yarn, I might see if I can do 2 for the increases and 2 for the decreases (obviously I need to get another ball of yarn).
So, that’s it for now.
Christmas is coming up and I wanted to knit a few small baubles and things, but honestly, I knitted so much Christmas stuff last year, that it isn’t even a priority right now. The baby things first and then I might see if I can cast on a tank top (sweater vest) for my Dad…I might get it started before Christmas, but I probably won’t get it finished!
And Christmas socks for me with Christmas sock yarn…and I have lots of spare DK yarn, so something to do with that…and neon yarn…
So many things I want to start, but I have 5 things on the go for definite now!
I think that’s enough to be getting on with…
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It is done. Finished. Completed. All the ends woven in and everything!
I started this at the end of last year with the last scraps of 2020’s Christmas knits.
Typically, there wasn’t quite enough to finish it in one go, so I waited until now to buy a couple more balls of yarn to finish it off.
It’s not the biggest blanket I’ve ever made, but it’s certainly one of the prettier ones! And so festive!
It’s a simple Granny Square pattern. The old ones are the best!
I really like the colours of this one. But, as I have loads of homemade blankets already, I think I’m going to donate this one to charity somewhere. I’ve already donated to Knit For Peace in the past, so this time I think I’ll have a look at Woolly Hugs.
They send blankets to UK hospitals, both to maternity wards and for older children and teenagers too.
Here is what it looks like as a finished object.
It’s difficult to get an idea of the true size, but I’d say it was just over a metre squared.
I really love it and it’s not immediately obvious that I used two different kinds of red yarn!
You can get the yarn from The Knitting Network here:
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It’s 9:30pm on Monday and I haven’t posted anything.
Not the most terrible thing to notice, except I’m trying to post every day in August…so this is my ARGH I HAVEN’T POSTED ANYTHING post!
This weekend I found a crochet Christmas blanket I started at the end of last year, just as a way to use up some spare yarn. As is always the case in such projects, I didn’t have enough to finish, so I had to buy more.
The yarn came on Friday and I’ve done a few rounds already – it’s getting bigger so the rounds take longer. You can read where I got the yarn from in the previous post here:
Here is what the blanket looks like so far. It looks pretty good!
And I’ve also been doing more on my cross stitch project which is also using up spare threads and whatever fabric I had leftover from previous projects.
I don’t know if you can tell what progress I’ve made from previous posts, but I’ve definitely hit the halfway point now.
It’s just random stripes. No pattern!
So that’s what I’ve been up to this weekend craft-wise. Alas no knitting done!
I’ll see you tomorrow – hopefully I’ll be a bit more prepared, haha!
So, after me saying I wouldn’t cast anything new on anytime soon. After me saying I have no crochet projects planned anytime soon. Here I am with a new crochet granny square blanket.
I looked at the few balls of Christmas yarn I had leftover from last year (and my recently finished jumper) and suddenly on the spur of the moment I decided to crochet a granny square blanket to use up the last bit of my Christmas stash.
So far, so good. It’s DK weight yarn with a 4mm hook, so it’s not super duper fast, but still it’s getting there. If it isn’t that big after I’ve used up all the yarn I have, I will just put it aside and maybe buy some more nearer to Christmas.
I just want the space in my materials and project tub that’s all!!! 🙂
I’m incredibly boring and pathetic in that I like the basic stocking stitch for knitting and a basic granny square for crochet.
I know, I know…such a vanilla crafter!! But there is nothing so beautiful as a swatch of stocking stitch…
Last year I knitted my first ever baby cardigan and a baby blanket for a friend who had a baby, using the same yarn (I can’t remember, was it a Stylecraft yarn?) and I completed my first ever C2C (corner to corner) crochet blanket at the same time.
I love the way the stocking stitch turned out in this yarn – too bad I hadn’t quite mastered mattress stitch at that point so the sewing up of the cardigan was a bit wonky.
I also love the combinations of different textures you can make with only knit and purl stitches.
Woolly Orbit 