This is on my sewing table at the moment. The house sewing box is from Cath Kidston. The crocheted jam jar cozies are inspired by the talented Lucy at Attic 24. And finally the pin cushion was made by me!
It certainly brightens my day.
As promised here are a couple of the half decent pictures of the ripple (Another Attic 24 pattern). I’m not sure what it is but the colour seems a bit weird. Anyway it is all finished up and sitting on the back of the chair waiting for the colder evenings which I fear are getting close.
Be assured the colour is delightful and it is such a lovely blanket, all soft and snuggly and suprisingly heavy.
This last shot shows the blanket sitting next to the hexagon (Lucy from Attic 24’s pattern). Gorgeous crochet side by side.
Now back to crocheting the next blanket….
I have decided that my hexagon blanket is big enough to cover me and keep me cozy so I have moved on to edging. I am so excited that it is nearly finished, nothing like the end of a project in sight to get you motivated.
I had originally thought that I would edge it in the yellow that was in the centres, but when I came to it I wasn’t sure.
I tried the scallop edging from the Vintage Crochet book but felt it was too big.
I asked a couple of bloggy friends and slept on it (not the blanket – the question of what to do) and then had a go at edging with purple.
I checked out Lucy’s hex and her edging was neater and smaller so I tried making it smaller and I am happier with the result
I love it now and if only I hadn’t ran out of wool I would be hooking now instead of blogging!
Oh well, the blanket will have to wait because we have a busy weekend. My little girl is 5 on Monday and we are having 10 of her girlfriends round to make necklaces and play games on Saturday. My parent are flying over tomorrow for a fun filled weekend of celebrations, so not alot of blogging, sewing or crocheting for me this weekend.
Whatever you do enjoy your weekend!
To say crochet is my new and most favouritist thing is an understatement. On New Years Eve the jolly postman popped a lovely squashy package in the mailbox and it was full of wool from here YAY. I have been dreaming of making a crochet afghan ever since I had seen this. Before Christmas I had spent a few evenings using up some old wool making these.
But now this is what I have been up to during the past few evenings whilst catching up on all the TV we recorded over the holidays. (A girl has to keep up with Eastenders!) I hope to make them into a blanket like this, by Lucy at Attic 24 where she incidentally has a super easy tutorial on how to make the hexagons.
So 23 down, rather a large number to go. Lucy made 159, which sounds a heck of a lot but I am loving them at the moment and lets hope the love affair continues.
Until the next time…..
