How Little is Necessary for Happiness

I can not be silent...
Just a short post to show you my new luxury yarn received yesterday. It's Noro Silk Garden Lite. I dreamed of some sort of Noro yarn for a long time. Now I'm a happy owner of six balls of it.

Of course I'll use this lovely yarn for crocheting something for me. It will be a cowl.

At the moment I frogged this rows and now I'm crocheting chain rows using plain black wool.
Another one thing that made me more happiest today is first issue received of Simply Crochet Magazine on which I subscribed for the first time. Hooray! Do you see a small present I got along with the magazine - pack of big wooden buttons!

Night-night... I'm going to enjoy reading my new magazine  :)

Take care of yourself  and your loved ones!

Olga

♡

A New Blanket WIP

Work In Progress

One day I was enjoying the Pinterest crochet colourful world and my oldest daughter saw one so pretty blanket and asked me to crochet the same for her. I always happy to work with bright and yummy colours, so I picked the colours at the same second and started to crochet. So... I stole the colour palette... again... 

 

I started with two granny squares(6 rounds each) joined together in a rectangle, then I was working with simple granny stitch and after 9 rounds made I decided to add one strip of small squares. A little note: I'm turning my work after each round made while crocheting granny stitch rounds. 

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Have you noticed that the Halloween is coming very very soon? Have you already started to prepare for this holiday?
 In my shop I have two new items for the Halloween.

Crazy Halloween Coasters

 and

Halloween Triangle Bunting

See you soon with the updates about the blanket and my other projects!
Have a wonderful weekend!!!
Olga
♡

Bright Diagonals Baby Blanket

Today I want to show you this blanket crocheted in traditional granny stitch but in diagonal way. It is easy to work and aah... so lovely result, isn't it? The colour inspiration came to me from this Ripple Blanket. Thanks Sher! ♡

For the main colour I took Dune (Big Value by King Cole). From the bottom left corner to the top right corner of the picture above the colours are: Turquoise, Apple, Sunshine, Candy, Matador, Plum. These all are Stylecraft Special, except of Robin for Apple and Patons FAB for Candy. All yarn are acrylic in DK weight. The hook I've crocheted with is 5mm. Last time I don't use the 4mm hook for that weight yarn. With a larger hook the blanket turns out more loose and airy. I like it! As well it's more quickly then with a smaller hook  :)

For the border I made 3 rounds:

Rnd 1::  3dc in each ch3-space; for the corner - 3dc, ch2, 3dc.

Rnd 2:: (dc, ch, dc) in each space betwee the 3dc groups; in corner space - dc, ch, dc, ch2, dc, ch,dc.

Rnd 3:: 6dc in the corner, (sc in next ch-space, 5dc in next ch-space) - repeat.

My sister ordered me this blanket to make a present for her friend's baby.

Click here to find the pattern

 how to crochet the granny diagonals (corner start granny square).

See you soon!

Have a wonderful day!

 Olga

♡

Link parties:

Annemarie's Haakblog

The Crochet Boulevard

One Artsy Mama

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