Colour Rush Blanket

I finished two expressive bright blankets!
The big one for my daughter with unusual for me yellow coloured border.

I'm very happy with this blanket because it is so colourful and bright, as well it was just an excellent mood enhancer while I was crocheting it.

Here and here you can see a few pictures about the progress.
I didn't have any pattern ideas when I've started, only thing I wanted was to start with a few granny squares joined in a rectangle.

So a quick description for those who want to create something like this blanket:

• I started with two granny squares in 6 rounds each, then I joined them together
• and made around them 9 granny stitch rounds.
• I started making tiny granny squares in 3 rounds each and joined them around the blanket using join-as-you-go method (here and through). 30 little squares in total.

• 15 rounds of granny stitch around.
• 12 circle-in-a-squares in 6 rounds each. The pattern for these squares is the same which I've used for making Spring Granny Blanket. These squares attached on two short opposite edges of  the blanket only.

• 21 rounds of granny stitch around whole blanket.
• Using the same colour as for the border 1 round of sc, 3 sc in each corner.
• The border! (see the link below the following picture)

I fell in love with this border as soon as I saw it here (free Ravelry download).

 It turns out fairly large in size 140x180cm!

I've used for it almost 1.4kg of acrylic yarn in 12 different bright and yummy shades of Stylecraft Special DK mostly. Ravelry project.

I think it is enough for today so the second finished blanket I'll leave for the next time :)

Have a wonderful day 

and

take care of each other!

Olga 

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Colourful Blankets wip

The colourful blanket for my oldest daughter is growing very fast during the last few weeks.  Now I know the size which I want for this blanket, it should be 130*160cm so I have to crochet only 20 rounds approximately and then a border.

Another one project I've started. It's a diagonal granny stitch blanket in three colours. It will be in my Etsy shop when will be finished. 

Take care of each other...

Yours 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 Baby Blankets

Two beautiful Baby Blankets I've made last month...
Circle in a Square Baby Blanket

A 4 mm hook

100% Acrylic yarn. Mostly Stylecraft Special DK, Patons FAB

I love this border! It's so pretty, isn't it? The pattern of it I took from this cardigan, I've made a while ago.

The next one is the Granny Square Baby Blanket ↓

Cream color for the joining and the border #73 from Around the Corner Crochet Borders by Eddie Eckman book.

Oh how I was addicted with making these colourful squares and circles...

 I'll show you a little of it's progress. Below is the first citron and orange circles for the first blanket ↓

The moment when the white yarn for the joining was used up... ↓

Colourful collage of all the circles and the first row ↓

08/06/2013:: Edited to add the link to my next short post about  the joining method I've used.

Sunny day... work in progress outside... It's me... ↓

...and a half of the finished blanket. The circles are just three rounds of double crochet stitches, but the second and third rounds are crocheted in the wrong side.
09/06/2013:: Edited to add a link to my pattern for the Circle in a Square. It's also can be find on Ravelry.

Here is the squares for the second blanket. A traditional granny square, but I've turned my square after each round made. ↓

Joined with cream color... m-m-m... Again the same situation... the yarn was used up when the last row of squares was left to join them  ↓

So... now I'm working on the same blanket but adult size. Stay tuned... I'll show you it's progress very soon...

Have a sunny day!

Olga

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Slippers and (c)owls :)

 The evenings will be even colder than now very soon, so it's time to think of something warm for our feet... Thinking about socks I don't want to knit but want to crochet them. I've never done this. So I decided to try it for me. But  a pair of slippers, no socks. I chose DROPS Crochet Slippers. I took a pure Latvian wool yarn. May be you remember my only one experience in a hand dyeing yarn? I took this yarn and another in light pink color and was crocheting holding two strands of these yarn together with a 6mm hook. It came a nice color combination. Actually the slippers are ready a while ago. Well... my feet doesn't feel cold at the evenings while I'm crocheting something else.

Also the second pair for my 3 y.o. daughter. With a flower in her favorite green color.

Sitting in my new warm slippers on a couch I have crocheted a lot of different hats and scarves. I've started selling my work!  I dreamed about it... So that's why I forgotten about my blog. Some news I'm writing on my Facebook or sharing photos at my Instagram. And now I'm dreaming about my own shop on Etsy or Dawanda.
In these dreams one day I found a lovely blog Repeat CrAfter Me, where Sarah shares with us her crochet, baking and other DIY ideas. And I found there a nice crochet pattern for the owl earflap hat. And I made 12  hats so far..... First of them of'course for my daughter(I'm writing about it here), and the rest of them I was doing to order... I can't believe... And I need to show you some of them....

I've worked with chunky yarn and a 5,5 mm hook or DK yarn holding two strands together.

Also I fell in love with the cowls! The granny stripes or granny squares...
The first I made with 7 granny squares in 6 rounds each + 1 round for the border on each side. (my WIP short post here)

The following two cowls are granny stripes, for which I began with ch 150 joining in a ring with DK yarn and a 5,5mm hook. Then 3 dc in each 3rd stitch around, join. Then in the each of the rounds 3dc in the space between of the each 3dc-clusters.

I made 14 rounds in total.

Yesterday I've finished another three owl hats and now I can continue to work on a diagonal stitch scarf for me --->

or may be it will be a cowl... again... :))

See you soon... 

Have a wonderful week with a nice weather! 

Hug you  Xx

Olga 

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Take care of yourself and your loved ones!

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