Rainbow Blanket

One of my younger cousins is having her first baby this July and I have a couple of things in the making, some knitting, a cross stitch baby sampler and over the past few weeks I worked on this Rainbow crochet blanket.  Several years ago I made one for a friend and had enough yarn left over to make this one.

The pattern and colour inspiration is from the Patchwork Heart and can be found here

I used all Stylecraft Yarn, which I'd purchased from the Wool Warehouse in the UK a few years ago. I really need to get back to finishing my Cosy Stripe blanket now.

See you soon xx

Cosy Stripes

This week I've been enjoying a bit of crochet on the Cosy Stripe blanket by Attic 24. I've been working on this for quite some time! I'm now up to row 32 of 90, each colour is a double "row". 

For this blanket I'm using the Stylecraft yarn pack I purchased from the Wool Warehouse in the UK. It was great value for money and the delivery time was just under a week here to New Zealand.
The yarn is so soft and squishy.

Have a lovely weekend friends! See you soon xx

Current Projects

I was so pleased to see another chart in this series has just been released and it will now be on its way in the post. I started stitching this chart, number 4,  last month when I was home from work on sick leave but only managed a small start. 

The linen for this design is 36 count Oaken by Picture this Plus.

This week I finished another ornament from Hands on Design's Chalkboard ornament series. I had planned to stitch one of these a month over the year but so far I've only done two!

My Cosy stripe blanket is underway  too:

A few rows each week and it might be done by summer, ha ha.

See you soon xx

Head Over Heels Socks

Finished a few weeks ago, these pretty socks are for my SIL. 

Details: Sugar Frost Socks by Vanillawool
Yarn: Head over Heels by Stylecraft, Eiger
Needle Size: 2.25mm
Size: Medium with some extra rows in the foot for length.

The Head over Heels yarn was lovely to knit with. I have another ball of a different colour in my stash and recently some new colours have been recently added to the range.

Have a lovely weekend xxx

Moorland Blanket

A few weeks ago I finally finished the Moorland Blanket. The pattern for this is by Lucy from Attic 24, which she popped up on her blog over several weeks earlier in the year.

I purchased the yarn pack, 15 shades of Stylecraft yarn, from the Wool Warehouse in the UK and it was started in early April.

It was a lot of fun zipping along the rows of the Neat Wave pattern, and for the edging I asked Hannah to pick out four of the colours, finishing with three border rows of double crochet and the very last row was slip stitches.

Once again, I found the Stylecraft yarn a pleasure to crochet with, so soft and squishy. I have another of Lucy's yarn packs, the Cosy Stripe blanket, which I'm very tempted to get underway, but I have too many stitching projects calling my name at the moment!

See you soon x

All Sorts of Things

Some new sock yarn arrived from the Wool Warehouse in the UK recently, mostly Opal but I also purchased two balls of the Stylecraft sock yarn to try out sometime.

Just as well I've been having a major sort through my craft cupboards lately to make way for all this lovely yarn. I've donated quite a few bags of all sorts of crafty goodies to our local op shop - magazines, bits and pieces that I'll never use or not use because my tastes, and interests have changed. Sure feels good!

Yay, one sock down, one to go. I've put these aside for now to start on a pair of socks for my lovely mother in law. They definitely won't be finished in time for Mother's Day, which is this coming Sunday in New Zealand, but maybe in time for her June birthday.

This is Part 2 of the Moorland Blanket, which I finished last week. Part 3 is almost done now. I think I've mentioned this is going to be a gift for my cousin Donna's 40th birthday in a few weeks time. It might not be finished in time but it won't be far off, so I thought I'd print one of these off to give to her :)

A new variety of chocolate arrived at our local supermarket last week, Toffee Milk Bar. Whittakers chocolate, any sort, lol, is a particular favourite in our house so we tried it out - a big thumbs up from all of us.

In other news, two busy weekends coming up for us - Glenn and I are flying to Auckland this Friday with friends for a couple of days. Then next weekend we'll be helping my parents move house, and the cool thing, they are actually moving in to our street!

See you soon x

Easter Exchange & Crafting

Every year for quite some time now, Kath and I have exchange a little stitched gift at Easter. 

Some years it takes me ages to decide what to stitch for Kath but this time I knew straight away, as I had the pattern ready and waiting since last year, Spring Greetings Bouquet by With Thy Needle & Thread. You can see it here. 

This is the sweet little pillow Kath gave me, Peep by the Prairie Schooler.

I just love how Kath has finished it, and the green fabric is just perfect!

Over the Easter break I finished this new Lizzie Kate design:

Basket by Lizzie Kate

stitched on mocha 32 count belfast linen with recommended threads.

I also got a few rows done on a new crochet blanket I have underway, the Moorland Blanket by Lucy, Attic 24.  This is going to be gift for my cousin Donna's 40th birthday. I purchased the yarn pack from the Wool Warehouse in the UK.

Part one is nearly finished and once again, I'm really enjoying crocheting with the lovely Stylecraft yarn.

See you soon x

Rainbow Baby Blanket

I'm so happy with how this little baby blanket turned out, how can you not be, with all the colours in the rainbow in it! It will soon posted away with a few other gifts to my dear friend in the UK for her new arrival, a sweet little baby boy, born at the end of February.

For the colour inspiration I followed the suggestions from the Patchwork Heart Blog, a wonderful source of all things crochet.

                                       

I used 15 shades of the lovely Stylecraft DK yarn, with Parchment as the neutral colour in between rows, with a 3.5mm hook. There is plenty of yarn left over so it would easily make another blanket or two, I just need to stock up on some more parchment.

I've already decided on my next crochet blanket -Lucy from Attic 24's Morland Blanket, which I hope to get underway very soon.

See you soon x

Dolly Crochet Blanket

This little granny square dolly blanket will be soon on its way to a sweet little girl in the UK. 

I used the left over Stylecraft yarn from Hannah's cupcake blanket and randomly pulled out the colours of my crochet bag as the blanket grew.

For the edging I used the same border pattern from the Cupcake blanket pattern.

Thank you to Hannah's "kids" for being the models, lol.

Have a lovely weekend. See you soon xx

Cupcake Blanket

Back in early May I purchased an Attic 24 Cupcake blanket yarn pack from the Wool Warehouse in the UK. This was the first time I'd purchased any wool from there and I was very impressed with how quickly it arrived here to New Zealand. Cost wise, the Stylecraft wool worked out to be less than $4 NZ per 100 gram ball so it was very economical for the 15 balls.

I just loved all the colours and the yarn was so lovely and soft to work with.

I worked on the blanket on and off again over the winter months, a couple of rows each week. I didn't complete the whole entire 90 "rows" suggested in the patterns, that's two rows of each colour, as I could see by "row" 75 I was getting a bit low in most of the colours. I think it was row 78 I stopped at to begin the five border rows.




As you can see, it's a single bed size and looks wonderful in Hannah's bedroom.

She just loves it, and thinks it's super soft and squishy!

Now I'm very tempted to order another one of the Attic 24 yarn packs, but perhaps for next winter since our summer is on its way.