Wednesday 28 October 2015

What have I been working on recently

In between some of my other craft projects I have been completing a crochet commission which is why it may appear that I haven't been crafting much recently.
A friend of my Grandma's wanted to make some blankets to send to local care home so she got busy knitting and ask me if I could crochet three blankets to add to the pile.
 The blankets I created were worked in granny squares each five rows deep and the blankets were made up to the size of 8 by 8. For this first blanket I worked in solid colour and simply mixed squares each with a grey border. they were arranged in diagonal lines.
For the next blanket worked in solid colour and varying mixed squares with no boarder. and arranged the squares in lines coming from each corner.
 The last of the three was made up in diagonal lines alternating solid colour and very mixed colour and pattern squares I really liked the effect this created and used up alot of scraps of wool.
After completing the three crochet blankets the friend asked if I could sew together and edge the knitted squares they had been creating. The bag contained 220 squares so I am turning them in to three blankets two 7 squares by 10 squares and one 8 squares by 10 squares. this first one had been created in diagonal lines and the next is being done in an oblong stripe pattern the last one will be more random as it uses up all that is left.











This has been a really fun and colourful commission and its nice to know that all the effort is helping people.

Be back soon with some more blogging about another new crochet project and all the Christmas crafting happening for the shop.