Well the blanket is finally finished. Taken much longer than I expected due to ill health but really pleased with it. It would have been good if the weather had been better for taking pictures but not wanting to risk having to wait a few weeks to take that final photograph, I have done the… Read More Sacred Space – part 9 “Finished!”
I did finally manage to finish part 8 later on Monday and, although the weather was atrocious and the light levels very low, I managed to get an acceptable photograph so I could continue with part 9 that evening. The reason I had not managed to finish it sooner was the last but one round.… Read More Sacred Space part 8
I have now finished part seven of the CAL and thanks to a brief brightening of the sky in the midst of storm Dennis, I was able to take an adequate photograph. As you can see, each corner gives me many ends to sew in. Only two more parts to go. I have neglected the… Read More Sacred Space part 7
Recently I realised that I needed to buy more of three of the colours I was using for my Sacred Space blanket or I would run out. Buying on-line is not the best idea when you want so few balls of a relatively cheap yarn and anyway I like to support local shops, although the… Read More Progressing with Blanket
I have finally finished part six of the Sacred Space blanket CAL. The really crazy thing is that having finished the corner with the cream yarn, now that I had it. I realised that I had followed the colour choices for this part of the pattern slavishly, in that the last two rows were in… Read More Sacred Space part 6
The name of the design for this Crochet-along that I have decided to join is “Sacred Space”. For me the most Sacred Space of all is the natural world that surrounds us and I think you will find this reflected in my choices and treatment. As I showed you before I started out with these… Read More Sacred Space blanket CAL!!
In December I shared my pictures of my ‘violet’ garden as well as some showing what is flowering now. I also, finally, finished the CAL blanket and showed you how it looks with my leafy edging. There were pictures of my pre-Christmas cooking of fruit cake and stollen as well as the snowflake decorations that… Read More December Montage
The light has been so bad today that I have tried all sorts of things to get a decent picture and this is the best I can do. But rather than put off the post until the light is better (Who knows when! 🙂 ) I am using what I have. I won’t be using… Read More CAL blanket: Final View
The other day I had an idea for a new project! Yes I know I don’t really need another project to add to my list. 🙂 But this one has been in the back of my mind for a long time. It is to make a crochet cloth for my pine dining table. I have… Read More A New Snowflake!
In November I spent a lot of time on my two crochet blankets: the spectrum granny ripple that I managed to finish and the CAL cottage garden one which still needs an edge. I also crocheted a bauble for the Christmas tree. (Actually I am also doing a bit of crochetting presents but I can’t… Read More November Montage
I made a special effort this week and managed to complete three rows and thus finish the main part of the blanket. It was so hard to photograph the whole blanket that the above picture is actually a combination of two photographs. Then there is finishing off all those ends (I make it 234 in… Read More Join Along: Week six
It’s been quite a struggle to complete another two rows for this week. It is also getting harder to photograph the blanket above the centre to make it evenly rectangular, so I have given up trying. The bigger it gets the more I like it but you have probaly seen the best of it up… Read More Join Along: Week five
Another two rows completed (over half way). Lighting really bad again!! I am really getting to quite like it. When I first did some experimental joining. I thought I liked the joining method as well as any other but was not sure if I was going to like the finished blanket. Now I think that… Read More Join Along: Week four
In October I shared with you the Orange and Yellow flowers of my Rainbow Garden. I showed you my first crochet cushion cover that I had made for my son’s new flat. I displayed a large number of the photographs I had taken on my Spanish pilgrimage “In the footsteps of St. Teresa of Avila… Read More October Montage
I have completed another two rows this past week. I am pleased with how it is coming along and the general pattern. And also the way the flat braid edging frames the individual blocks. I am aware that I haven’t done any other post between my CAL ones but I have been very busy working… Read More Join Along: Week three
This is how far I have got after another week of joining. Well I am spending about half my time on it like I did when I was making the blocks. The light was bad and there aren’t very many places where I can lay it out, so I have to apologise for the difference… Read More Join Along: Week two
This is how far I have got in joining the CAL blocks together. The above is the first two rows of the blanket from the top. I will add some sort of border round the edge when Ihave finished joining. At present it is about 54 inches wide. I didn’t have my plan to hand… Read More Join Along: Week one
No I haven’t made 100 snowflakes but a few weeks ago I saw this book in a bookshop Now I’ve worked up a few snowflake patterns myself but there is no way I would have time to create 100 different ones. The snowflakes in this book are all proper snowflakes with six sides and they… Read More 100 snowflakes
Prompted perhaps by Patch’s post http://madebypatch.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/decisions-decisions I have decided to share my planning process for the CAL blanket. I hope it doesn’t come out as too geeky. Because – It isn’t enough for me to just use a hook and yarn, I seem to need to incorprate the computer into my blanket creation. So right… Read More CAL: The Planning
A little late again – but this month I showed you my finished socks and even the CAL still got a look in. I showed you how I was getting my squares ready for the great Join Along and even some of the ones I was leaving out. I delighted in finally receiving my ‘Monthly… Read More August Montage
Ever since I decided how I wanted to join the squares for the CAL (HERE) last January, I had intended to crochet round the edge of each of the finished blocks with the ‘camel’ yarn in readiness for the joining. But although I did manage to edge a few blocks the vast majority remained unedged,… Read More CAL: not quite forgotten!
It is so strange to think that at last I have come to the end of these squares. Well what to say? Square No. 201 The last of the bobbles! I liked the colours in the book so I chose similar ones from my colour range. Pretty straightforward after all these months of practice. Just… Read More CAL: last three squares
Just two this week and the last three for next week I hope. Square No. 193 This one seems to have worked out taller than it is wide but I think it just needs to be stretched. I like the firm sort of fabric that this made and think it might be useful to remember… Read More CAL 193, 197
In the end, as I was buying some other yarn for a different project, I decided to buy more of the standard colours I might need in future including the green I am using for the ‘cottage garden’ CAL. So I found myself able to use green for these last few squares. Very much blues… Read More CAL 181, 185, 189
My three squares for this week and only a few more to go. Seems amazing to have almost got to the end. Of course joining them together will be quite a big undertaking too but it will be so much fun deciding how to arrange them. Square No. 169 I have to admit to a… Read More CAL 169 – 177
In May I managed to catch up with the squares for the CAL so at last I was up to where I should be. I had a lovely surprise with a gift from Janette of The Green Dragonfly and a lovely non-surprise in the merchant’s chest that I bought and I shared with you: not… Read More May Montage
An early CAL post this week because I have decided to be cheeky and enter them in this month’s “Made It!” monthly challenge because there isn’t going to be anything else to enter this month and time is running out. I think by making a big effort that I have finally caught up with where… Read More CAL: seven new squares
Here you will find 125, 129,133 and 141. The reason that 137 is missing is because I wanted to crochet the next square on one of my group crafting evenings and 141 was one I could do without needing the book. Because I had the iron out at the time, I did iron these before… Read More CAL: another four
I am a bit out of sync with my normal pattern of posts due to my outside life intervening but here is my latest update on the CAL. Four more squares. I had hoped to complete six but I was away for a couple of days last week and taking all the balls of yarn… Read More CAL: still catching up
When I sent Janette of The Green Dragonfly a bookmark for being one of the more frequent commentators on my blog she said that she wanted to send me something she had made in return. I told her that I would love to have anything she made but that it wasn’t necessary. 🙂 If you… Read More Another surprise and CAL 95+98-105
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