Granny blanket is finished

I started working on this in about October. I had some squares left from another project and wanted to learn how to join them in a different way than I'd done before.

It was supposed to turn into a cushion cover, but I got a bit carried away going round and round, and then decided to keep going. After a while I got bored of going round and round, so made enough granny squares to make a large border and then have finished it with a couple of rounds of cream.

I looking forward to snuggling under it watching the telly of an evening and am thrilled how it looks in situ in the living room.

Week 2 of the hexagon a day project

Can't believe we're just about half way through January already!

I'm really enjoying this challenge and it certainly has been excellent at motivating me and so far is being what I wanted this daily project to be.

Some members of the craft group I belong to are also doing the same project and it was lovely seeing what everyone else is up to last night.

So here's week 2 in pictures...

Days 8, 9 and 10

Day 11

Day 12 (these are the colours I'm using in the sampler block blanket)

Day 13

Day 14 (you cant really see on this but it's a white glittery yarn)

Weeks 1 and 2

Sampler blanket project

I've had the book '200 crochet blocks for blankets, throws and afghans' by Jan Eaton for AGES!!

Last autumn I decided that I needed to expland my crochet repertoire of stitches and thought a sampler blanket using this book would be a great way to do this. I started in earnest and quickly made about 10 squares.

Work, real life and a multitude of other projects got in the way, until a couple of days ago when I decided that it was time to get going on this again.

I've chosen a palette of 4 colours from the Stylecraft range of yarn. I'm using Magenta, Clematis, Lavender and Violet.

To date I have completed 28 blocks. I've estimated to cover my kingsize bed I am going to require about 120 ish so I have a fair way left to go.

Some of the pics are not too good as my camera is not behaving properly, but here's some images to let you see where the work has got to.

      

     

     
    

     

    

Apologies if the photos are misaligned, but blogger is not behaving with them

End of week 1 hexagon a day challenge

I can't believe that 7 days have past since I started this challenge. I am thrilled with how it is going and that I am allowing random(ish) to happen. Certainly some of the colours that are in each hexagon I would not normally have paired up.

Anyway, as pictures tend to speak a 1000 words I shall let the images (albeit slightly iffy in places as my phone is due for upgrade and the camera is starting to misbehave somewhat) tell the story....

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 4

Day 6 (detail)
The bright pink and the yellow were small pieces of yarn I had left over from cardigans I'd made when my first daughter was a baby. She's now nearly 13!
The bluey green yarn was originally used in my major project for my Art Foundation course back in 1996!!

Day 6

Day 7 (detail)

Day 7

I've been pondering about how to go about the project from here. I'm thinking that I might complete next week's in the same manner and then attach just on one edge and then fill in the gaps at a later stage. Not totally sure yet. Winging it will probably be the best methodology.