I’ve finished a second lap blanket today. This was using the Sungold yarn pack from Wool Warehouse and patterns by Lucy of Attic 24. I started with the Crochet A Long (CAL) in January to make a lap sized version of the Sungold blanket pattern. At the same time as I was crocheting the instalments of this blanket I also started on another one but using the Dahlia stitch pattern. Having gone onto the Attic24 and more Facebook group, there had been several people who were have previously made two lap blankets with a yarn pack (there are 15 assorted Stylecraft yarn colours in this pack).
03 March 2024
Tale of Two Blankets
29 February 2024
Furtling in February
February has been a month of crochet and hexagons and not much else really. There is a finish. Only the one, some others are nearly theres.
I finished a lap sized blanket following the Attic24 Sungold Blanket CAL. I had enough yarn to make a second which is a nearly finish. The pattern (free) is on Lucy’s blog and the Stylecraft yarn is from Wool Warehouse.
This is blanket no. 1 (the finished one). I made 67 stripes of the pattern and followed the colour order for the stripes in the blanket and border. This measures 54.5” long x 34.5” wide, 138 x 88 cm.
I was also working on the same colour sequence but using the spike stitch pattern from the Dahlia blanket pattern. There was a slight deviation in the colour order as I got the purple-pinks mixed up and tried to get back on course. This stitch is slightly taller than on the Sungold blanket so I worked 60 stripes. By this time some of the yarns are running low so I’m changing the colour order of the border stripes.
26 February 2024
4th Week of February - a Few Quilts Short of a Quilt Show
Ever looked forward to something and felt underwhelmed when you’ve got there? I wanted to go to the South West Quilt Show in Newton Abbott so I booked the tickets and David booked an overnight stay at a Premier Inn that we’ve stayed at previously in Paignton for a quick weekend getaway. So the weather may be wet but that’s ok. We travelled down to south Devon to go to the show at the race course there.
As soon as we walked in there were traders so had a quick look but I don’t usually buy anything until the end of my visit and going to the end of the hall was a display of journal quilts and some gaudy coloured quilts by Alicia Merrett. We wondered where the other quilts were, then found a sign that took us outside and into another part of the building. The space was small and sometimes crowded and there was a small selection of quilts.
18 February 2024
Third Week of February - More of the Same
This week was the monthly meeting of Dorset Creative Embroiderers and I could stay for the whole session as it was half term. It was a catch up session and I completed the sewing on my butterfly from the previous month. The picture below shows that I’ve cut around it and I’ll use fuse some felt on the back to make into a brooch.
11 February 2024
Second Week of February - About the Hexagons
I’ve been busy this week with some hand sewing and crochet. Last year I took part in 100 hexies 100 days on Instagram, between August through to October. Together with hexagons from a previous challenge in 2019 I have amassed a lot of them. I’ve sewn together in ‘flower’ clusters and I’m getting to the stage where they need to be put on a backing fabric. I’ve chosen 6.5” squares in low volume creams and whites and I had already made a start earlier.
So there are 10 squares in this little lot and last week I’ve cut out more low volume squares and pinned more flowers ready to sew.
I think I must be obsessed with hexagons!
07 February 2024
First Week of February
I’ve used the first page of my stitch book of running stitches for my Monthly Marker. I’m still working on this and also started a second page which will contain chain stitches.
This week saw us go to Portsmouth for a few hours. This is about an hour away from home and there is an outlet shopping area called Gunwharf Quays, which is on the site of the old naval docks and there are remnants of this on the site. It’s home to the Spinnaker Tower, which is a quite a landmark for miles around. The photo is a figurehead (but no signs to say which ship is was from) with the Spinnaker Tower. To the bottom left is the Isle of Wight ferry and the bit of grey ship behind that is the aircraft carrier Prince of Wales.
I’ve been following the progress on an Amaryllis that my sister bought me for Christmas and there are 4 blooms from one stalk so far.
The bud on the second stalk is fattening up and will be blooming soon. It has become top heavy and has now got a supporting stick.
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