Baby Blanket in Blues and Greens

 

Another stash busting baby blanket, this time in Attic24’s Cosy Stripe

Stylecraft Special DK and 4.5mm hook

Colour order:

Spearmint, Sherbert, Cypress, Cloud Blue, Duck Egg, Lincoln

Sherbert, Sage, Spearmint, the next colour is from my stash and could be an earlier, lighter version of Sherbert = mystery, Cloud Blue, Meadow,

Duck Egg, Sage, Lincoln, Sherbert, Cloud Blue, Spearmint,

Cypress, Duck Egg, Lincoln, mystery, Sherbert, Meadow, 

Cloud Blue, Storm, Spearmint, Duck Egg, Lincoln, 

Sherbert, Cypress, mystery, Cloud Blue, Meadow, Spearmint, 

Lincoln, Storm, Sherbert, Duck Egg, Sage, Cloud Blue,

Meadow, Spearmint, Lincoln, Sherbert, Storm, Duck Egg,

Sage, Spearmint.

Edging pattern as written by Attic24

The finished blanket measures 40″ x 45″

Joining in with Ginny’s Yarn Along

I don’t read fiction very often nowadays but I have loved the BBC’s programme Between the Covers

 

 

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Pastel Rainbow Baby Blanket

It’s stash-busting time. How did my stash of yarn get so big?!

To use up some Stylecraft Special DK, I made a baby blanket in one of the most relaxing patterns to crochet –  Attic24’s Neat Ripple .

It was easy to carry around and do in any odd moment – I always have one such project on the go. It lives in the car.

I used a 4.5mm hook

The final measurement is 40″ x 30″  which is  1m x 85cm

Choosing soft colours, with pinks as the starting point, I arranged the colours in rainbow order.

A friend saw the blanket on Instagram and said she thought they look like Unicorn Colours – what do you think?

The colours: Sherbert, Cloud Blue, Wisteria, Clematis, Soft Peach, Candy Floss, Fondant, Shrimp, Blush, Buttermilk, Lincoln, Spearmint, Duck Egg, Spice,  Powder Pink,

The foundation chain was 140 + 3

Most of this blanket was made with two rows for each colour.

The colour order:

Sherbert, Cloud Blue, Wisteria, Clematis, Soft Peach, Candy Floss,

Fondant, Shrimp, Blush, Buttermilk, Lincoln, Spearmint,

Duck Egg, Sherbert, Cloud Blue, Wisteria, Clematis, Soft Peach,

Candy Floss, Fondant, one row of Spice and one row of Shrimp,

Buttermilk, Lincoln, Spearmint, Sherbert, Cloud Blue, Wisteria,

Powder Pink, Soft Peach, Candy Floss, Fondant, Spice, Buttermilk,

Lincoln, Duck Egg, Spearmint, Sherbert.

Edging

Row 1, filling in the ripples: Spearmint

Row 2, in Double Crochet (US) Treble Crochet (UK): Powder Pink

Row 3, in SC (US), DC (UK)

Row 4, shell stitch in Spearmint.

I did not have a recipient in mind when I started it, but as often happens, someone sees what I am making, says they love it and Ta Dah! it finds it’s home.

A friend saw me making this one and would like to give it to a new baby due to arrive in January. Perfect!

Yarn Along: Rosslyns

The Rosslyns are coming along.

It is fun to make the same pattern in the same colours but in a different order.

I’m not totally sold on the pale pink (Soft peach) rows in the one on the left – what do you think?

It might look better when I have done a few more rounds.

I don’t like how the ‘roses’ turned out in the one on the right so I will be making some flowers to sew on for the other one.

This is Helen Shrimpton’s paid for pattern made in Stylecraft Special DK with a 4.5mm hook

8 colours:

Buttermilk, Duck Egg, Storm, Lincoln, Cream, Old Rose, Raspberry, Soft Peach

Joining Ginny’s Yarn Along

Ginny likes us to add the book we are currently reading, but as you may know I hardly ever read fiction nowadays. I do however love to listen to the Radio whilst crafting and am really enjoying the new comedy on BBC Radio 4, ‘Ground Control’, starring Tamsin Greig.