Granny Square Blanket

This was another lockdown project, started in place of my Spicier Life blanket which was unravelled. It was an impulsive make, started after watching some of HG Designs Crochet's videos on YouTube - her granny square enthusiasm is infectious!

Lovely project to work on, I decided recently that it was the project in my WIP pile which was closest to completion so I focused on it alone (I have a lot of knitting plans and want a clean slate). Next in line is my Coofle jumper, then Mum's blanket (Moder dy).

I used mohair and various hand-dyed yarns, tried to be a bit free with the colour palette and really enjoyed working on it, granny squares are so fun to work on. I think I've mentioned before that I only learnt how to crochet granny squares fairly recently (via YouTube of course), they're very easy once you've got the pattern memorised (it took me a few tries). I've said this before but I find granny squares to have a lovely homely feel to them, welcoming and cosy.

Robyn was pulling on the blanket at this point! 

Blankets

I've been making quite a few blankets this year so far. I started off crocheting the Spicier Life blanket (Cherry Heart Designs) but really wasn't 100% sure of my colour choices and so 3/4 of the way through making it, I unravelled it. It's ok though! I hooked another! I'm currently working on a granny square blanket inspired by the lovely HGDC podcast and her wonderful granny square mania.

 

This one is the Cherry Heart design, it's lovely and really fun to work on, I was mixing up yarn types though and I didn't like it, perhaps if I'd used only sock yarn + mohair it wouldn't have been unravelled (those were my favourite bits), hey ho.

Granny squares! Lovely granny squares :-) I have enjoyed these as they're bitesize and I can complete one a day if I've a mind to. I've started joining them all together this week and I'm really pleased with how they look, granny squares have got a friendly rustic look to them. 

The other blankets are a third Moder dy hap (Kate Davies) and the Arne & Carlos Quarantine KAL colourwork blanket. The Moder dy I am knitting for my mum's birthday this September and the A&C blanket was an impulse cast-on and was so enjoyable during those first weeks of lockdown. It's on pause at the moment as Carlos got Covid-19, was quite ill with it, and is now dealing with the dreaded post-viral fatigue syndrome. It should be a fun project to work on later this year when I start university again (I'm starting to get nervous!!!). 

Here's my Arne & Carlos blanket, a few of the patches are patterns I've taken from different designers or from google, the yarn is all gorgeous naturally-dyed Norfolk Horn I bought from the Fibre Workshop. And now Robyn is crying so I should go!