The Seed Packet Blanket (and April Newsletter)

Blankets and Babies! Hello everyone. This has been quite a month! My March Newsletter didn't happen I'm afraid, because of course we started April with the Easter weekend. Family gatherings with egg rolling and hunting just took over. It was a lot of fun, having everyone together, young and old. And the sun shone too!…

The Cloud Cover Blanket

Hello again, crochet friends. It's time to introduce my newly finished crochet pattern, the Cloud Cover Blanket. The pattern that nearly didn't happen! Here is how it finally did come about. Back in October of 2023, I had just finished writing the pattern for the Winter Walk blanket. It had been a few weeks of…

February Newsletter

Hello crochet friends. What happened to February? The first months of the year used to feel interminable. The long drag of Winter moving so slowly into Spring. But I don't think we've even had a winter this year. Apart from a couple of stormy days which blew a few tiles off the roof and some…

The Beach Walk Blanket 2024 is Published!

Hello crochet friends. I'm popping back on here between Newsletters because this news can't wait until the end of the month for the February Update. I mentioned in the last newsletter that I was working on a new version of the Beach Walk Blanket, and now it's finished! What an intense couple of weeks it…

Crochet Newsletter, January 2024

Hello crochet friends. It's a New Year and a fresh start. My resolutions have been written down, and of course immediately forgotten about - except for the crochet related ones, which are the only ones likely to stand a chance of being fulfilled. Let's just forget the healthy eating/more exercise/less screen time stuff. I'll get…

The Winter Walk Pattern is Here!

Today is the day! The pattern has just been released and is now in my ETSY shop - woohoo! You can also find it in my Ravelry store too. UK and US Versions The other good news is that there are TWO VERSIONS. One is written in UK terms and one in US terms. You…

The Winter Walk Blanket

UPDATE: THE PATTERN IS NOW PUBLISHED. ALL THE INFO IS HERE Introducing my new blanket design for the end of the year, 2023. I've called it the Winter Walk Blanket, because in my mind as I was planning it, I was imagining walking in the woods near our cottage, during the early days of winter.…

The Christmas Baubles Blanket

UPDATE - THE PATTERN IS NOW AVAILABLE IN BOTH MY ETSY AND RAVELRY SHOPS Here we go - it’s July, so the Christmas countdown is upon us! Actually, relax - it isn’t. But designing a new blanket pattern for Christmas 2023 most definitely is! There needs to be time to design and make the blanket,…

Continuous Join as You Go

Hello again. Those of you who are familiar with my crochet patterns, will know that I love Granny Squares. They feature in almost all of my designs in some form or another, and more often than not are joined with some form of Join as You Go method. In the Beach Walk Blanket above, I…

Yarn List for the Moody Blues Blanket

Hello again. Here we are halfway through March already and my first blanket of the year is done and dusted. It’s a celebration of the blues this time, something which I had to challenge myself to do, as the colour blue has not featured much in any of my designs to date. I can’t really…