The Forgotten Blanket

8 years ago I started crocheting blankets for all three of my kids. Somehow I lost the mojo and the squares were put away in a bag... Earlier this spring my youngest son helped me go through my yarn stash and we came upon said bag. When I told him that most of the squares were for a blanket for him he really wanted me to finish it. So this has been my main project this summer. I had made about 1/3 of the squares I needed so it felt like a manageable projecs. I had some yarn in the right colour in my stash, but some of the dye lots were not the same. It's most obvious in the blue squares, but he doesn't care ;)

Ravelry project page
Pattern: Framhurst Afghan (free pattern)
Yarn: 1775 g or 35.5 skeins of Mor Aase Superwash
Hook: 3,5 mm / E
Size: 115 cm x 165 cm

He was so happy when I finally told him it was finished! He has been following the progress this summer and since I told him I was going to finish it I had to set other projects aside. And the other two blankets..? No, I'm not going to finish them- I asked the teenagers if they wanted a blanket, but they were not interested.. I think the squares I have made for my daughters blanket might become a pillow. I'll have to make a few more squares though.

On The Needles :: Bovary and Diamonds

 I stubled upon a mystery kal from General Hogbuffer. I love all of his pattern so I decided to cast on and see how this pair would turn out. I've completed 2 clues and I really like it so far :)
The pattern for the blue sock is Diamond Socks - a pair I found in one of my knitting bag the other day... I didn't remember casting them on, but then again I had just knitted a couple of rouns on it...

FO's - Market bag, blanket and a hat

It feels like all of my projects have been stuck on the needles lately... But I have a few fo's to show you today.
You can read about more FO's here on FO Friday :)

When I went through my stash last weekend I found out that  have A LOT of cotton... And I can't make dishcloths woth all of it, so I browsed through some market bag patterns on Ravelry and found one I liked.

Pattern: Grrlfriend Market Bag
Yarn: 100 g Tuva # 600 and 25 g Mandarin Petit # 6200
Needles: 3,5 and 5 mm
Moderations: I decreased until I had 116 st. Made 12 rows of  garter stitch before I knitted the handle.

In Norway we have a project called The Amanda Project - stitches with meaning! We knit for preemie babies at our local hospitals. I have some babywool in my stash, so I hope to knit 5 blankets and 10-15 hats. I have the first blanket and hat off the needles :)


Pattern: My own. 100 st.
Yarn: 81 g Spunky Eclectic Super Nova # Rubber Grapes

Needles: 3 mm

Pattern: My own
Yarn: Candy Skein Yummy Fingering Superwash Sock # Blackberry

Needles: 3 mm

On the needles and between the pages

Yarn Along :: WIP Wednesday :: Keep Calm Craft On

 

Knitting: The blue square in the front is the start of a Grrlfriend Market Bag. I have some cotton yarn I need to use up, so I'm going to give this bag a try and see if it is any good.

The green and pink/purple project is a baby blanket. I am knitting hats and blankets for the local hospitals preemie babies.

The skein of yarn in the back is my newest and I am looking for a shawl pattern so I can make it my next project :)

Reading: Still dreaming about a kithen garden, but so far I'm just reading about it while I look at my seeds starts to sprout indoors. Hopefully we will have some carrots, leeks and potatoes at least when fall comes ;) The other book is Sacrifise by S.J. Bolton. And it's very good! I am almost done with it and are just waiting for the plot to unveil... Endre and I are still reading The Invention of Hugo Cabre and I think he likes it just as much as I do ;)

So, what are you reading and knitting/crocheting this week?

I am going to my lys with mom and my sister a little later today. Not that I need any new yarn, but you know. . . 

On the needles and between the pages

Yarn Along :: WIP Wednesday :: Keep Calm Craft On

Reading: Endre and I are enjoying a couple of chapters each night before bedtime with Hugo in The Invention of Hugo Cabre. I think it's a wonderful book so far. So, those of you who have seen the movie - is it any good? I really hope so, but I often think the books are better than the movies...

The other book is The Alchemist's Daughter, which I find a little hard to get into. Hopefully it will get more exciting after a few more chapters.

Knitting & Crocheting: I'm still knitting on the jacket for the book project. The sleeves are done andI have an inch or so left on the body. The body is knitted in the round, so I must get help from mom to sew seams for sleeves and in the front. I don't dare to get a sewing machine close to it....

I have a few small projects to switch to when I get bored with the jacket. A preemie hat and circles for a new sock yarn blanket.

Macro Monday :: Crocheting / Mandagstema :: To the left

Macro Monday

Mandagstema

Blanket

Finally my blanket is done! And I love it!! It's just big enough to snuggle under in the sofa :)

Pattern: Bullseye
Yarn: Each sircel needs about 9 g so it's about 730 g of leftover yarn. The black is Mor Aase babyull. I think I used about 10,5 balls.
Hook: 3 mm.
Size: 8x10 squares. Circa 144 x 170 cm
Modifications: I skipped round 5 and 8, they are without increases. In other words I increased on every round to make the sircel flat.



The picture of the blanket dosen't show each square very good. So here comes a few picture showing off 20 squares at the time :)

Yarn Along

Joining Ginny over at Small Things for Yarn Along.
"~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading, and the evidence of this often shows up in my photographs. I love seeing what other people are knitting and reading as well. So, what are you knitting or crocheting right now? What are you reading? ... ~"

Reading: I finished Eat, Pray, Love the other day and liked it. I have been holding back a bit on books that are popular. It's not always the book is so good as "everyone" thinks it is...and I end up dissapointed. But I just had to borrow Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet at the library last time I was there. Even though it's one of those populare books ;) But I'm glad I did. Because it such a wonderful book. The kind of book you have to read and enjoy slowly :)

Crocheting: Yes, I'm working on my blanket again. I've bought more black yarn, so I hope I'll manage to finish this soon. The tiny jacket I knitted on last time is finished together with a tiny hat too :)

Purple Bluebell socks

New socks for Eirin :)

My 11th pair so far in the 52ppiv. I guess I'm a little behind... But I'm not going to stress ;) Knitting should be fun, not a chore.

The pattern is a cuff down sock, but I knitted it as a toe-up to make sure I had enough yarn, but also to make the bluebells the right way. Making them hang down.

Pattern: Bluebell rib from Sensational Knitted Socks.
Yarn: 44 g King Kole Zig Zag colorway 741.
Needles: 2,5 mm.
Size: 8 years, 54 st.

I see that I really need to get some sock blockers... The pattern doesn't show here at all :(

I guessed I would use up all of the yarn since it was leftovers after my own socks. But I had just enough left to crochet a square for my leftover sock yarn blanket too :)

And there's no doubt anymore - Fall is here. The lawn is covered in yellow leaves and today the rain is pouring down... Eirin is wearing a Hello Kitty hat I made for her about 2 years ago :) Endre is wearing a stripy hat I crochet earlier this summer. It's so great when the kids like to wear the things I make for them :)

Knitting & Crochet Blog Week :: Day Two

Blog about a pattern or project which you aspire to. Whether it happens to be because the skills needed are ones which you have not yet acquired, or just because it seems like a huge undertaking of time and dedication, most people feel they still have something to aspire to in their craft. If you don’t feel like you have any left of the mountain of learning yet to climb, say so!

Aran by Norah Gaughan

Sometimes I feel like I have knitted the most. I've knitted plain socks, socks with cables, socks in lace, socks in fair isle/selbu, sweaters both for kids and adults, hats, mittens in every shape and color, pants, dishclothes, toys, doll clothes, potholdes, scarfs and shawls. I have even crochet a curtain for the kitchen window and knitted some lace curtain ribbons ;) BUT I have not knitted or crochet a blanket yet. I do have four in my wip's at Ravelry, but I must confess that I haven't made a single stitch on them for months...

Aran by Norah Gaughan

A while ago I bought the book Comfort Knitting and Crochet: Afghans, and I fell in love with this blanket. It's just beautiful! It's not likely I'll knit this blanket any time soon, but I hope can snuggle under a blanket like this with a cup of tea and a good book sometime in the future :)

Click here to see other blogs tagged with knitcroblo2, blogging about this same topic for Knitting and Crochet Blog week.

# 7/52 k2, p2 socks

My 7th pair of socks for the 52ppiii is done ;) It's a simple pair of k2, p2 socks with heels and toes in a different color.
Pattern: 64 st, k2, p2.
Yarn: Opal Petticoat #1293 and Ida Strømpegarn.
Needles: 2,5 mm.

I'm also making progress on Endre's blanket. I can't say that I'm just crocheting one each day (or 7 a week) as supposed to by the En bestemor om dagen ;) But if I shall manage to crochet the kids a blanket each before christmas, I have to keep the speed up ;) I'm corcheting the Circles to squares afghan (rav link), but I'm not going to swe the squares together as in tha pattern. I've been playing a bit with it and think Endre's blanket will end up something like this. This is just half of the squares, so it will be bigger. I might make one row as the one in the middle to make it a bit wider...

And a little envelope full of surprises came in the mail today :) I'm in the Summer Mini Swap over at "My other hobby swap" group at Ravelry.

I have got some new yarn in the mail too. A package from the sockyarn club from Strikk Innom came the other day. And I got two balls of this beautiful yarn! Can't wait to knit it up :)

The beginning of three blankets :)

Even though I think it's fun crocheting hexagons for the "en bestemor om dagen" cal, I needed some fast crochet too. So I've started on three (!) blankets - one for each kid. The pattern is Circles to squares afghan (rav link). This is a fun and fast project :)

17th of May

This year we took a little untraditional celebrating of
17th of May - our constitution day ;)
We hiked in the forest and the weather was brilliant!

And my second weeks hexagons for the "En bestemor
om dagen" cal :) Happy colors, fun to crochet! My target
socks are done too, just need to sew in some ends...
So I'll post about them tomorrow.

Friday flickr favorites - Blankets

Since I've joined the "En bestemor om dagen" cal, I browsed through blankets, and here is some of my favorites. I LOVE the Mario blanket! You can see more of Gege's crochet here (flickr link) and here (ravelry link)

En bestemor om dagen

Or an granny a day. Frk.Badegakk came up with a norwegian twist of this cal. We can make one a day, so there will be seven new squares each week. This is my first week and I managed to crochet six. I'm making hexagons. Hopefully there will be a blanket in the end :) I'll post the progress each Sunday. I love the colors, but I think I'll use some other colors as well.