Baby Blankets
The past few months have been very unproductive for me. Projects have been started and then discarded. Yarns have been rolled or wound up with the intention of starting projects, and then just been abandoned to a basket somewhere in my craft room.
At the beginning of October I decided to sort through these (many, many) baskets and start working my way through the yarns. The goal was to just make something! Anything!! The yarn just HAD to be used!
I started off with a basket full of Elle Family DK, Elle Pullskein and Lollipop DK (about 22 x 100g) and decided to use that for granny square baby blankets.
I succeeded in making four 75cm x 75cm, and one 65cm x 65cm blanket in six days. Amazing what little gems were hidden in those baskets!
Next up was a basket with a few cones of 4ply intended for blankets and clothes for grandbaby, which turned out to be too thin for me to comfortably work with. There was a pretty pink variegated cone and two shades of solid pink, which were wound together to form an 8ply strand. I added in some Pullskein in the colour "Snowmoon" left over from the granny square blankets to make a striped rectangular v-stitch baby blanket with a frilly border.
The
4ply was purchased before I knew whether grandbaby was going to be a
boy or girl and so I bought pink and blue. The blues have been double
stranded and there is enough to make a smallish C2C baby blanket and a SWIRLING SHELLS BABY SHAWL.
Halfway through these WIPs I was inspired by some colourful Lollipop Chunky and made a pinks, apricot, watermelon and brown rectangular striped blanket
and a blues and greens granny square blanket
I am quite over the moon with the number of completed projects. In my next post I will share photos of all the "project de-stash" scarves and shawls made.
What are your de-stashing tricks and tips? How do you conquer a creative slump?? I would love to hear your thoughts on this!!
My favourite Stylecraft yarns are definitely the wool / acrylic
blends. They are so easy to work with and are extra soft and squishy.
I was ridiculously happy when Stylecraft added LIFE CHANGES to the Life family. Life Changes is a range of 8 totally gorgeous, rich, semi solid shades in a a luxurious mix of 25% wool and 75% Acrylic. To add to this they released five fabulous new shades of LIFE DK (Silver Nepp, Black Nepp, Mustard, Hyacinth & Deep Purple).
For starters I wanted to make something with a very simple stitch composition to truly appreciate the colour variations in the Life Changes. My COSMOS FIELDS SHAWL was just the right pattern for this. I crocheted 40 rows (15 less than the shawl) before starting the border. This makes for a very generous size triangle scarf.
For this one I used Life Changes "Ashes", Life DK "Mustard" and "Black Nepp".
Here you can see the beautiful subtle colour variations of the Life Changes.
There was a ball of Life DK "Denim" lying on my table next to the leftover Mustard. I really liked the combination of those two colours and so I made a second scarf using Life DK "Denim", "Stone Nepp" and what was left of the 100g of Mustard and Black Nepp.
The Mustard is too divine with the Denim and the Black Nepp just makes the colours "pop",
I can think of quite a few colour variations I would like to try with the Mustard!!
I have been a bit "hooked" on making this scarf. Over the next few posts I will share some lovely combos I have made using various mixes of Stylecraft.
Until then ...... Happy hooking!
