Zig zag blanket extra

To see the history of this blanket please click on the granny zig zag label. The blanket is about 5' x 3' and I've used stash wool mostly from car boots or charity shops. The wools are all different - acrylic, mohair, wool so washing it should be fun.

The pattern is in one of my other posts and was very easy once I'd counted the first chain and done the first row. It was easy stress busting, mind numbing work.

I like the stripes of little white flowers between the colours.

The edge is a single crochet followed by half doubles (US terms).

It's not staying on the couch or chair. At the moment it's just a spare lap blanket. As usual while crocheting ideas come into my head as to what to do next - (there's already 3 WIPs). Angela has just crocheted a granny blanket and is using it for a lap blanket and also as a cushion so that gave me the idea of granny cushion covers to contain the lap blankets.

I may use my granny rose squares, (click on the granny rose label for more information), or I may decide on something else. Who knows? Such excitement!!!

Hello to Michele who has become a follower. I hope you enjoy your visits here. I loved reading about  your Homesteading Cottage.

Oh Dear

I'm surrounded by chaos. The room's a mess. The dumping ground, creative sitting place, bed is choc a bloc with stuff. I've started making inroads but it's going to be a long job bringing order to this lot and that's only the parts that can be seen. Oh dear! DD has just come up and said that I'm obsessed. Oh dear!

The wools, I'll start with the wool. Here's the small and tiddley ball basket.

More wool sorted for the granny rose squares. (I'm sure I've done 16 - where have the other 2 gone?)

The large ball of wool basket

and the 'bits' have been tidied. I haven't thrown them away yet - might come in useful.

Look what I've found - it must be a disorder - OCCD (obsessive crochet compulsive disorder). Must start something new - try this, try that, discard this, don't finish that.

I daren't show you the rest of the room!

All's well

The calabrese plants ...

... have been planted in the hoop house,

the mange-tout is growing well,

our friend's straggly tomato plants have been planted in the greenhouse,

the pots have been cleaned,

first strawberries have been spotted,

the chives are looking healthy,

the first of the asparagus has been eaten,

and the roses are blue-ming!

All is well.

PS - Replies have been left for Sft and Jill.

Anonymous, if you look at this post you will find links to the Granny Rose pattern.

:)

Nearly there

I've been avoiding 'the blanket', the reason being - the edge and the unfinished bits. There's still one piece to concoct and one piece that doesn't look quite right because it's a solid block of colour. This will involve 'unpicking' - another task which I avoid.

I can never decide where to stop an edge and always keep going round and round until I feel I should stop. Then there is the agonising decision of how to 'finish off'. I don't particularly like fancy edging but wanted to do something I'd not tackled before. Whilst blog browsing I came across a simple picot edge that didn't look too flouncy but I'm afraid I wasted a little bit more time avoiding the blanket again and started something new. Here's the edging. It is taking me just over half an hour to complete each side. Now I've only two sides to go.

And here is the reason for my delay in finishing.

These are Granny Rose Squares. I found the pattern 'here' (via a circuitous route through Tangled Happy blog) whilst researching edging for blankets. Week 5 shows the picot edging I used. There is a link to Apple Blossom Dreams blog which shows  the squares being used to make a picot edged cushion. Once I started on one square I couldn't stop.

I don't know what I'm going to make with them yet. I'm rapidly running out of coloured wool for my Nativity figures - whoops!

PS I've replied to the comments yesterday and hello to my new followers.