Granny Patch Baby Blanket

Last week I forgot to post my One A Day progress, so this week I am showing you two weeks progress....It still counts, right? A week ago I had a total of 20 squares completed, and 19 of them joined together.

This week I have 28 squares completed, with 23 of them joined together. Hopefully this means another three weeks and all the squares could be completed and joined together, awaiting to be fully bordered!

After I complete this, I will have no projects a part from my sideline granny square blanket! Yay!

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Granny Star Baby Shawl

At the beginning of the week I finished my granny star baby shawl, and I love it! I started this shawl at the beginning of May after I seen a granny star pin on Pinterest, and I thought it would be stunning as a baby shawl. I gave it to my work colleague during the week after I blocked it, and she adores it. It is the greatest feeling when you give someone something you have made and you see how much they like your work.

I tried out the picot edging for the first time, and I think it really suits this shawl. From point to point it measures approximately 46 inches! And I lost count how many balls of yarn I used for this as it just seemed to eat them away!

Now that I have finished this shawl, I only have one main crochet on the go which is the baby blanket for my future nephew. I plan to blog about it on Tuesday for my One A Day as I didn't post this week about it, I now have two weeks progress to show off!

Oh! I also got to go to Edinburgh Zoo on Monday and it was fantastic! My sister wanted to take my nephew Zak to see all the different animals, and I think he was most fascinated with the meerkats as he sees them on TV a lot! They are very cute, and a lot smaller than I imagined them to be. 

We also got tickets to see the pandas, and both Tian Tian (female) and Yang Guang (male) were both snoozing away when we got to the panda section. Although they are used to sleeping up to 16 hours a day, which is very similar to cats I think. On this occasion we were lucky as Tian Tian woke up and decided to have a leisurely stroll around her play area, she is beautiful!

Well that is all the news I have for for you today, and I hope you all have had a good weekend!

Take care!

Hazel x

Gifts From Gilly

Recently I won a giveaway from Gilly at gilly makes, which included a beautiful crochet hook holder handmade by Gilly herself and the lovely Hip Crochet book by Natalie Clegg. I was so excited to open my package to this lovely purple paper and Owl tag.

It was really cool to look through this book, anticipating all the patterns that it has and deciding which ones are my favourites!

I picked out a favourite instantaneously, here is a peek at the blanket pattern I like....are you surprised?! It is so pretty. I have taken more photos of other patterns in the book, if you would like...I could do a little review on the book? Just let me know.

The handmade crochet hook holder is beautiful! I love the colours on it, they are so me! Gilly knows me so well he he!

Gilly also attached this cute ribbon which is so pretty as a bow, I really can't believe this beauty is mine!

The inside is all cute and spotty, and the spaces are big enough to store a lot of crochet hooks.

My most favourite little touch to it all is the little tag that she has sewn on the inside to personalise it, 'made with love by Gilly'.

Thank you Gilly, this package definitely made my week!

Take care

Hazel x

Baby Blanket

Hello lovelies, I hope you are all keeping well! I have been keeping myself busy with blankets recently, and this one is coming a long quite well. I am really enjoying the colour combination and I think it will be very ideal for my nephew when he arrives in September!

Other than crochet, I have been occupied with writing letters and getting happy mail thanks to Shelley from all4meggymoo setting up a penpal revival thing on Instagram. I took some inspiration from her idea and I now have 9 penpals from different places all over the world. It will be so nice to receive mail in the post other than bills and junk mail. It is so much fun buying different letter sets too!

I am not sure if many of you know, but Carole from GingerBreadGirl is hosting One A Day every tuesday again! I'm joining in with my baby blanket progress, so that I am sure to do at least one square a day for my blanket.

Take care

Hazel x

Keeping Quiet and Crochet

Hello, I hope you have all been keeping well. I have been keeping quite quiet recently due to being on night shift and mainly focusing on one project, my granny star baby shawl. It has grown quite big lately, and it measures around 28 inches on the narrowest diameter points. It won't be long until it is finished as I want it to measure around 36 inches, as it needs to be big enough to wrap properly around the baby. I really love making this, it is just as much fun as a granny square!

While I have the granny star baby shawl on the go, I started another baby blanket project for my brother's baby that is due in September and I found it that it is going to be a little boy. This is perfect for my stash busting as I had plenty of blues left over from my Stylecraft Attic24 bundle that I bought last year. I haven't done many squares, but I have four different colours which I am going to border white and then join them together. I am not sure how big I am going to make it and how I am going to border the whole blanket, we will just need to wait and see!

I haven't had much time for sewing adventures just yet, but I have bought fabric so that I am ready to make some lovely patchwork goodness. My plan is to make a patchwork cushion and possible a cute apron!

That's all I have been up to!

Take care lovelies,

Hazel x

Vintage Rainbow Hat

Hook: 6mm

Yarn: Drops Paris in various colours.

Pattern: Petal Beanie from Love Crochet magazine (Spring 2013 issue)

After completing my footstool cover I wanted to find a project that I could used to experiment with the new Drops Paris stash that I recently got. My intentions were to find a project that I could wear like a jumper or a vest, but nothing pulled my interest. Browsing through my collection of crochet books and magazines the Petal Beanie pattern caught my eye, and I thought it would be perfect for trying out my new stash. It is a really easy pattern to follow, and it has been sampled in the magazine from a book called So Pretty! Crochet by Amy Palanjian. The pattern has been written in UK terminology, it requires 85g of medium-weight cotton yarn and a 6mm crochet hook. It also calls for a little leather bow for detail, but I kept mine very simple as I have a lot of colour in my hat.

It makes me feel so cheerful!

Take care and enjoy the rest of your weekend,

Hazel x

Ta-dah - Granny Footstool

A while ago I started this footstool cover, thinking I would complete it rather quickly and instead it has taken me a month to do. Nevertheless, I absolutely love it and I think even Jess loves it too! I got the inspiration to do a footstool cover after seeing some crochet covered ones on pinterest, and I thought that would be a fun project to do. I bought the footstool from Dunelm Mill, a little cheap one that I could make all pretty. On the same day I started to crochet a granny square to match in size with the top of the footstool, and after that I have just been working on the rounds to cover the height of the footstool (this part took forever!).

Now I can put my feet up on the loveliness while I am crocheting away at my granny star shawl, which I am going to do just now.

Take care and have a good weekend!

Hazel x