For some reason the link to the Stashbuster didn’t work in the last post. It’s now fixed and you can find it here.
I’ll be posting more about the #nuvofelttemperature2018 later today. If you aren’t a crocheter you can adapt the idea to another technique – for example, patchwork, canvaswork or knitting.
If you have lots of small quantities that you wish to use up you may like this idea.
So here we are at the end of the year. It’s been a year filled with crochet and more. I hope your year has been as good as mine. We have had our ups and downs, but I have tried to always look for the positive, and that has certainly brought me through.
Much of 2017 has been focussed on the Temperature blanket. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the journey, even though I doubted that I’d finish, and also wondered if I’d regret deciding upon Granny Squares for the duration. Well, the last square was made on the last day of November, and now I’m working on the border after a brief gap for Christmas.
It’s so large that it’s difficult to photograph – so I hope the above will give you a rough idea of the outcome. The tags will shortly be removed – they just showed me the top of each element as it was completed so that it all went together the right way around!
I’ve also had fun with the sidelines of Spirit blankets. The penultimate one is on my hook at the moment.
I’m planning on making another blanket for 2018, details here, and also some more Spirit Blankets – in the same vein as above – and you can read about those here. Of course I‘ll need to buy some more yarn for those.
Scraps and Stash are another couple of objects for the coming year! Both must reduce. A metre of yarn is ample for the centre of a granny square, so I think you will see some more small squares appearing, in fact, some have already been made! However, Stash requires rather longer lengths, and I have plenty of those too. Soon I’ll share the first of my Stashbusters. It’s coming along nicely. Stashbusters Anonymous is open for business, so why not pop over and join in?
A little more information has been posted on the stashbusting blog. If you think you might like to join in next year (starting on 1 January) pop over and take a look. Please pass the word too.
December is under way. Are you ready for the festivities? I’m not.
The main temperature blanket is put away until I’ve finished the many pressing chores that I have to do in a short space of time. I’m allowing myself the luxury of one crocheted square a day for the time being.
Comparing last December with this month is proving to be rather interesting.
The first four days show similarities – but differences too. All these are joined with the ends dutifully sewn in, and later I’ll spend a little time with number 5.
Now it’s time to cook dinner.
I’m so glad I kept records! I wanted to choose a linking colour to join the four seasonal elements that have been finished with different colours – Parchment, Stone, Camel and Gold. I have no idea yet how the final blanket will be finished ( as far as the final edging is concerned) because once this current stage is over it will go into hibernation until next year, but the linking is essential at this stage.
Looking back through the list of days and temperatures I found that there were two that occurred in every month! Just two!!!
10 deg C represented by Lobelia and
11 deg C represented by Empire.
Guess which one I chose?
Empire, I have more in my stash!
So far I have edged and joined three strips. Tomorrow I’ll finish adding the last – and then it will be carefully popped into a paper bag until the festivities and more are over.
I have more to crochet, though, so I won’t abandon the blog for a while yet!
So, here we are – November is over!
The final Temperature square is done, and has been slotted into its space.
It’s almost offscreen – but there it is, bottom right.
The next step is to join it to the other autumn blocks, and then to assemble the blanket.
As for December? Watch this space.
Remember this?
The blanket I showed you on Friday was made with squares of the same sequence. It isn’t my favourite thing to do by any means, but a request has come in for the same colours in a more random pattern, so it’s started today, and I’ll post it’s probably slow progress from time to time. It’s one of my ‘Blessings’ blankets, maybe I’ll share more about those another day.
The process has started…..
As you can see most of these are waiting for colour number 5 which is Pomegranate. I think that is my favourite colour in the Stylecraft range, but maybe it’s the colour of the moment as far as I’m concerned because the Temperature Blanket is currently very blue!
