Harmony Blanket

Hello there - It's been a while since I have been around so here are some catch ups.  Some time ago I started to crochet the beautiful harmony blanket designed by Lucy from Attic24.  The colours she chose were beautiful and I wanted very much to make one of these harmony blankets

 

 

cloud, lime, clematis, rose, bluebell, raspberry, 

parma violet (for joining)

petrol, lavender, storm blue, aster, violet, meadow, petrol, plum  

 

 

all joined together with parma violet

Lucy made a single bed blanket for which you needed to make 9 strips

across the bed with 14 strips down = 126 squares

I decided that I wanted to make a double bed blanket so that I could look at it

every day on my bed, so another five rows to make

 so that meant I needed another 70 squares = a total of 196 squares

 

 

and so my squares began - little piles of them

 

 

and then there were more - I needed 14 different colour combinations

 

Lucy had designed a new granny square and it was lovely to make them as

they were quite different from the classic granny squares

 

 

 

piles and piles of them all with letters on trying to keep track

of the rows I needed and whether I had enough of the

right colours for the 14 piles of 14 squares

 

Eventually I could start the joining to make the rows

 

 

Starting at the top of the row and adding down

until there were 14 squares in a row

 

 

Then to start joining on the next row

 

 

Then more

 

 

And more

 

 

Yet again more

 

 

 

 

Oooohhhh the blanket was coming together and I was lovviingggg it

 

 

Then of course there is a border of 8 rows to put around it

the first row was to be cloud then

lavender, violet, plum, raspberry, meadow, sage, storm

 

 

 

 

 

and finally 6 months later it is finished and on the bed!!

Isn't it gorgeous? 

 

 

A few weeks ago this beautiful blossom was on the cherry tree

 

 

and then it blew off and looked like pink snow

 

 

leaving the tree looking rather bare

 

 

so I crocheted some covers over some plastic balls

and hung them in the tree to give it back some colour

 

 

Yay I love it and there is more to come!!

 

Another of Lucy's patterns that I couldn't wait to do,

so once the harmony blanket was finished I starting

making some bits and pieces

 

 

Starting with covering a polystyrene ring

 

then a few of these

 

then some more

 

some of these

 



 a few of these

 



one of these

 

then some more

 

 

some of these

 

 

 one of these

 

 

and a bit more crochet in a different colour and you get

this little lady

 

 

Assemble everything you have made and you have

a lovely Autumnal wreath

 

 

a few squares joined together and there is a

cushion cover

 

 

some of the blue strips on the left

 

 

become these scanner pockets for parkruns

 

 

and the greens

 

 

become these little worms

 

 

I started to make a few hearts

 

After seven rounds and changing colours this heart is finished

 



 

and some more are finished

 

 

All done

 

 

some baby knitting

 

 

some bunting!

 

 

these few bits

 

become Peter the parrot - ready for a pirate parkrun

 

 

some shorty trainer socks

 

 

The knit n natter ladies have started some squares

for our next project

 

 

A few of these

 

 

OOOOOOooooo and what are these for??!!!

 

 

and finally this little chap

 

Thanks for popping by and hope to see you again soon

 

Xx Joy xX