** Squares and Blankets - Part One **

Hello there - Once the Yarndale flowers we had made at knit n natter had been sent off

the ladies said they wanted to do granny squares to make a blanket to help in the current refugee crisis - so we decided on the classic granny square which was to be six rounds and we would all do the same size squares to make the job of joining them together easier

Classic Granny Square
 

This one is a little larger but that was the pattern

 

 

Georgie did these

 

 

and forgot to sew the ends in!!

 

 

I joined the squares, did the border, sewed in the ends, cut them off and we had this baby blanket

 

 

Tracy did these

 

I joined them and did the blue border and we had another baby blanket

 

 

Liz did these

 

 

I joined them into this single bed size blanket

 

 

Sarah made these

 

 

Claire didn't send any squares but she sent me this wool - so I decided to join Sarah's squares with some of this

 

 

I joined the squares with the pink and Sarah did the border!!

 

Liz, Georgie and I did these

 

 

I joined them and our squares started to become a blanket.

 

I am a member of a crochet site on facebook and I put this photo on there asking if anyone would like to join the Isle of Wight ladies in our quest to make a refugee blanket.  I said what size classic granny squares we would like and the response has been fantastic.  The postman was delivering squares through my door daily

 

 

look at these

 

 

and these

 

 

and so the joining started

 

a few more added

 

 

some more added, the border done and here we are

 

O u r  R e f u g e e  B l a n k e t

 

 

look at this lovely pile of squishiness

 

 

Here are our blankets that we have all made together which then needed to be delivered to the collection point.  Off hubby and I went to Newport with our bag of blankets to deliver to the local wool/fabric/haberdashery shop

 

 

 

 

This is what will be happening to our blankets - Hellerslea had extended the drop off date by over a week as the response had been so great for this appeal and they were not being collected until 5th October - we delivered our blankets on the 3rd.  Hellerslea also keep their doors open for these appeals and they have a collection every six months.  I still have squares arriving from locals and from friends on the mainland too, so the next blanket is underway 

 

 

these

 

 

these

 

 

these

 

 

and these

 

This is our second single bed blanket underway

 

 

These squares were started at our last knit n natter group and have been added to the above blanket. The yellow square with the green centre was made by Rees (one of the youngsters) who is new to crocheting and comes along with his Mum.  The grey square with the green centre was made by his Mum (Liz).  The red square was made by Coral and I still have more arriving to add to finish blanket number two.

Thanks for popping by

 

Xx Joy Xx

 

PS

 

My friend Sarah sent me these

 

 one of the crochet ladies sent me these

 

 Abbie (another of the youngsters who has just started to crochet made the pink one

Alex (my young Saturday morning running buddy) made the orange one

Aren't both squares great?

 

I have yet to join them in - so I will sign off now and make a start on them all and the others I have since received to finish our refugee blanket number two

 

Before I go - I need to say a big thank you to - Bridget, Georgie, Coral, Tracy, Sarah S, Liz, youngsters Abbie, Rees and Alex - to the lovely "hookers" online - Sarah C, Jean, Amy, Mia, Melanie, Lisa, Michelle, Linda, Lauren and Shelley

to Yvonne from bonnies little crafts

and to Claire from Clairescraft for the yarn you sent me!!!

 

*** THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR JOINING IN OUR PROJECT ***

 

ttfn xx

** knitting n nattering - yet again **

Hello there -  We did parkrun at 9 am on Saturday morning, then we showered, we had cooked breakfast in the local café and then we had a stroll down by the river to town. To our surprise there was a classic car show going on down on the riverway walk.  We stopped and looked at some of the cars on our way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These scenes were on the outside of the car - fabulous

 

These chaps were sitting on the front seats - obviously keeping guard!!

 

 

 

 

 What an old jalopy - but what character

 

 

This is an old Isle of Wight licence plate before they went metric!

 

 

The Tea n Biscuit Boys were playing a few tunes

 

 

I love the character of this old building across the river

 

 

 

Can you see our shadows??

 

*     *    *     *     *     *     *

 

So on we went to knit n natter

 

 

 

Three children - two boys and one girl who have come along with their Mums for a few weeks have now said they want to learn to crochet and make squares with us and here they are having a go

 

 

This is what they started to make during the afternoon and there will be more about them another time

 

Thanks for popping by

 

Xx Joy Xx

 

PS

 

On my way home I popped into the local village church to look around the Horticultural Show

 

 

 

 

 

 

OOOOOoooohhhh that is mine - I made this back in June and thought I would enter it in the any other handicraft class - so what a lovely surprise when I popped in to see that I had won 1st prize and "Best exhibit in handicraft" - for which I got this certificate and cup

 

 

 

*     *     *     *     *     *     *

 

 

take one ball of self patterning wool

 

 

a hook and some stitches

 

 

and you have a self patterning road trip scarf!

 

Then I did

 

 

 

some cooking apples to put in the freezer

 

 

 

Then I did more runner beans for the freezer

 

 

Then I did some harmony blanket which is still a work in progress - but is now being  joined!!

 

ttfn xx