Lariath- Live a Little.

After finishing our Biomedical Science degree my friend and I wanted another project to do together (like we hadn't done enough projects already). We found an amazing website devoted to making gorgeous blankets. The site has a large variety of different blanket patterns, the yarn used to make the blanket is sent out in the post in a lovely sheer drawstring bag. The patterns are very well written and the yarn is good quality with a beautiful array of colours. My friend and I each chose a pack and a pattern to crochet and updated each other on our progress which made crocheting this blanket even more fun!  As I have a habit of mashing things together I chose the blanket with the colours that I loved and then chose the blanket pattern that I preferred. It took a bit of preparation before I could start the blanket as I had to decide what order I wanted the colours in and then transfer those colours into the written pattern. I had to make an excel document so I could follow the colour p...

After giving a C2C graph blanket a try for  60 million trebles  I fell in love with the ability to make any pattern possible with a little bit of thought and planning. I also find the C2C graph fun, interesting and slightly challenging to make. The wolf blanket is the biggest blanket I have made so far and it took me about a year to make in between work, uni, buying (and doing up) a house and what little life I manage to squeeze into all that. The worst part for me was all the ends I had to sew in and I mean ALL the ends, so so so so many ends and I HATE sewing! Putting that part aside I loved making this. Just to put the size of the blanket into perspective here is a terrible picture of my double bed:  Hook off. Enjoy this post?

I have completed my third blanket for Sixty Milion Trebles. (Find out more information about this charity  Here ). I thought I'd give myself more of a challenge after completing my first c2c blanket . This time I tried a graph. I spent a while trying to decide on a graph pattern that was simple. I eventually decided on an elephant pattern as I like elephants and it looked simple enough. However at one point I ended up with 8 balls attached to my blanket and kept getting them all mixed up and tangled. The amount of times I had to rip back my work because of made a mistake was silly. Then there were the ends, THE ENDS, weaving in all those ends took me nearly as long as it did to crochet the thing (I'm really selling this I know). But it was a learning curve. I learned how to carry yarn without it showing and how to design my own graphghan. I am very pleased with how it turned out for a first try even if I did find it frustrating in parts. This has added 21,778 trebl...

I have completed my second blanket for Sixty Milion Trebles. (Find out more information about this charity Here ). This is a 36x36 inch blanket made by crocheting corner to corner (c2c). After struggling with the first blanket being so heavy to handle and my yarn holding finger getting tired I used my  DIY Crochet Accessories  for assistance. I have never tried a corner to corner blanket like this, I love it. It worked up a lot faster then my Charity Granny Square blanket . I love the colours and I quite like how random it is aswell. As I have never made a corner to corner blanket before I didn't know what pattern to do. It would annoy me if the pattern didn't finish perfectly when I got to 36 inches. I probably could have worked it out, if I could be bothered, but nah. So instead I used a  Random Number Generator  to choose the number of rows of each colour for me. I think it turned out really nice, and no annoyance of a pattern not being perfect. Anyway eno...

I have completed a 36x36" crochet blanket for the Sixty Million Trebles charity if you missed my blog with the information about this charity  Click Here . I have never made a blanket before what's a better excuse than charity. The blanket took me longer than I anticipated. It is made of all the scrap Yarn that I have. I've used up most of my scraps now which is great, I've already gone out to buy more Yarn! The blanket is made out of granny squares. Instead of making the granny squares separately and sewing them altogether all the end I joined each granny square to the blanket as I went...anything to get out of sewing. All the squares didn't make the blanket to 36" so I made a border carrying on with the granny square theme. Lastly I finished off the blanket with a row of a simple crochet stitch for ease of attaching to other blankets. 15, 615 trebles have now been added to the 60 million count. We have just passed 18.5 million! I am planning on st...

(Please read the important update at the bottom of the post)  Just a quick post to shout out about a charity I'm joining in with. I think it is a fantastic idea so here's some info: Fancy helping with a charity orientated humongous London Yarn bomb? Get involved. The aim is to make a blanket the equivalent of sixty million trebles out of handmade blankets that are 36x36". The blanket is to represent the amount of refugees worldwide.  The huge blanket will then be spilt apart to provide charities with warm blankets throughout the UK and Hand In Hand For Syria. I know the title says 'Trebles' but any stitch can be using including knitting, the stitches can all be calcualted into treble equivalents. There are also many drop off points for blankets dotted around the UK (and some other countries are involved too) There is a really friendly and active Facebook page devoted to this charity event just search for 'sixty million trebles' on F...