The Red Wren

I’ve started to crochet a blanket. Yay!

I’m using the Summer Garden Granny Square pattern which I found here via Ravelry. It’s so pretty. All of the squares will have the last round in white, but I’ll mix up the centres.

Wow my first February post? I remember the same thing happening last year; I was all enthusiastic about craft projects (and home projects for that matter), then I settled back in the routine of full time work and all I wanted to do once home was relax and read other people’s blogs. How do you keep your crafty projects a priority?

Today I was home sick, nothing major, just a tummy bug. While relaxing I crocheted up the remaining three of my nine squares. Why nine? Well, it seemed like a good number for a cushion and also not too many to commit to in my still very beginner stage.

There’s a problem though:

Nine isn’t quite enough to cover the cushion insert I have lying around… what to do? I could keep going and make 18, I could get a bit creative with fabric to fill in the gaps or… I could just get a smaller cushion because I have other crochet projects to move onto! What would you do?

I’m on a roll now! Two more squares today! I now have three!

My hands hurt a bit now though. Does this get better in time?

A few weeks back I enthusiastically signed up for Pip of Meet me at Mike’s Granny a Day 2010. It’s taken me a little while to get started and there’s been a lot of pulling apart failed first attempts, but today it finally clicked and I made my first ever square! It’s wonky and my hands hurt but by golly am I proud!

I’m rather optimistically making them in our lounge room decor colours as I’m visualising the finished product will be a cushion cover.

Yay!

If you’d asked me a couple of days ago to show you my yarn stash I would have pulled out a couple of balls of yarn, some half done knitting and a pair of needles. Over the weekend it has grown…..

Not a large stash, but enough to get me going. I’ve been adding patterns left right and centre to my Ravelry queue so it’s time to get knitting!

Here’s my current project:

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