African Flowers in snow

I have crocheted a first blanket for my granddaughter! I love this pattern, African Flowers. It's easy to crochet, it's nice to crochet, it's fast to crochet. It also allows you to use almost any colors without fear of them starting to quarrel. You can use all your left over yarns, it doesn't even matter if they aren't exactly the same thickness.

Here it is in the snow, waiting for a snow shower.

Close up:

Snow shower:

This used to be a common means of cleaning woolen garments and other textiles in the old days. You put them in fresh snow for about half an hour, shake off the snow and take them in to dry flat. It cleans most of the dust and refreshens the fabric.

A good advice when crocheting things like this: fasten the threads as you go... I always do that, because the amount of threads can be quite overwhelming.

My dust bin filled with threads, the floor around it was also full of threads! And this is only a very small part of them.

I'm happy with this blanket. I hope the little lady will like it too!

What next? I'm already starting to think about a bigger blanket...

Next afghan

I want to crochet a flower afghan!

Blanket for dark days

I started crocheting this small blanket in March, and now it's finally finished.

It's so dark, wet and cold in November. A red blanket makes life warmer. I used different sock yarns and a very thin weaving yarn to get a slightly thicker yarn.

Blanket!

I've been knitting this blanket since January last year. Domino knitting is a wonderful way to just - knit. No thinking. No planning. Just relaxing. I like this blanket. It's my new lap throw for cold days. Yarn: Drops Fabel sock yarn. Size: about 150x150 cm.

I crocheted a border and finished with what I think is called crab stitch. Backward single crochet:

I always have a domino knitting going. Here's the newly started:

Lot's of small skeins Sarah gave me. Most are hand dyed by Sarah and Jon Dunn Ballam of Easyknits. This will be a baby blanket.