Growing Granny

Just a quick update on my flowers in the snow granny blanket. I love to see it grow.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Tea with Granny

It's that day of the week again, Friday! You know that day that introduces you to a long, relaxing weekend. I already have some down-to-earth plans for my weekend like doing some grocery shopping, housework (rather not cool) and baking a (hopefully) delicious lemon cake. But the best of my weekend is a huge amount of time for my projects!

This week I started a new granny square blanket that will hopefully become bigger than throw size like my last two granny blankets. As a pattern I chose the flowers in the snow granny square that can be found here at Solstrikke. For the first time I am using the joining as you go method and I love it!

While the granny blanket is in its early stages my current knitting project is progressing faster than I thought. I joined the sleeves of the Sibella Cardigan this week and I started working on the lace section. It's so satisfying to watch the lace pattern grow with every row. 

Now I have to get back to my hooks and needles.

Have a great weekend!

Triangular Granny Pillow

Oh don't you just love the feeling of finishing another project? 

There are those long-term projects that make you proud and satisfied. You proved yourself that you can be persistend and patient. I'm very close to finishing a project I am working on since May 2014! It took me almost one year to finish it but more on that in the next post. 

On the other hand there are those projects that are gratifying because they are quick to work and give you almost instant satisfaction. You can watch them grow almost every day. In creative life I always need projects from both categories to keep me happy and motivated. 

The Triangular Granny Pillow was clearly an instant satisfying project. It took me about two weeks (next to other projects) to finish this soft colored pillow case. For this project I altered a pattern I found in the Simply Crochet Magazin #1 to make the triangles smaller. When I started this project just like that I didn't think it would make such trouble to join the triangles. Maybe I should have worked some kind of space where the triangles meet because after joining they were totally squished. Nevertheless blocking made everything look better again. Yet there are many bumps and holes. For the back I worked half double crochet.

When crocheting I fell in love with the color combination mustard yellow and pale rose- I have to make a project with these colors soon.