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!

Weekend Bliss

Sometimes I have so many crochet and knit ideas in my head that I start to feel overwhelmed. I am like a little child in a toy store that is only allowed to choose one thing. There are so many projects I want to start preferably now and all at once of course. There are so many techniques I want to learn, so many colour and stitch combinations I want to try, so many patterns I want to create myself eventually. The list could go on forever.

To clear my crammed brain (imagine a drawer stuffed to the edge with different papers) and sort my ideas it helps me to do something completely different for a while. A few days ago I bought the Flow magazine which had a little hand-lettering practise booklet as an extra. First I thought I didn't need a booklet about hand-lettering (what is this anyway?) but then I tried it and couldn't stop to draw letters in all kinds of shapes and forms. 

It felt like some kind of meditation whereas choosing and tweaking crochet and knitting projects felt sometimes like stress in the last few days. Now I try to practise Hand-Lettering everyday for 30 Minutes or so to calm down and relax. 

Of course I couldn't help but start a new project after all, at least it's a small one. Lately I fell in love with tapestry crochet after I saw some really nice projects on Pinterest. I decided to try this new-to-me technique with a pattern I found in an old Simply Crochet magazine. I resisted the urge to go and buy brand new yarn for this i pad cover as I have so much yarn in my stash. However I'm not too happy with the colours as they rather blend than contrast each other. 

Have a happy weekend!

Currently Working On

Currently I am working on two projects at a time. Usually I try not to have too many wip (=work in progress) projects because that makes me feel sometimes a little bit overwhelmed. However I have to admit that I have put two further projects on hold...that makes four all together if we're honest.

According to my new year resolutions I started a crochet project. I really love granny squares! In 2014 I worked a pillowcase and a blanket in the classic granny square pattern, this time I wanted to do something different. I altered a pattern I found in the Simply Crochet magazine #1 to make another bright pillowcase.

Yesterday I cast on a  lovely cardigan by Carrie Bostick Hoge named Sibel. This is going to be the perfect light cardigan for spring, I can already imagine me wearing it with a nice dress while sitting outside in the sunshine. I chose my favorite yarn wich is Alpaca by Drops. The yarn is very thin and this project is probably going to take forever. But I really want to take time with this project!