3 String blanket!

3 String blanket!

So I normally have at least a few projects on the go at any one time, which reflects my poor attention span really, but anyway, I found a local shop which was selling this gorgeous wool for £1 a ball and its made in Bradford, my home town so just seemed perfect.  And just had to get it and do this straight away.

Had the idea for this floating around in my head for a while to blend  3 threads together to create a fading colour effect, [ having taken inspiration from here] and thought it would give me a lovely snug thick blanket.   

The wool I used is ‘woolcraft, DK New Fashion’ and for a cheap yarn is very soft and was lovely to work with. The colours I used were red, blue, orange green and purple, although I am unsure of  shades ect, reason for picking these shade? Well they were what they had in the shop but they work very well together!. I used a size 12mm hook to work with. Started with 3 strands of the same colour, then on each round replaced one strand with the next colour, ie I  was working with 3 blue then 2 blue 1 green, then 1 blue 2 green then 3 green, ect, till I began to reach the end of balls and then I replaced with the next colour as one ran out and worked till I ran out of wool.  

In total the blanket just covers my double bed [uk sizing] and took 3 x 100g balls of each colour, so 15 balls in total, I had a little bit left where I was unable to complete a final row. And was a very quick project for me to do. Taking roughly 7 hours of continuous work [did it over around 3 days] however is hard going to work with so had to take several breaks! Completely loved the project though and the end result! Can wait till it goes a bit colder to try I out! 

Yarn bombing butterflies

Hello, so around 3 weeks ago I did my first ever yarn bomb! Yay, the original plan was to do it in a wood somewhere but I left these little butterflies behind, so the opportunity arose where I could do it with not to many people around and these are the end results!  

Really enjoyed doing this, but I wonder whether they are still there or if they have even been spotted and enjoyed by anyone!  Hopefully get some more done when I’m a bit ore out and about

Have you ever spotted any yarn bombing in you local area? What would you like to see bombed?

why dont you let me know over on my facebook page? and maybe even like it while your there!

Helen

poor Health

hello everyone!

Some-of you will already know that's i've been rather unwell the past few weeks, [details can be found on my running blog]  but as i've began to feel a little less pain it began to give me time to crochet, therefore over the next few post will be about the works i've done so far! got quite a few WIP's finished!!

this is nurse Molly at a local fisheries, where they keep koi in an old swimming pool, some of them are Massive! but isnt this a lof goldfish?!!  this was my first trip out post hospital:-) 

and as you can see i managed to do a little bit in hospital, unfortunately i could quite life my right arm without being in excessive pain and therefore this was abandoned after just the one granny square!  this square is part of a blanket i am doing where i have only bought 5 balls of wool, 'the 5 ball blankie' will update on that later! 

now i have more time on my hands im currently considering other ways i could fund-raise for Child flight, so any commissions are welcome, and ive began to design some things to sell patterns for!  will update as and when i can! 

for the time being everyone take care! 

Helen