Creative Process

The majority of my blankets are commission pieces, and they are all different, but they are all designed and created in the same way. I have all these colourful little pegs of all my yarn colours and I pick out the suitable ones and play around with making colours schemes.

Tinkerbell

Today I'm sharing a set I made a little while ago, but have only just gifted them to their new tiny owner, and now I can share :) I decided that I wanted to experiment with C2C (corner to corner) crochet, to create an image. I picked Tinkerbell, got some graph paper and got to work!

Temperature Afghan 2017

This year I'm working on a project I've been wanting to do for years, a temperature afghan. A blanket, that shows the temperature changes of an entire year.

I was prompted to finally start my temperature afghan project by a crochet-a-long hosted by Susan of Felted Button, the facebook group for the CAL can be found here :D The requirements for this CAL is simple, make a temperature afghan using one of Susan's patterns. I already had a few Felted Button patterns in my collection, and for this project i chose to use the Flying Colours pattern, using the colour of that day's high for the first two rounds, and using the colour of the low for the square's border colour, that connects all the squares. It's a very enjoyable pattern that I've now had memorised for a long time, it takes me a few minutes to whip up a square, join, and weave in the ends :)

Here's my chart, I've already used every colour other than the coldest! I'm using my fave yarn for blankets, Stylecraft Special DK, and these are my colour pegs :D

temperature colour chart

The First Blog Post

I first created this blog a long time ago, and completely forgot about it. Until now! I plan to mainly fill it with things related to crochet, and to link it with my Facebook page (SionedMaiCrafts).

It's late at night that i am writing, or, well very early on a Wednesday morning! But i don't work Wednesdays, and I've just been working nights, so naturally, my sleeping pattern isn't great! Last week I finished my last baby blanket commissions and found myself with some free time to get into a looooong term project (Pink Granny Squares on Ravelry). It's coming along nicely, I've added an entire row, plus a few extra squares on top :) I've had a hard time getting this blanket done, I find plain granny squares quite boring, and the colour selections and short round makes it take more of my attention than some other projects do - simply put, I have to pay attention to what I'm doing and can't pay attention to Netflix as much as I'd like! :P

Pink Granny Squares (Ravelry)