$8.95 Au For the month of launch (October 2021) $1.00 from each pattern sale will go to The Flying Doctors Service Australia as a small tribute for Cindy. I am pleased to announce the amount donated being $174

Uk and US Terminology

Sometimes in life (if you are lucky enough) you become friends with someone who just gets you. I was fortunate enough to have found such a friend when Cindy Cary signed on to be one of my long term pattern testers. I miss her not only as a pattern tester but as a friend.

Cindy discovered that she would be having to hang up her crochet hook and move on, way before she or anyone of us could have wanted. I spoke to her just days before this happened. I asked if it would be okay if I designed one of my signature dragonfly blankets to remember her by. I asked her about my plan to name it and she said she loved the idea.

So this is for Cindy Cary, Aka Cindee Rose.

I tried to incorporate many of the things I knew Cindy loved, into this blanket. Dragonflies, Bendigo Woollen Mill Cotton and the colour purple. I added little flowers as I know I gave Cindy nightmares a few years back when I designed a blanket with small embroidered flowers. It was a long and tedious task to embroider those flowers. While this blanket is missing the embroidery, it has many small roses . The dragonflies are on their own journey skywards along a path lined with these flowers.

Once I had this design ready to test, I asked my group of pattern testers if they would consider testing in the colour purple. I said I wanted a sea of purple blankets on show when I published this in honour of Cindy. I was amazed at how many of them signed on to do so. View this sea of purple in honour of Cindy in the slide show below.

Materials:

3.5mm Hook

3x Bendigo Woollen Mill 4ply cotton. 200grm balls.  670m/732.7yd per ball. Col. Pale Lilac. Approximate total yarn used. 1940m/2121.6yd (click here for supplier)

Tapestry needle

Scissors

Yarns that could be substituted for BWM:

King Cole Giza (Click here supplier).

Phildar Phil Coton 2 (Click here supplier).

Rowan Summerlite 4 ply (Click here supplier).

The pattern comes with separate copies for Uk terms and USA terms. It has many photos to help along the way.

A digital download PDF of the pattern can be purchased via the Buy it now button on this page, or it is also available on the links below.

Please note that this pattern is written for the size shown. The edging stitches work out correctly for this size. Any changes to the pattern will require your own recalculations for the edging.

The pattern can be found on Ravelry (Click here), *Etsy (Click here).

Bendigo Woollen Mills (coming soon) , Lovecrafts (coming soon) ,

The pattern has a new stitch I designed to give the look of surface slip stitch. I have named this stitch a reverse surface slip stitch double crochet (US terminology). A huge thank you to my good friend Fiona Campbell of Flo’s Crafty Crochet who has vey kindly produced a video tutorial for this stitch for me. (click here for the video) or view below. Please subscribe to Flo’s Crafty Crochet you tube, so I can twist Fiona’s arm to produce further videos for me.

Errata: Round 33: Remove Trp/Dtrp from the stitch counts.

Row 65: Ch2, Sc/Dc. Sc should be worked into the next stitch.

A selection from my pattern testers

A huge thank you to my incredible pattern testers. I asked for a sea of purple and you all delivered!

Sallyanne Fisher (sallys_desert_crochet) Yarn: Bendigo Woollen Mill 4 ply cotton in Pale Lilac. (click here for supplier) . Yards 2390.71. Meters 2186.06. Hook: 3.25mm. Measurements: Point to point rd 70 on one panel: 30.5 in/77.47cm. Middle to one point: 30.5 in/ 77.47 cm. Point to point across blanket: 63.75 in/161.925 cm. Mid-panel to mid -panel across: 53.5in/135.89cm. Middle blanket to middle of a panel side: 26 in/ 66.04.

Kerri Nosworthy (KaNotty). Yarn: Bendigo Woollen Mill 4 ply cotton in Crushed Violet. (click here for supplier) . (1675m). 3.5mm hook Measurements: 142cm point to point.

Colleen Harris (mummaflossy). Yarn: Bendigo Woollen Mill 4 ply cotton in Violet, (click here for supplier). 600 grams or 2010 metres used. 3:5 mm hook. Measurements: Point to point across 142 cm, flat side to flat side across 120cm and point to point on edge 70 cm.

Simone Howes (simone.makes) Yarn: Bendigo Woollen Mill 8 ply Cotton in Violet (click here for supplier). 870gm used. 3.5mm hook.
Measurements: 170cm/66”.

Trish Perry (sawabonasoul). Yarn: Robin DK in Violet, 30 skeins. Measurements: 49” from flat edge to flat edge. 3.5mm hook.

Kathy Mant (KathyM66). Yarn: Stenli Muffin, 1950m used. 3.5mm hook. Measurements: 140cm point to point, each side is 65cm.

Catherine Henderson (gizmo.henderson). Yarn: Patons Big Baby 4 ply 459 yards/420 meters 100gm. Total used (rounded to nearest 100g) 476gm. 3.0mm Hook.

Stephanie Joann Nolasco (ssuarez05, crochet cuties). Yarn: Impecable loops and thread. 2,565 yds used. Measurements: 93 inch x 93 inch.

Naga Krishnaja (chiccrewel). Yarn: Qswal knit plus yarn 4ply. Measurements: 160cm point to point. 140cm from straight edge, across to straight edge.

Elika Rivera (little peaches, littletinker21). Yarn: Caron One Pound in Lilac.

Text Editing Credit to: Nikki Barker