Having survived Christmas and made my way into 2020, I was extremely happy to get two new blanket designs off to my testers. My testers were all really glad to be released from the locked room I keep them in and allowed to get to work on the roughly 28 pages of the pattern put in front of them. A couple of them complained about not being allowed to go home for Christmas, but I did allow them some turkey scraps, so they should all be good to work! If I can force them to all work really hard, not sleep and generally crochet 24 hours a day, I am hoping to have the designs really to publish towards the end of February.
I made a promise to one of my testers a few months back that I would name a design after her and so I named the two blankets, Bouquet for Bethany Blanket and Vintage Bouquet for Bethany Blanket.
The blankets are a mixture of Filet work and Popcorn stitches and I am really looking forward to publishing them. The patterns are similar, with one using a solid yarn and having a variation on the border to make it an individual design. The other a slow colour change yarn for a completely different look. Vintage Bouquet for Bethany is made using Bendigo Woollen Mill 4ply cotton and Bouquet for Bethany I have done in Scheepjes Whirl.
Yarn and colour choice can take a design and change the look of it completely. It then becomes an extension of the person making it with their choices.
Sneak peek Vintage Bouquet for Bethany Blanket coming soon.
I have been using Scheepjes Whirl yarn a bit over the last few months and had some success with my Flight of the Dragonflies Blanket and my Fishing for Luck Shawl. Both have been accepted well and are proving to be my top sellers.
Fishing for Luck Shawl is available on: Etsy (click here).Ravelry (click here) and Lovecrafts (click here).
Flight of the Dragonfly Blanket is available on: Etsy (click here). Ravelry (click here) and Lovecrafts (click here)
Left: Fishing for Luck Shawl. Right: Dragonflies in Flight Blanket.
I have quite a number of partially completed original designs on the hook at present and should have some great things coming in 2020.
Thanks to everyone who supported my designs and patterns in the past 12 months. I appreciate it!
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