Showing posts with label aran yarn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aran yarn. Show all posts

Thursday, 16 April 2020

CoronaCal update...borders tomorrow

But today whats to come next week...a square version of the #CoronaCal. Inspiration for the colours from my studio wallpaper. It's been great wallpaper, lots of ideas have come from it over the last 2years.








 Very Inspirational wallpaper

The Spinning top Blanket in wallpaper colours too

FREE PATTERN click link below




Monday, 13 April 2020

Square Spiral Blanket 2020

Little bit of Easter break playtime Square Spiral....make a good blanket i think not got the right colours yet for the centre squares.....but it works as an idea,
 I think.











Monday, 25 November 2019

Running Bear blanket spin off design...it works

Spin off sample, from the new Running Bear Blanket......

I have a pattern that works, now to play with colours.

 Burnt orange to strong and the yellow needs softening i think, just for starters..











update: it's grown but still not speaking to me yet!


Monday, 14 October 2019

My Interlocking 'v' stitch from March 2014...

Back in 2013, i bought a book about interlocking stitches, they are quite complicated to do and if you know me i don't do complicated. After studying the book for some time i developed an interlocking stitch using 'v' stitch and granny shells...nice and easy.

I also tried out different combinations of the stitch over the following years, 'v' stitch and sc, mixing aran and chunky, dc and aran and its been copied several times and called all sorts but this is a stitch i created originally.


This is the original picture from March 2014 when i first published this stitch 
US Terms always used.


Several Versions followed over the years..






 above is done with 'v'stitch and sc..just a hint of colour
 This is a cotton version.... with a different colour for each granny shell row

and a space dyed yarn version

 mixing aran and marble chunky yarn..by using a thicker yarn for the granny shells they blackberry effect pops a bit more

 A bag in interlocking 'v' stitch...


 more sc versions, mixing cotton and wool yarns together...a more subtle colour addition

 I also did a number of patterns in the pattern club in 2016 cowls and cushion..brilliant stitch for a cushion..less stretch