CoronaCal starts Monday 21st March....gather your stash together

Been a while since i posted but there are 400 freebie patterns to have fun with on here if you do a bit of a search. 

I've also added the Hardanger Granny Blanket pattern to Ravelry today too and will be adding several more new patterns over the next few weeks..enjoy x

HARDANGER GRANNY BLAKET Click link

With all the doom and gloom around at the moment i thought a long waited for CAL might help one or two, so starting Monday 21st March I will be doing a 

CoronaCal

ARAN or DK COLOURS FOR THE MOTIFS IN ORDER OF USE

Stylecraft Special or 2 strands of dk work too for Aran, or use dk only but the motif will be smaller

YARN COLOUR LIST FOR THE FIRST MOTIF, pattern on Saturday 21st March

1: SPICE
2: POMEGRANITE
3: PALE ROSE
4: PISTACHIO
5:SAGE
6: CAMEL
7: GOLD

SPEARS
1:  POMEGRANITE
2: PISTACHIO

OUTER BAND
1:SAFFRON
2: SPICE
3: STORM BLUE
4: DENIM

CHRISTMAS PRESENT: Free pattern Christmas Tree decoration.

Christmas tree decoration is taken from the Original pattern from a Pumpkin shawl decoration....

PUMPKIN BEAD FLOWER

The doughnut in one colour and second colour for remaining decoration. Made in cotton yarns for the tree decorations.

US Terms

 DK Cotton, 4mm hook

PUMKIN FLOWER TREE DECORATION PATTERN

First col. Finger wrap of 15 wraps,

ROUND 1: 14sc into ring, sl st, to complete,

ROUND 2/3: cont. to sc over the top of the first round, spacing the sts carefully until you have done ANOTHER 40 sc, sl st to complete weave in end.

ROUND 4: Change to main colour, [equally sp, 8sc around the bead], sc, ch2, between each sc, sl st to complete. [8 x ch2 loops] 

cont. in same col.

ROUND 5: 3sc into each ch2 loop, sl st, to complete cont. [8 loops]

ROUND 6: ch5, miss 2sts, sc into next st, ch5, miss 2sts, sc into next st, repeat to end sl st into first st. [8 x ch5 loops] cont. in same col.

ROUND 7: 4sc, ch3 picot, 4sc, into same loop, repeat in all loops, sl st to complete, add ch20 sl st, into fist st, to make a hanging loop.

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!

NEW DESIGNS FROM THE RUNNING BEAR BLANKET

RUNNING BEAR BLANKET PATTERN HERE

Click the above link for the original pattern

I'm making Phil a Runing Bear Blanket for Christmas...my son snaffled the original.

As the original was made from left overs I can't make an exact copy. So it won't be exactly the same but a version of it.

There have also been a couple of new designs come from repeating a section on the new Running Bear....oh! to have another 12 hours a day!

 I need to crochet 4 of the daisy motif and do the shaded infill to check that the design works ok...but I'm 99.9% sure it will with the modified Daisy of the Running bear.

 Start of the Running Bear for Phil 

A NEW SPINNING TOP AND LOTS OF TAPESTRY STITCH

 Such an easy but creative stitch to learn......part of Novembers Workshop

 When its complete it will be around 5'+ across and the single pattern will be in Ravelry patterns

Called 'Windmills of your Mind'