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Blanket Progress

I’m stuck. 😦

This is my current progress:

Blanket progress

20 finished squares and 20 almost finished. So close to making two full rows and joining them!
But my left wrist decided to be mean and a few days ago I woke up to a dull ache that wouldn’t go away. On the contrary – it went worse after I made a couple of squares (well, still circles at this point) on Wednesday and played a game on Thursday.

So now I have to take a break from both of my hobbies until it gets better. 😦

The blanket project

After my first yarn adventures I was hooked and wanted to find a long – term project to work on. While searching for ideas I stumbled upon this sunburst granny square tutorial by Bella Coco and fell in love. I knew I wanted to make a blanket for my bed that would be mostly blue (I love blue), I just needed to figure out the rest of the colors. That took some time but I’m quite happy with the yarn I chose – Cream, Pink, Lilac and Blue Stylecraft Baby DK from Loveknitting.com. Their service is superb and the yarn itself is lovely and soft.  Continue reading

First crochet attempts

It’s funny. My grandmother tried to teach me how to crochet when I was a kid. And I hated it – I could never get it right and I thought it’s only for grannies, duh!

But recently It’s been all around YouTube and it caught my attention so I decided to give it a try.

My first choice of yarn was a bit of a disaster. It was fluffy and tangled all the time so I had to undo my stitches a lot – quite a frustrating experience for a beginner. I then went on a quest for the perfectly smooth yarn! And returned home with a few balls of shiny cotton yarn – I was so excited.  Continue reading