Another Completed Community Project Blanket

 Welcome everyone!

Remember an earlier report on the progress of our blanket squares? Well I have finally finished putting squares together for one blanket. I used the brightly coloured squares for this blanket. I crocheted the squares together using the Zig Zag Slip Stitch.

I also crocheted the same border as I did with the previous blanket. I guess you can tell I like it a lot, plus, it's easy. It's the Camel Stitch Border and if you would like to know how to crochet it too, here is the link to the video I watched.   

So I guess you'd like to see how it turned out. Well here it is all folded up.

  Here you can see the border a bit better.

And, below you see the blanket unfolded on the floor.

And here is one of my granddaughters laying on it to give you a better idea as to the size of the blanket.

I am disappointed at how the squares all bubbled up. I was careful to join them loosely but I guess the squares where not square enough. One reason that I prefer crocheting an entire blanket. One day I'll get this square thing worked out.

However, we do have another warm blanket for our Community Blanket Squares Project completed!

I still like these squares. I like the fact that they are solid crochet. I had started a bunch of other squares for a second blanket like this one, using neutrals and shades of purple. Hopefully that one will come together better.

All the best in your knitting, crochet or sewing project!

Still Crocheting Away!

Did you think that I stopped crocheting? No I haven't, as a matter of fact I have so much to share with you, I just never really had the time to post everything!

I still Have some Christmas 2019 projects to post, but decided to share with you some current things going on first before I play catch up.

First off, I wish to share with you that I have an assignment from the Relief Society (a women's organization of my church) to find community projects we can serve in and help others. Many of the women in our congregation either knit, quilt, or crochet. Some even do it all! Any way, in January of this year we decided to make blankets for the homeless, and for those in need with very low incomes.

We did not want people to feel overwhelmed at the idea of making and entire blanket, so we decided that no matter the area of expertise they have, they could work in squares that we could start assembling in September to drop off at the beginning of November. We made a goal of finishing at least 3 to 4 blankets.

Well, it looks like we are going to end up with many more blankets to give out, and some of the ladies decided they would rather make an entire blanket! I look forward to sharing with you the progress of our project with you. I will still post my personal projects as well.

For today I will show you three photos.

This is the first collection of squares made. You can see there are both crochet and knitted squares here.

More squares started arriving so I took another photo.

As you can see, the pile is growing! I think there enough to make nearly 3 blankets here!

Now I wish to share with you something that I thought I would try out. I have so much yarn left over form other projects. Any where from a couple of yards to an almost full ball of yarn. So I decided that I wanted to make a heavier blanket by using two strands of yarn at a time. When one colour ran out, I'd add another, intergrading all my yarns that way to make a nice thick, and hopefully colourful blanket.

So part way through I took a photo to share with you and get your opinion.

I'll share other photos of this blanket soon.

Thank you for stopping by!