Another Nile Picture

 

Back to the Nile for another picture. This was one of the last ones to do and has been done for some time. I just need to  find a camera or batteries that will take decent photos so I can display some more pictures of the remaining bits.

January's Squares

Here is the progress from January until early February on the temperature blanket. Started to put the squares together in long strips otherwise leaving them to sort and piece together would become quite a slow task. Currently trying to join the strips together.

February's Squares

This little lot of granny squares are the February ones for my temperature blanket. They are made of three rounds - the first represents the minimum temperature, the second  the average, and the third the maximum temperature. The more blue the colder it was and the more green the warmer, with the bright green being warmer still.
I must admit to liking the cold weather but there was something exciting about doing the 2 squares with the bright green where it reached 14 and 13 degrees (20th and 21st if you are interested).
All this makes for a LOT of ends to sew in, especially if we have 3 different temperature ranges in a day - each colour represents 4 degrees in my blanket. It doesn't bear thinking about!
I must sew in as I go along, I must sew in as I go along, I must.......

Coastal Ripple Pack

For a number of years I have been reading blogs. One of them is attic24 written by Lucy and mostly about crochet. This lady makes some beautiful coloured things, particularly blankets. Apart from crafty stuff, some the photographs on her blog feature food, flowers and Yorkshire landscapes and are truly beautiful - and through her blog I have also found another blog that helps with getting your home organised - yes really(!).
One of the blankets that Lucy made was inspired by the sea and coast with a pack of wool being available to buy. Having admired this blanket for some time and thinking the colours might fill some of the gaps in my temperature blanket stash I purchased the pack. My plan is to make this blanket at some time by replacing the colours I use for the temperature blanket. The above photo shows the pack that arrived in a lovely bag and with a free pattern to crochet the Coastal Ripple blanket at some point in the future (I must admit it is tempting to start it, but I am not sure if my skills are up to it yet).

The First Crochet Project

About a year ago I found a crochet project online and having got a little bored of just doings lots of chain or going backwards and forwards practicing crochet stitches, I thought this might be a good project to hone my skills.
It is a temperature blanket. It consists of granny squares using different colours to represent the temperature for each day - so that means a whopping 365 squares to crochet. That should be good, regular practice if nothing else.
It was easy enough to find historical temperatures on the internet but I must have forgotten about the project or maybe I did decide to wait until this year.
So on New Year's Eve when younger people were out partying, I was at home with a glass of something and surfing the web looking at colours and eventually buying wool. That might not have been my best idea as some of the colours were not ideal when they arrived and there were gaps, but with another shopping spree a few weeks later, I had my range of colours sorted and lined up as above.
It might make more sense now looking at the colours as obviously the cool blues represent the cold temperatures and the reds the nice hot ones - watch it be a cold miserable summer this year! With the colours sorted and all lined up in order, I was ready to go.

Final Bakewell Purchase

This was the last item I bought at the Bakewell Wool Gathering - cute little fruit stitch markers - if I use them does that count as part of my 5 a day? Or is it 10 now - good grief! Not sure whether to keep these myself yet - I have some plain ones but they fall off the needles - or whether to gift them to some knitter. Decisions, decisions.
Need to download more photos before I can update the blog again. Not sure how many I have in the camera but certainly made some progress on projects this year :-)

Another Purchase

This was another purchase from the Bakewell Wool Gathering. It is alpaca wool and purchased from the lady who rears them. She learnt to crochet so she could make use of the yarn. With my beginner crochet skills at the time (miles of chain) she said that I could make a scarf purely from chain stitch, so based on that I purchased this wool. Still not started :-(
Looking at the stash of unstarted projects upstairs I really must stop buying stuff!