Crochet: Hellebore flower

A few weeks ago I decided to crochet some of the flowers that I have in the pattern book "100 flowers to knit & crochet" by Lesley Stansfield.
This flower was so quick and easy to knit, it was done in minutes. There are only 4 rows to make. Haven't made a faster project.

Crochet: Update 2 Dutch blanket

And the blanket is finished. It was a lot of work, but I really loved doing it.
Here are some pictures of the finished blanket.

This last picture is an attempt at a full view of the blanket. I nearly succeeded.

Crochet: Circles of the Sun pillow

On 22 September 2015 my yarn for this pillow arrived. I have decided to make both sides with the patterns, so I bought double the amount of yarn than I expect to need for the one side only. It is great looking yarn. It is drops cotton light. It feels very nice, it is 50% cotton and 50% polyester.

On Friday 6 November 2015 I went on a 4 day trip. I wanted to take a project along, but as I only had large projects on the go I couldn't take any of those along. I had already purchased the yarn for this project so I decided to take this one along. I also had to check it in as I couldn't take it along as hand luggage. I didn't want to risk loosing my needles or crochet hook. So in the plane I read. It was only a short flight, less than 1 hour.

On Saturday 7 November 2015  I started making the pillow.

This is the first square that is finished.

And this is the second square.

Plenty more squares the go. There are 9 squares on each side of the pillow. So 16 more to go.
I am working on the third square, but I will do that later, as I want to finish some projects first. I will update when more gets done on this project.

Feel free to leave comments, I welcome them.

Crochet: Update 1 on the Dutch blanket

On the weekend of 10 October 2015 I finished crocheting the last few squares of the blanket. Here are the sets from week 15 up to and including 24. 

After this the work of putting them altogether is going to start. I am looking forward to it and also really looking forward to making a very nice rim around the blanket to finish it off very nicely.

So far I am having a great time with making this blanket, despite it being a lot of work. I have seen picture of finished blankets and they are looking really good. So, slowly we move on.

I will update again in some weeks.

Crochet: Dutch blanket

After I finished making the Sophie blanket, I started making the Dutch blanket (Hollanddeken). This blanket was also made in a Crochet A Long (CAL).
I am on week 16 now. It is a total of 26 weeks. I have all the patterns already as I was a late starter, just like with Sophie.
The Dutch blanket is not on a website. It is published through a facebook group and only in Dutch as far as I am aware.
The patterns do not include Tunesian crochet, but as I like that better to crochet an image into a square I used that. This means that I am by height right, but in width I am not, so I will adapt them to fit with the rest of the squares.

Here are the photos of the 16 finished weeks.

Crochet: The Sophie Blanket

Several months ago I ran into a Crochet-A-Long (CAL) which was about making a blanket, designed by Dedri.
Here you find the page where it all starts: http://www.lookatwhatimade.net/crafts/yarn/crochet/sophies-universe-cal-2015/sophies-universe-cal-2015-information/
I fell in love with it. Despite the fact that I hadn't done any crochet in at least 20 years and couldn't even remember how most stitches were done, I decided I was going to make it.
I was a very late starter, but that didn't feel like that would be a problem, as I read I wasn't the only one starting late.
I love the way it turned out.
Below you find a few pictures of my blanket.