Colour and flowers

Colour and flowers are 2 of my favourite things,

 so imagine my delight

 when I was asked to make a blanket of bright and colourful flowers!

 Immediately I knew which pattern I was going to use

 and set about choosing my colours.

I love to dive into my stash of

 Stylecraft Special DK 

and chose

 lipstick shrimp saffron meadow

 spring green sherbet bluebell

 wisteria magenta fondant and pomegranate.

I make a batch of centres first 

and then the flower making fun begins

The pattern I am using is

 Stylecraft 9090

I chose my own colours and my favourite yarn

 Stylecraft Special DK

I am not using the cream stripes

 as the pattern suggests

 but am making a square of coloured flowers

I'm afraid I don't do random!

I have to plan each row

 to make sure there is an equal spread of colours

 and this makes me happy!

The beauty of this pattern

 is that each flower is made

 and then joined onto the blanket.

 Then its tail is sewn in.

 So the blanket will be finished

 when I get to the last flower,

 no ends to sew in!

My crochet is always accompanied by a cuppa 

and as you know

 I have to match my mug to my work!

Its the little things that make me happy!

My blanket is now 2/3 complete.

When it is a square

 I will finish it off with an outside round

 of red flowers with coloured centres.

Do come back next in a few weeks to see the finished blanket.

Edit : here is the final blanket complete with a lovely red edge

Keep warm

 my hooky friends

and

 have a happy hooky day!

Heather

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