Community Crochet

Over on Instagram

 there is something very exciting happening!

The lovely ladies in my crochet circle

 have been busy making beautiful flower squares

 for a special community crochet project

The Spring Flower Blanket.

I love the crochet community on Instagram

 where I have made good friends with other like minded ladies

 who work at home enjoying colour and yarny goodness.

To bring us all together

 I decided to organise a community blanket make.

A few months ago

 I set about writing the instructions and launched the sign up.

 I was swamped with interest!

 WOW

 how wonderful to have so many enthusiastic hooky friends!

Each lady was to make the same size square in

Stylecraft Special DK

using any pattern with a flower.

I encouraged them to be adventurous and try something new!

The agreed colour palette was

sherbet, cloud blue, lavender, wisteria, clematis, apricot,

soft peach, lemon, saffron, fondant, candy floss,

 pale rose, meadow and spring green.

I chose this yarn

 as it is so affordable, easily washable

 and I know many of the ladies already have it in their stash!

It wasn't long

 before they started arriving at Patchwork House.

Imagine my delight coming home to happy mail like this!

It was such a joy

 to arrive home from school each day

 knowing there would be beautiful flower squares waiting for me

each square has been made with love

 and oh so much talent!

You can follow the progress of this community project at

#thepatchworkheartcommunityblanketmake

on Instagram

Many of the ladies

 trialled several squares  before making their final piece

I feel so privileged

 to be the custodian of these beauties

and have spent many happy moments

 ooohhhing and ahhhing

making arrangements of the squares for the blanket!

At last the closing date has come

 and I now have over 120 squares made all over UK.

I'm sure you will agree that these are stunning!

So now my half term pleasure

 is to make the blanket

powered by chocolate

 and 

many mugs of tea

joining has now begun.

Working with white as a background to set off all the pretty colours,

 I am using a flat braid join.

 Each square is being edged with 1 round of dc first

 then join as you go.

 I chose this joining method as it is very forgiving

 and will accommodate squares made with differing numbers of stitches.

In a few weeks

 the completed blanket will be won by 1 of the makers. 

This lucky lady has the choice of

 keeping it, gifting it or using it to raise money for charity.

So I'd best get back to my hookin now

 to join a few more squares!

This week is a very special time in the life of

 The Patchwork Heart

as I have been invited to visit the lovely people at

Stylecraft Yarns

eeeeeeeekkkkkk

I am so unbelievably excited

can this really be happening to me?!

I will be back with photos at the weekend

keep watching!

happy half term

Heather

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