Crochet Community Charity Blanket

 Would you like to win this fabulous blanket?

It is unique and made with love by 121 ladies in UK.

Sitting at home crocheting

 and enjoying the company of my Instagram friends on a daily basis

 is one of life's ultimate pleasures for me!

Last year we joined together and made a care blanket

 for one of our friends

 to support her through an illness.

So much good came out of our group

 and when it was over we all missed the community project.

So this winter I planned and launched the first 

Patchwork Heart Community Blanket.

Ladies in the UK

 were invited to make a 10cm square containing a flower,

 from a given colour palette of Stylecraft Special DK.

120 crocheters signed up

 and soon squares were flooding into Patchwork House.

I had the lovely pleasure 

of joining the squares into the blanket and making a border.

If you missed the original posts about the making

 you can read them HERE

The plan was to hold a draw of the makers names

 and the winner had the choice of keeping the blanket

 or using it to raise money for charity.

I am delighted to announce that the lovely Kathryn at

Crafternoon Treats

won the blanket and has decided to use it to raise money for 

Marie Curie Cancer Care.

You can take part in this draw to win the blanket

 by making a donation on her

 Just Giving Page

The draw closes at midnight on April 23rd

 and the winner will be drawn on April 25th.

For just £2 you can make a donation and have a chance to win!

This is open to anyone worldwide

 and postage will be very kindly paid by the lovely Kathryn.

As I write we are absolutely flabbergasted at the popularity of our blanket 

and thank all the lovely people who have made donations.

 In less than 3 days of the draw being open

 we have raised £2600 for Marie Curie Cancer Care!!!

If you have a blog or facebook page please share this post

 and help us make a difference!

Wishing you all a happy Sunday

Heather

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The Spring Flower Blanket

Pretty spring flowers

 to cheer up a gloomy grey Saturday morning

  

Happy Saturday to you all!

I hope you can enjoy lots of happy hooky yarn therapy today.

I have begun my day

 working on the Community Crochet blanket 

that I have been running on Instagram.

This has been made by over 100 ladies from UK on Instagram.

If you missed the original post about this you can read it

HERE

This blanket is so thick and heavy

 as many of the squares are 3D flowers

just look at the fabulous detail

 and clever crochet from so many ladies

Sitting under the blanket as I work on the border

 is providing me with hours of pleasure

the lucky winner is going to have years

  of fun and pleasure from all these unique flowers

I have used a flat braid join

 which adds a lovely lace texture

 and am now completing the blanket

 with a deep lace border!

Come back next week for the big reveal!

happy weekend friends

Heather

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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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