CrochetHi all, I hope that you are doing well?

Today I would like to share a crochet project with you, the first in a while actually. I have really been enjoying crocheting and I am very glad I stuck to my New Years resolution from 2013 and taught myself this skill. I highly recommend it. I find it comes in particularly useful when I am having a bad back day as I can sit in my comfy high backed chair, with my heated therapy blanket AND still craft lol!!

So, back to the project. I wanted to make a crochet blanket as a gift for my Mum, for her Birthday. I started my choosing the colours that I wanted to use and picking the initial starting pattern. I also knew that I wanted the blanket to be more  large throw sized, really snuggly and comfy cosy 🙂

The Three colours that I chose.

I decided on the above colours as they co-ordinate with the colours in my parents living room: I knew that that was where the throw could be used the most. I also chose an easy care, (and easy clean!),  Acrylic blend yarn as I also knew that the throw would be slept upon, by my folks dog Jess!

For the starting point I decided that I wanted to use a ‘Granny Square’.  However I knew that I wanted to keep the design simple and modern. I chose therefore to keep building up the layers onto the one centre granny square which would create a striped effect:

The Grey Granny square was my starting point.

The striped layers built up to create one large and cosy granny square throw.

as I had decided to use just the three colours  for a modern look, I decided to use a variety of crochet stitches for added texture and interest – not only for the finished throw but for myself whilst I was  making it lol!

A selection of the crochet stitches that I used.

Crochet Stitches used:

• Left Grey :  U.S Treble /U.K Double Treble
• Left Red   :  U.S Treble /U.K Double Treble
• White        :  U.S Double x 1 row/U.K Treble x 1 row
• Right Red :  US Double x 1 row/U.K Treble x 1 row
• Right Grey:  U.S Double x 1 row/U.K Treble x 1

Elsewhere on the piece I used U.S Single Crochet/U.K Double Crochet, as well as the crochet stitches above. I used a 5mm metric crochet needle which is a U.S size 8/H; Canadian /U.K size 6.

Striped effect plus a close up of the subtle sparkle in the Grey wool.

Corner detail.

A white Double Crochet (U.S) edge to finish the throw.

To finish the throw I added a White (U.S)Double Crochet /(U.K) Treble crochet edge, plus the care instructions loosely pinned on:

Care instructions.

I hope that you have enjoyed this crochet share,

take Care and Happy Crafting !!

Jenny 🙂