WIP - BABY BLANKET PROGRESS

Hello Dear Friends!
 Wow! Time flies... It has been twenty days since I last posted and it seems only just like yesterday. I didn't do much while I was not blogging.I was, for sure , following my favourite blogs and I was crocheting a little working on my soon to be born nephew's blanket.

I have made thirty squares and joined them only to realise that it is too small to be even a baby blanket. Then I started to crochet twelve more squares and I am working on those squares at the moment.

I remembered one more thing ! I finished a baby top-down baby cardigan too.

I knitted this cardigan just to learn how to knit a top-down cardigan and it was too small for an actual baby but my best friend's eleven year old daughter welcomed it for her doll.
I'll go back to crocheting now. Have a lovely week-end. Gaia.

Baby colour palette

Hello Dear Friends!
At last,I have found what I will crochet with my new yarn: A blanket for my sister's baby. My sister is due September but I have a feeling that the baby will come early. And it's a boy!

The pattern is Priscilla Hewitt's ( I love her patterns! ) octagon medallion pillow-ghan square.

I showed my sister the squares I have made so far and her eyes sparkled! It is so enjoyable to crochet this pattern but it takes a little bit longer time than crocheting a regular granny square.

I cannot wait to see this baby blanket finished!
Have a lovely day! GAia.

NEW WIP- CROCHET SQUARE

Hello Dear Friends!
It has been long time since I have last posted but the weather in Cyprus is so hot ( reaching above 40 degrees C ) that it is almost impossible to crochet. Yesterday though, we had a shower for almost half an hour and the temperatures fell to around 25 degrees C; how nice it is to live in such a climate!
After searching and searching for a suitable pattern for a summer crochet project, I came across with this pattern. I have tried it with sifferent types of yarn and I finally reach a satisfying result with a microfibre yarn and 2,5 mm hook. So here it is;

Have a nice day! Gaia.

PLENTY

Hello Dear Friends!
This is my plum tree. When I look at it , it reminds me of the word ''plenty''.

Have a nice day!

Blooming Flower Cushions Ta-da!

Hello Dear Friends,
Yes,you read it right! This time I have two blooming flower cushions, a pattern by attic24 .

The colourful one is a long time pending project, I crocheted the back and the front and tossed it away and forgot about it because I did not like the circle I crocheted for its back. Then yesterday I gave it a second thought and I gave it a try ; it is not perfect in shape but it turned out to be OK.

 

 I have made the pink one to match my 'Beautiful Blanket' .

Have a lovely week-end!

Beautiful Blanket progress

Hello!
It was 47 degrees C yesterday; hot very hot! And we are back from holidays.I have managed to crochet 209 circles for my Beautiful Blanket. Here are some of them:

and from a different angle;

Have a lovely day! Gaia.

hexagon tutorial

Hello Dear Friends,
After loosing my printed out pattern for my 'Beautiful Blanket', I decided to write down a tutorial so if I forget the pattern while working on other projects I have a reference to return  to.I am sure I have found this pattern on pinterest and it was from a blog in Russian but the pattern is originally Japanese because there was a graphic pattern and Japanese writings on the scanned pattern . I searched and searched the Internet to find the pattern again but in vain. So here it is :
 HEXAGON TUTORIAL

chain 4 , join with a slip stitch.

Round 1: Chain 4 (counts as a dc and a chain) dc in the ring 11 times ,chain1 join to the 3rd chain of the beg. ch4. 12dcs.

Round 2: Change colour.Join with a slip stitch to any of the ch1 spaces. Ch3 ( counts as a dc) dc in the same space and ch2, make 2 dc in the next ch1 space,repeat 10 times , chain 2. Join with a slip stitch to the 3rd chain of the first ch3. fasten off.

Round 3: Change colour.Join with a slip stitch to any chain 2 space and chain3( counts as a dc) make 2 more dc in the same space , chain1.make 3dc in the next ch2 space ,ch1. repeat 10times, chain 1 and join with a slip stitch to the 3rd chain of the 1st chain3.

Round 4: Change colour. Join with sl st to any ch1 space and chain4. SC to the next chain1 space and chain4- repeat 10more times.Do not fasten off.

 Rnd 5: Slip stitch to the ch4 space and ch3( this counts as a dc) 3 more dcs in the same ch4 space, ch3,4more dcs in the same ch4 space.

Ch1. In the next ch4 space make 4dcs.ch1.

make 4 DCs in the next ch4 space, ch1- this is where you are going to join your hexagon-join with a slip stitch to the next hexagon and ch1.

make 4dcs in the same ch4 space and ch1.

Join with a slip stitch to the ch1 space of the opposite hexagon

make 4 DCs in the next ch4 space and continue as before

I wish you good luck with your projects. I make the circles first and then I join picking the colours in an order. Here are my circles so far:

And next week I will be having my summer holidays so I will be missing from the blog land for a while.
Any questions you will have about the hexagons I will be able to answer them next week.
Have a lovely day. Gaia.