Wool Eater - Sorf of ...

Sarah London has published the Wool Eater blanket pattern on her website and has started a Crochet Along at the beginning of this year, she has a Flickr account where all the people taking part have uploaded images of their blankets. I'd downloaded the pdf and had a go at the pattern a while ago but didn't really know what to do with it until now. Whilst in Aldi I came across 400g giant balls of 8-10ply wool for only £2.50 - bargain - so I have decided to start making a blanket using the Wool Eater pattern as a block of two rows of colour for a third to be added later and join all of the blocks together...

Granny Square Cushion

 Currently working on a cushion for someone's birthday...I've seen alot of Granny Square cushions but realised I've never made one...Sadly I am running out of wool and accidentally just bought the wrong grey grrr...

Plethora Continued...

I subscribe to Inside Crochet - its full of patterns, not always amazing, but the last issue held a patten by Doris Chan, really easy to work up and quite adaptable. So I've made one for me using cheap acrylic DK in black, and have two works in progress, one for my aunty in black smoothie dk, and one for my sister in orange "kool" cotton...

Plethora of Crochet Jumpers . . .

I have been through a phase of trying to make my own jumpers without using a pattern, but I realised I don't think I've ever made a jumper from a pattern. That all ends now...I found this quite unusual pattern on Red Heart Yarns the pattern is downloadable but be warned its in American terminology. I used two balls (200g) of J.C.Bretts Marble chunky yarn in this quite unusual green and purpley brown.