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another short sleeved sweater for me ::

Posted by vicki brown on Feb 11, 2011

so as I said, new knitting skills require practice and well, what perfect excuse to knit myself a new sweater.

I saw this beautiful Katia Peru yarn in my local yarn store a few weeks ago and fell in love with it. It's super chunky and soft and I imagine it will be oh so warm too.

I found a fabulous book of fair isle in the charity shop this week, it has some really interesting history of the...

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crochet a rainbow ::

Posted by vicki brown on Jan 24, 2011

I came across Sarah London's blog and this post in particular whilst reading meet me at mikes, she is calling for donations of crocheted granny squares, which will become fabulous handmade blankets to be gifted to those who have been affected by the Australian floods.

In her words ::

I’m asking for donations of granny squares which I will then make up into blankets to be distributed to those...

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heart granny square :: a pattern ::

Posted by vicki brown on Jan 18, 2011

Granny square pattern with a little something different. This heart centred crochet granny square would make a gorgeous afghan blanket.

Please note this pattern is written here in english crochet terms, which differ from american crochet terms, there is a fabulous table here which gives translations of all the stitches I've use here.

ingredients ::

3 x contrasting balls of double knit weight yarn.

I used stylecraft special double knit 100% acrylic in cream (A) pale rose (B) and raspberry (C)

4 mm crochet hook

Abbreviations ::

ch -...

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a blanket for the rug ::

Posted by vicki brown on Jan 17, 2011

well a blanket version of the rug at least.

Ever since we got this rug I've intended to crochet a blanket which matched in some way. Originally I was just going to use the colours and do a traditional granny square blanket. But the more I've admired the rug and thought about the blanket to accompany it, the more I thought an exact replica might be the way to go.