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My Temperature Blanket with Paint box Simply DK

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I love the Paintbox range of colours and have collected all 60 colours in the range

I made myself some really useful Popsicle sticks with the yarn wrapped around them. This helps me with my colour referencing.

The paintbox bands only have the colour code and not the colour name which I find a little bit of a pain, and once you take the band off you of course then might forget what that colour was called in the future.

By having these reference sticks I will always know what the colour name and code is.

Its also fun to play around and see how placing different colours next to each other affect the feel and look.

I have a confession

I miss the Sun, please come back. I know I moaned about being too hot, but now I am cold, I have Jeans and a jumper on for goodness sake, yesterday I had shorts and a t-shirt. I can't deal with the extreme. 

My temperature blanket has a pale yellow streak in it for today. 

I know I am fickle but please come back.

It must be why I felt like sharing my snowflake design with you all today.

Read on, but I will not be held accountable for making you feel cold.....

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Yarn Dyeing

I have always wanted to try my hand at dyeing my own yarn, but its something that scares me. I don't know why.

 The other day my Seven year old daughter asked if she could try to tie dye a t-shirt, she had watched some u tube videos and told me exactly what she needed.

 Off to the shops we went. She wanted quite a few colours, but me knowing a little bit more than a seven year old when it comes to art and crafts (only a bit mind you she is quite apt at doing things herself). I told her how we could make different colours from only buying the basic primary colours of Red, Yellow and Blue.

These are the three colours we brought....

Click on one of the three colours to go the the Range online where we got ours from only £2.99 each. We mixed up half a sachet and had plenty left over from the two t-shirts we have done so far.

 We got stuck right in as soon as we got back from the shops

Read on for the finished piece......

You can't catch me.......

I'm the Gingerbread man.

This is Hexi Number two for our Festive Hexi Blanket. Please read on for details on how to create this Hexipuff .......

Christmas in July

Since the success of my Unicorn Hexi puff blanket design I have been busy beavering away at a new design specifically for the festive season.

Here is my long awaited Christmas hexi puff design.

It has 7 motifs in total.
Christmas Tree
Gingerbread man
Santa
Robin
Angel
Reindeer
Snowflake

If you have seen my Unicorn Hexi puff Blanket previously then it will be made in a similar fashion, however there will be no plain hexis in this blanket. It will take some time to make but its the perfect pattern to pick up at your leisure.

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Ideally I would have liked to have the final blanket all finished, but I have been far to occupied with my three children that it kind of got pushed to the back to the shelf.

So I will share the 7 motifs I have made and the pattern of how to make these. I will at a later date update you all with the final borders and quantity of yarn used, though I envisage only using I ball of each colour and possibly three balls of white.

Lets start with the Christmas tree......

Temperature blankets

Have you made one yet?

They have been doing the rounds in the crochet world for a year or more now (maybe longer). I have always wanted to make one but never got round to starting it.

I like the idea of starting a temperature blanket from an important date or life changing moment rather than from the 1st of Jan through to 31st December.

This is what I am doing, my blanket starts on the 21st of May 2018 and maybe this time next year I will tell you why this was an important date for me.

This blanket for me will show my growth and journey since this date in a really visual way and yes I know its July now, but I have been fine tuning my colour choices and think I finally cracked it.

Want to see my colours I think I have 31 colours in total. I am using Paintbox simply DK colours of which there are currently 60 in the range.

You can view the full range here >>> LOVE CROCHET<<<and maybe have a guess at some of the 31 colours I have selected for my blanket.

Please read on for a small colour preview for May............

Odds and ends

 I am an advocate of using up all your odds and ends. It always makes me feel better about buying my next bundle of yarn.

Do I ever get to use up all my odds and ends......errrrmmmm no not quite but half the fun is trying to.

I have one friend who admitted that she starts a project with the aim of finishing off all her odds and ends but ends up buying new yarn to finish it off.

I promise that this little project will not have you shopping for more yarn to get it finished. Well at least I am not going to take the blame for your next spending splurge. You have to hold your hand up to your own yarn hording weakness yourself.


Without further ado .......