I found these photos of this Flower Garden Scarf motif blanket buried in my Flickr photo collection. I’ve been working, little by little, to get my Flickr account pictures updated with pattern and blog post links. I find it’s really helpful when others put these links up, so I’m trying to do this myself, but the process is really time consuming!
I’ve had to space it out, working on a few photos at a time. The job is pretty much complete. Now I’ll just have to keep up with all the new blog photos, not to mention Ravelry notebook upkeep. (How did a little hobby get to be so time consuming?)
So, about the actual blanket. The Flower Garden Scarf pattern from Stitch ‘n Bitch: The Happy Hooker is the basis of the whole blanket. Basically I made the scarf and just kept going. I learned the join-as-you-go technique crocheting the flowers together and I am convinced this is the best way to put together motifs.
I’d like to try the Prairie Star afghan at some point, and that’s joined the same way. The Moonstitches blog has a great tutorial on join-as-you-go piecing, using photos from her beautiful hexagon blanket.
Another project I worked on last summer was the Daisy Flower Charity Square for Krochet Krystal. I used Krystal’s photo from her blog because I never took a picture for myself. (Thanks Krystal!)
The pattern is free, but you are required to join a Yahoo! group and she asks that you donate a square to her cause as well. The top four are mine and each one took about 20-35 minutes to make. These squares are challenging to work, but the finished square is solid and very striking.
I can’t imagine how time consuming it must be to be so organized. My poor Ravelry notebook isn’t even close to up to date. I’m a slacker.
I love Krystal’s Daisy square pattern. You make them much faster than me. My first square took me forever to figure out. Now I can make one in about an hour, but no faster than that. Maybe I’m just slow? Its definitely a time consuming process but I love the end result. I’m making 2 squares a week to hopefully have enough for a blanket for a Christmas gift this year.
Aww, thanks for adding me to your blogroll!
I love the Daisy square too. I have the pattern, but haven’t had time to try it out yet. Yours are looking lovely.
If you love the join as you go then you must do the Prairie Star! It so much fun to make and really go’s quick. I’m almost finished with mine and ready to make another one.
Well it is nice to hear that you have done the daisy square. I want to make my daughter a daisy square afghan for her b-day next month. So I hope I can figure it out. I’m a little nervous. That’s awesome that you are getting so organized. That is all on my to do list. I have like nothing in my Ralvry notebook.
I love the daisy squares they are way to cute. I try to keep up with my Ravlery notebook whenever I update my blog I try to update my notebook. Great job on the squares keep it up it’s cute.:)