My circles within squares cotton blanket is complete!
Here it is. Well here it is in duplicate as it looked so lovely out in the sunshine.
I kept the border simple, choosing one of the blue colours to highlight the edge.
I’m pleased I stuck to my gradual colour scheme instead of just mixing them up.
It is lovely and malleable and soft
I just need to find a couple of props to photograph it officially for my as yet empty (don’t really care if I don’t sell anything because I just love to crochet) etsy shop.
And I’ve started another.
A straight forward giant granny. It’s in Scheepjeswol cotton 8 again. It’s only 4 ply so it takes a while but I think worth it.
Oh, and I’ve named my shop. ‘Baby One-of-A-Kind’. But don’t go looking for it. It’s not open for business yet.
Love, Lucie xx
I really like the graduated look – what colours did you use?
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I’ll get back to you on this!!
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Great colours Lucie, and I think your ordered approach works really well. I am a big fan of clean design and good use of colour xx
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Thank you. That is exactly what I like too!
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Beautiful. Good luck with selling your first blanket – even if you don’t mind if you don’t.
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Looking at all the other shops I can see it is highly unlikely that someone would stumble across it, let alone actually buy it! But hey, it costs pennies to run and a shop with a few items in it looks better than just one lonely blanket;)
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I bet you’ll be surprised at who finds you.
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The graduated colours are soothing. To me at least!
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I completely agree!
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Fabulous 🙂 Gorgeous colour choices.
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Thank you very much!
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Aw, I’m almost getting broody, they’re lovely!
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Ha, no, our days of babies have gone. Or maybe yours haven’t???;)
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Yup mine have! Though 2 years ago for we ‘tried’ but only for about 4 months. Think it was a last attempt before the biological clock’s battery ran out!
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sooooo pretty. looking forward to seeing your shop up and running 🙂
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Just as birth is, it’ll be a miracle if anything gets sold! Especially as I’ll be marking it at a decent price.;)
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Stick to your decent prices because you know what your work is worth (not to mention the cost of the materials used). There will always be someone who will consider the price too high, and you must simply ignore them. 🙂
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I love your colours – subtle but still eyecatching. A brave choice with the 4 ply!!
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I’ve just tried to imagine what I would like to actually wrap a baby in – if I was making for one of my own – which I’m definitely not!
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Well now you’ve got me impatient to see your shop so hurry up and open it!! I absolutely love the way this blanket has turned out, so much, dare I say, nicer than the more usual, predictable ones you come across. I hope it finds a deserving new owner soon after it’s listed:)
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Well, it would be nice but I’m certainly not holding my breadth! Especially as I’ll not be giving it away!
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I should hope not – it would be nice to think that we could sell crochet at a price somewhere near reflecting the work involved but, like you, I wouldn’t hold my breath!
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Gorgeous, such pretty colours and they work so well together!
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Thank you. I would have loved it for one of my own, but my baby days are long gone!
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Love the colours, and good luck with your etsy shop
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Thanks. I’m just waiting until I’ve 3 blankets, then I’ll open it. I’m still not expecting to sell anything though!
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Oooo lovely 😊
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Thank you! Hope you had a lovely holiday!
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Yes thank you! Been back to work since Tuesday. Can’t WAIT for the weekend!!!
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Know the feeling!!
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I agree. The graduated colours look stunning. Well done and good luck with the shop when you finally open it 😁 x
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Thanks, if I ever get it opened!!!
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You have a great eye for colour – those are really beautiful blankets!
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Thank you. There are so many influences out there I can’t take all the credit for them!
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Wow, you are really cracking along with these! I’m sure your 4 ply one is coming along much quicker than my dk version!!
Since your last crochet-related post, I have taught myself to do granny squares (isn’t youtube wonderful?) and, barring a couple of muddles at the beginning (something went wrong on top of my new colour joins, not sure what) and a strange propensity to do four trebles instead of three from time to time (why? why??), it’s going ok. That decided me on the format – just keep going on a bigger and bigger granny square. Hopefully, by the time (if ever) I do individual squares, the pattern will be so ingrained in my mind that the beginning stages will be a doddle!
I was doing 3 rows of each colour. Still not sure if you do the 3 chain, half motif in the corner, go round, complete the corner motif thing just when joining on new colours, or all the time …
😮
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