• 2026 - Blanket - Cats - Crochet - Garment - Knitting - Socks - Sweater

    March 2026 Projects Update

    March 2, 2026 - By 

    It’s hard to believe it’s already March and I haven’t posted a finished project for 2026. I have been crocheting and knitting a lot this year, I just haven’t completed anything yet!

    I started off the year working on a crochet along with Attic24, the Wildshore Blanket CAL. The CAL takes about 2 months, with the border being released last Friday I should have finished it this past weekend, but I’m just not sure if I’m going to follow the border pattern, or pick something else. It’s the look of the final row that has me uncertain.

    I also started a raglan sweater for myself, that I have knit and frogged multiple times. I received the yarn and pattern as a Christmas gift and I started off knitting it from that, but it was a raglan sweater knit bottom up in pieces and I got frustrated with it. I thought I should switch to a top down raglan knit in once piece that I could try on as I went. Which sounded like a good plan, but then when I finished it, it ended up too big in circumference. When I told James about the latest fitting he said “you always seem to knit your sweaters a few times” I replied, “because I’m not good at it!” LOL I have the techniques down, but I really seem to struggle with garment sizing. So it’s in a time out right now while I think about how I want to fix it.

    I also started a loosey goosey sock knitalong with my friend Terri, I was meant to knit one pair of socks per month throughout the year. I started a pair in January but lost interest in the pattern and frogged it. So no January socks. I started a different pair in February, did I finish them? Also no. I am knitting them two at a time and have managed to knit the legs, do the heel turns and gusset decreases, so I think I am in the home stretch. But then I have to think of March socks…

    You’ll notice that the cats have been spending a lot of time near me as I work. Trixie is very good about leaving my yarn alone, but Miss Marple is a very naughty knitty kitty, she’s always keeping an eye on the yarn and trying to eat it, so that has contributed a bit to my slowness. Hopefully I’ll be adding a flurry of completed project posts in the next few weeks. 😉

    With that thought in mind, I have a couple changes to the blog for this year. I think I’m going to get back to the chatty blog posts I used to write, this past year of only adding projects hasn’t been as creative for me. So fair warning. I’ve also added a “spotlight” page you can access from the top menu, I’ll add photos I particularly like there. I also thought about changing the blog theme and appearance, I even purchased a new “pro” theme but I can’t get it to work the way I want. I need to learn more about working with it, maybe that will be a 2027 update.

  • 2025 - Blanket - Crochet

    2025-29 Storyteller Blanket

    January 9, 2026 - By 

    The 2025 fall blanket kit from Attic24 was the Storyteller Blanket, I didn’t really NEED to crochet a blanket, but decided I would make one if I had enough yarn in my stash, I know we are all shocked that I did indeed have enough yarn. I had to substitute a few colours, but I think they were good replacements. This one is in the to be gifted bin.

    Pattern: Storyteller Blanket by Lucy of Attic24 

    Craft: crochet

    Made for: ?

    Size: 48” square

    Hook: 3.5 mm 

    Yarn: Stylecraft Special DK

    Notes: using stash yarn for this, substituted some colours I didn’t have.

    Blue Sky

    North Sea

    Mallard Blue

    Leaf = Cypress

    Mistletoe = Meadow

    Pistachio

    Mushy Peas = Lincoln

    Toy = Cream

    Camel

    Gingerbread

    Copper

    Claret

    Pink Rhubarb = Raspberry

    Cinder Rose = Grape

    Milky Tea = Pale Rose

  • 2025 - Blanket - Cats - Crochet

    2025-28 Flowerpress Blanket

    January 9, 2026 - By 

    My co-worker Erika bought a new house and moved into it over the Christmas holiday’s. I let her pick a pattern for a housewarming blanket, she really liked the first one I showed her which was the Flowerpress from Attic24. I had bought three of the kits when it was released in the fall of 2024 because I loved the colours, I knew I wanted to make a larger version because I’m not usually a fan of square blankets, and I’d want to make a 2nd blanket one day. I switched it from 4 x 4 squares to 4 x 6 squares. I had made an excel spreadsheet with the extra colours planned out, so that saved me a lot of work! My friend Cailin is about to get started on one as well and was planning on making it larger, so I shared my spreadsheet with her. All that extra project planning at the beginning really does come in handy sometimes!

    I was supervised by Miss Marple throughout the process.

    The yarn is really nice compared to other recycled fibres I’ve used. It’s 40% Wool, 30% Acrylic, and 30% Polyester, from plastic bottles. It feels a bit rough like cotton when you are working with it, but washes up like a pair of soft denim jeans.

    The first time I crocheted this blanket I tried to use the pattern join, but found it too tight, I switched it out to the continuous flat braid join from The Patchwork Heart UK. It’s a very pretty join, just using single crochet and chain stitches, see the notes below for my adjustments. It is more of a yarn eater though, so I had to buy one more ball of champagne to make this blanket. I still have enough yarn left that I can probably make a lap or baby blanket with it.

    Pattern: Flowerpress Blanket by Lucy of Attic24 

    Craft: crochet

    Made for: Erika’s housewarming gift

    Size: 48 x 69”

    Hook: 3.5 mm and 4 mm

    Yarn: Stylecraft ReCreate DK

    Colourway: Avocado, Blush, Champagne, Cherry, Dijon, Grape, Pistachio, Rose, Sky, Teal

    Notes from 2024 project:

    3.5 mm hook for squares. 4 mm hook for joining and first round of border. 

    Blanket is 4 x 4 squares. I made 4 x 6 squares. 

    Switched out pattern join for continuous flat braid join with, chain 2s and 3s instead of chain 3s and 5s. After joining round, slip stitch into corner space

    Next round: chain 1, (sc, ch 2, sc) into corner space. Sc in first stitch, hdc in missed sc of 2 rounds below (last round of square done in champagne.) continues across side. Where squares meet, hdc in corner loop 2 rounds below, sc in corner loop of last round, sc2tog over both corner loops, sc in corner loop of next square, hdc in corner loop of 2 rounds below. There will be 5 stitches across this joining area. In corners work sc, ch2, sc.

    181 stitches across short side on round 2 of border.

    273 stitches across long side on round 2 of border.

    Plus 4 corner stitches.

    Broke into second kit to work joining and border. Final yarn amounts used in grams:

    Avocado 132 – Blush 120 – Champagne 155 – Cherry 120 – Dijon 75 – Grape 105 – Pistachio 118 – Rose 114 – Sky 137 – Teal 75.

  • 2025 - Baby Blanket - Blanket - Crochet - Hat

    2025-26 & 27 Crochet Easy Elegant Baby Blanket / One Row Repeat, and Baby Maude Hat

    January 8, 2026 - By 

    When my friends have babies and grandbabies, they get blankets! I’ve watched Robin’s kids grow up in the neighbourhood, so when her son and his wife had their first baby this year, of course I made a blanket and a hat. The yarn is the same I knit my cousin’s granddaughters blanket set with earlier this year, but in the colour sage. It’s a really lovely yarn to work with, knit or crochet.

    I followed the pattern from a video on YouTube, the border turned out so lovely! It’s very elegant as the name suggests.

    Pattern: Crochet Easy Elegant Baby Blanket

    Size: 35” square

    Craft: crochet

    Made for: Robins granddaughter

    Hook: 4 mm, 4.5 mm, 5 mm & 5.5 mm

    Yarn: Stylecraft Bambino DK

    Colourway: Sage

    Notes: Chain 174 to start with 4 mm hook. Switch to 4.5 mm for blanket. After 6” switch to 5 mm because my tension tightened up.

    Width of blanket before border is 29”, crochet till 29” long. 

    27 Baby Maude Hat

    Pattern: Baby Maude Hat by Daisy Farm Crafts

    Size: 3-6 months

    Craft: crochet

    Made for: Robin Wheatleys granddaughter Natalia

    Hook: 4mm

    Yarn: Stylecraft Bambino DK

    Colourway: Sage

  • 2025 - Blanket - Crochet

    2025-23 Ripple Blanket Wedding Gift 

    January 8, 2026 - By 

    My son Rowan was in his friend’s wedding party in August, I offered to make a blanket as a wedding gift. Went with the classic ripple in many shades of blue and green, with some purples and white thrown in for contrast.

    Pattern: Neat Ripple by Attic24

    Made for: Rowan’s friend

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 48 x 66”

    Hook: 3.5mm

    Yarn: Stylecraft Special DK

    Notes: chain 212 for 15 pattern repeats

    I really struggled with weaving in ends, after doing it with the Attic24 instructions by doing it double stranded, I started a few rounds of a border. I realized I didn’t like the border colour I’d chosen, and the woven in ends were lumpy and unattractive. I pulled the border out. Then plucked out all the ends and wove them in single stranded, much happier, then also changed up the border idea.

    Border: followed instructions from Snufflebean Crochet on straightening up the end rows, then followed her ripple edging with first two rounds in Aster, then round 3 in Lapis with corners done as 2 hdc, ch 2, 2 hdc. No round 4.

    Colours used with amounts in grams:

    Aquamarine 69 – Aster 115 – Cloud Blue 69 – Empire 66 – Lapis 93 – Lavender 70 – Lobelia 65 – Periwinkle 65 – Plum 69 – Sage 69 – Sherbet 69 – Spearmint 66 – Tea Green 54 – Turquoise 64 -White 69 

  • 2025 - Baby Blanket - Blanket - Crochet

    2025-19 Overlay Mosaic Crochet Baby Blanket

    January 1, 2026 - By 

    I was looking for a pattern to make an impressive wedding gift blanket, I bought the Hide and Seek blanket by Beba Blanket, but thought I’d try out a free tutorial first. I’m glad I did, while I love the way they look, it’s an awful lot of single crochet. I might come back to it one day because I LOVE the look of the Hide and Seek Blanket with a gradient yarn. I cannot remember where I found this specific Greek Key pattern, but there are a lot of them out there on YouTube. I did use the tips and tricks, as well as the envelope border from Beba Blanket on YouTube though, she has really great videos!

    19 Overlay Mosaic Crochet Baby Blanket

    Pattern: Somewhere on YouTube?

    Made for: Donation

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 31 x 33”

    Hook: 4.5 and 5 mm

    Yarn: Loops & Threads Snuggly Wuggly Big!

    Colourway: Cool Baby 374 gm, Soft Yellow 211 gm

    Notes: practice piece to see if I was up for a full size version. Answer is no.

  • 2025 - Baby Blanket - Blanket - Knitting

    2025-18 Archie Baby Blanket

    January 1, 2026 - By 

    James asked for a baby gift for his friend whose son was born in August. I really liked the feel of this Caron Cotton Cake, it knit up really nicely, and feels very cozy. He won’t be seeing Merwin until February, so I hope they love it!

    18 Archie Baby Blanket 

    Pattern: Archie Baby Blanket – Free Knitting Pattern & Video Tutorial! – Snufflebean Yarn 

    Made for: James friend Merwins baby

    Craft: knit

    Size: 30 x 32”

    Needle: 4mm

    Yarn: Caron Cotton Cake

    Colourway: Beachwalk

    Notes: Cast on 151 sts. Used 1 ⅔ cakes of yarn.

  • 2025 - Baby Blanket - Blanket - Cardigan - Crochet - Garment - Hat - Knitting

    2025-12 & 13 Gifts for a New Baby in the Family

    August 29, 2025 - By 

    We have a new baby in the family! My cousins became grandparents to a beautiful baby girl named Maevan Jean on April 3rd, so of course I had to make something. I usually go with the standard baby blanket, but I fell in love with the knit Silver Fox Bonnet by Frogginette, then realized there was an adorable cardigan to match. I had ordered enough yarn to make a blanket anyway, so I decided to crochet a Classic Shell Stitch, the cardigan and bonnet only used 1 1/2 balls of the 6 that I ordered, so I had just enough.

    I love the braid effect of the cable pattern on the button band and shoulders of the cardigan, it’s the same cable stitch found in the front panels, it’s just done continuously.

    The yarn is Stylecraft Bambino DK from Wool Warehouse UK, it’s 100% acrylic, so easy care for new parents. The colour is Misty Mallow, which is in the purple family, it has a lovely vintage feel to it. It shows off the cables beautifully, and was very nice to work with. I have 6 balls of the Sage colourway as well, so it will pop up in a future project.

    12 Silverfox Cardigan and Bonnet

    Pattern: Silverfox Cardigan, Silverfox Bonnet by Frogginette

    Size: cardigan – 12 months/bonnet -child

    Craft: knitting

    Made for: cousin’s granddaughter Maevan 

    Needle: 3.5mm and 3 mm

    Yarn: Stylecraft Bambino DK

    Colourway: Misty Mallow

    Notes: cast on sleeves with German long tail

    Used 1 ½ balls (150 grams) for cardigan and bonnet.

    13 Classic Shell Stitch Baby Blanket 

    Pattern: Classic Shell Stitch Baby Blanket from Daisy Farm Crafts

    Size: 31 x 34”

    Craft: crochet

    Made for: cousin’s granddaughter Maevan

    Hook: 4mm

    Yarn: Stylecraft Bambino DK

    Colourway: Misty Mallow

  • 2025 - Blanket - Crochet

    2025-9 Teddy Bear Blankie

    July 15, 2025 - By 

    After finishing the baby blankets in my previous post, I had a bunch of 2 round granny squares left over. My niece asked if I could make her teddy bears a blankie with it, and she picked yellow as the joining colour. It was a quick, fun project, that I forgot to measure, but it’s just right for teddies Jack Jack and Nala 🥰

    9 Teddy Bear Blankie

    Pattern: 2 Round Solid Granny Square

    Craft: crochet

    Made for: Emily

    Hook: 4 mm

    Yarn: Scraps of DK/Sport weight yarn leftovers with yellow for joining.

    Notes: squares joined with single crochet through back loop. First round of border is also single crochet through back loop. Final round half double crochet.

  • 2025 - Baby Blanket - Blanket - Crochet

    2025-3 to 7 Little Dove Crochet Inspired Blankets

    June 13, 2025 - By 

    One of the crochet designers I follow is Faye from Little Dove Crochet, last October she posted in her blog about making four baby blankets all from the same colour combination, I really liked that idea. I have so much stash yarn for baby blankets I thought I’d give it a go. So I pulled my own colour combination together and managed five blankets! I added in an extra colour in the last couple blankets because I ran out of the green. All of these will be donated to Craft for YEG who you can find on Facebook. They are a local Edmonton, AB group who collect donations of many different items for a variety of local charities.

    Left to right, Harlequin Stitch, Growing Granny Square, Simple 5 Round Granny, 2 Round Solid Granny x 2

    3 – Harlequin Stitch Blanket

    Pattern: Harlequin Stitch by Daisy Farm Crafts

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 32 x 37″

    Hook: 4 mm

    Yarn: Loops & Threads Snuggly Wuggly – Candy Pink, Cotton Candy, Soft Lilac, White, Yellow

    Bernat Softee Baby – Fresh Green

    Notes: Starting chain 133. Work first row as skip 2 instead of skip 3. All chain 7 work as chain 5. All chain 4 as chain 3. Border is the Double Crochet Post Ribbing from Daisy Farm Crafts.

    4 – Simple Growing Granny Blanket

    Pattern: Simple Growing Granny

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 34 x 34″

    Hook: 4 mm

    Yarn:  Loops & Threads Snuggly Wuggly – Candy Pink, Cotton Candy, Soft Lilac, White, Yellow

    Bernat Softee Baby – Fresh Green

    Notes: Used about 33 grams of each colour, 185 grams of white. Border is one round sc in white, then shell stitch edging.

    5 – Simple 5 Round Granny Square Blanket

    Pattern: Simple 5 Round Granny Square

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 22 x 28″

    Hook: 4 mm, 4.5 mm for joining.

    Yarn: Loops & Threads Snuggly Wuggly – Candy Pink, Cotton Candy, Soft Lilac, White, Yellow, Dark Turquoise 

    Worked 20 squares to make 4×5 rectangle blanket. Used continuous join as you go as posted in Little Dove Crochet video. Shell stitch edging.

    6 – 2 Round Solid Granny Square Blanket

    Pattern: 2 Round Solid Granny Square

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 24 x 24″

    Hook: 4 mm

    Yarn: Scraps of DK/Sport weight yarn leftovers, with  Loops & Threads Snuggly Wuggly in white for joining. Used join as you go as above. Border was a few rounds of sc, then three rounds of granny stitch and two more rounds of sc.

    7 – Another 2 Round Solid Granny Square Blanket

    Pattern: 2 Round Solid Granny Square

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 22 x 26″

    Hook: 4 mm

    Yarn: Scraps of DK/Sport weight yarn leftovers with  cream for joining with join as you go as above. Border is a variation of the Attic24 Cozy Stripe Edging. I skipped round two, then worked round three into the spaces between dc clusters below.