Crocheting, the best way to spend a Sunday

I've recently become a hooker, now that's got your attention, by hooker I mean a crocheter.  I always wanted to be able to crochet beautiful things, I have managed to teach my Mum how to crochet at age 75, she's back knitting again but is going back to crocheting soon.  I literally haven't picked my hook down since the beginning of December.  I've always been a knitter and love and stash away yarn (as with all my other crafts, my little cottage I share with Mum, two Cairn Terriers, two cats, two guinea pigs and a tortoise) is fit to bursting, but Mum and I wouldn't have it any other way.  I love to indulge in crafting, its the only thing that keeps me sane.

As you know I make cards, cross stitch, knit, make jewellery and grow my own vegetables and flowers for the garden.  Never one to be lazy.

Mum and I live in a small Essex village called Stapleford Abbotts in an over 100 year old terraced cottage with a huge garden.  I learnt to knit when I was 11, tapestry soon came along after that.  I always wanted to make those pretty granny square blankets.

Anyway, I learnt to crochet a few years ago and made a granny square blanket and a baby shawl and then decided I couldn't get my head around crocheting and put my hook down.

The past two years have been rather trying, and stressful Mum was diagnosed with a malignant kidney tumour that thankfully is remaining stable then in the summer she fell in the garden and badly broke her femur and is now on crutches and has poor mobility as a result.  She decided that she wanted to learn to crochet so had an afternoon's lesson from my Aunt and the rest is history.  She made this beautiful blanket all using oddments of Sirdar Snuggly that we had laying around at home.

I then discovered Lucy from Attic 24 and now have all the squares for a beautiful Harmony Blanket made, just have to join them, and a Granny Stripe Blanket kit sitting in my stash waiting to be started.

In the meantime I've been practicing straight edges and different stitches and made a couple of baby blankets.

I've been a Sirdar fan for many years, but have recently discovered the quality of Stylecraft Special DK which I love, it crochets beautifully.  I have also used King Cole Candystripe and James C Brett Baby Marble all in double knitting and they all work beautifully.

My favourite places to order wool from are Woolwarehouse, Black Sheep and Knitwell.  They are all fantastic companies,  Nothing better than getting a delivery of yarn is there?

I would by no means class myself as an expert, I'm more of a beginner really, just mastering my skills.

Enjoy your Sunday.  Below are some of the crochet projects that Mum and I have been working on.  Happy Hooking xxx

Some of the beautiful Harmony Blanket squares waiting for me to finish off joining them.  Thank you to Lucy Attic 24 and Stylecraft for producing such fantastic yarn.

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This is Mum's first completed blanket using Sirdar Snuggly.

This is a baby blanket using King Cole Candy Stripe.

And this my first C2C using James C Brett Baby Marble - perfect for using this type of yarn.