My First Crochet Blanket finished!! :-)

My first crochet blanket finished (25 squares). A lot of love and time has gone into making this, and lots of remembering my Nanna Garland, who used to knit and crochet a lot of special things for me and her other grandchildren. I was initially making these crochet squares in order to make a bed blanket for myself. Then a friend at work who is a member of the Zonta women's club told me that her club was knitting baby blankets to give to refugee/migrant women in Adelaide with young babies.

I decided to make the crochet squares into a baby blanket for the Zonta club to give to a migrant or refugee woman in Adelaide. I know my blanket is far from perfect, but it is the first time I have crocheted anything, and I put a lot of love into it, it's actually quite hard to part with, and I really hope it makes the woman who receives it and her baby happy :-) and makes them feel more welcome in Australia.

My Nanna Blanket is finished at last! :-)

Since the weather has been stinking hot this weekend (39C Sat, 42C Sun and meant to be 39C again tomorrow) I have spent most of the weekend indoors trying to avoid the heat. So although I hate this kind of heat, it does have benefits as I could do some craft without feeling like I should be up and doing something else! So I finally finished the last square of my Nanna blanket, and stitched all the rows together and wove in the loose ends :-) I'm very happy with it even though it's way to hot to use it at the moment apart from taking a quick photo!



I also finally decided to unravel my 'woodland' jelly roll of quilt fabric (see pic). I'm thinking of making my first quilt as a practise run, and if that is successful then I will plan to make a king sized quilt using different colours for the new bed that my partner and I have just ordered. I've got a great book "Jelly Roll Quilts" by Pam & Nicky Lintott, and I'm thinking of trying the 'bars of gold' quilt first.