Sarah Appleton - Textile Artist Blog

If you are wondering why there was a 3ish month hiatus on the blog... forget about that and look at this: I have completed 5 more squares for the throw! Hot dawg! On the left and right hand sides we have two more granny squares, the left one probably being my favourite colour scheme so far. I think that one came out so awesome because I was watching Die Hard With A Vengeance when I hooked the turquoise layers. All the granny squares seem to pull in at the edges, but they do this in the magazine pictures too so I guess it can't be all bad. I think this is a side effect of crocheting in the round. On the top is another treble square with diamond cross-stitch pattern, purple this time! The bottommost square is a half treble square with 'aztec' style (their term, not mine; mine is 'messed up S') cross-stitch pattern. This was a lot of fun to make and super quick... if not a little confusing for my simple mind. It turned out rad though, so that's all I ca...

I finally got round to finishing four more squares for the blanket, clockwise from top left they are: half treble crochet square with star motif, classic granny square, half treble square with star motif again and some openwork mesh thingy square that looks like it has worms (it does not). I am super happy with how they turned out... the granny square is my favourite and the mesh patterned one a close second (it didn't photograph very well though). The hooking continues... These squares were made using the power of: Gok's Fashion Fix, Supernanny, Pinapple Dance Studio, Wife Swap U.S.A. and Jennifer's Body.

I subscribed to the 'Art of Crochet' magazine a few months ago and the issues have been arriving Vin Diesel style (Fast and Furious). As a total and utter beginner I was confused by the pictures in the magazine, which didn't always seem to match my samples. I tried searching online to see if anyone else was experiencing the same problem but couldn't find anything. I then ended up even more confused by Googling the terms because after much research I found that there is a difference between American and British terms for the same stitch... probably seems dumb to the veteran crocheter, but no one explained it to me! Eventually I found this chart which helped a lot. Anyway... it's taken me a while to get the confidence together to end the practice runs and start an actual bonefide project - but I've finally cracked it! These are the beginnings of a patchwork granny vintage style blanket, I did the squares in this order: On the left is the 'Redcurrant'...