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Designing a Blanket – Part two

https://rainbowjunkie.co.uk/2024/09/29/designing-a-blanket-part-two/

Published: September 29, 2024 21:50

Now the title could lead you to suppose that I was talking about designing blankets in general but in fact I am talking about the process of designing one particular blanket. When I have made striped blankets, except for my Spectrum blanket, they have been…

Knot Blanket – central part complete

https://rainbowjunkie.co.uk/2024/09/25/knot-blanket-central-part-complete/

Published: September 25, 2024 14:18

Just realised that I didn’t share any more of the blanket with you this week. Well I am happy to say that I have completed the central knot part and just have the edging and border to do.The knot does show so much more clearly with a cream background…

Designing a Blanket – Part one

https://rainbowjunkie.co.uk/2024/09/22/designing-a-blanket-part-one/

Published: September 22, 2024 21:19

Had a busy weekend and I didn’t think I had anything to share this week but then I decided to share this about designing a blanket. I know some people like to see my thought processes, so this is for them. I have to use squares for my Celtic Knot designs…

Garden Delights!

https://rainbowjunkie.co.uk/2024/09/15/garden-delights/

Published: September 15, 2024 21:00

This week is going to be mainly about the garden because craftwise I have only progressed a little with the blanket. Sunday was sunny and maybe not as cold as it has been lately, or am I just getting adjusted? I just had to go out and take my camera when I…

July Montage

https://rainbowjunkie.co.uk/2024/09/11/july-montage-5/

Published: September 11, 2024 06:52

Now finally the montage for July. During July, I was finally able to show you both sides of my Celtic cushion that used the methods of my Celtic blanket patterns to create a smaller cushion cover. I also showed you my first Cream Tea of the year, that I…

Blanket and a New Fence

https://rainbowjunkie.co.uk/2024/09/08/blanket-and-a-new-fence/

Published: September 8, 2024 20:48

Well it’s been quite a week and I am feeling the effects and being a little lower in energy than normal. My son-in-law, myself and my son took down my old fence and put up a new one. The timing all depended on my son-in-law as he was the one with the saw…

Blanket and Bookmarks

https://rainbowjunkie.co.uk/2024/09/01/blanket-and-bookmarks/

Published: September 1, 2024 20:40

Cross Bookmarks to be precise. First the blanket though. I haven’t got a lot further because of being busy with the bookmarks. When you last saw it And now. (Take under artificial light and adjusted because I didn’t think to do it soon enough but still not…

Monthly Montage – August

https://rainbowjunkie.co.uk/2024/08/31/monthly-montage-august-9/

Published: August 31, 2024 16:41

I think it speaks to the pressure I feel I have been under that I totally omitted to create a Monthly Montage post for July. I will remedy this when I find the time, as I hate the thought of having a gap on the Montage page. However I have just created…

A Blanket and some Apples

https://rainbowjunkie.co.uk/2024/08/26/a-blanket-and-some-apples/

Published: August 26, 2024 11:02

I seem to have got quite out of sync with my posts but here is the latest news. Having more recently been working on mosaic crochet, I am back to granny squares and reworking my Rainbow Knot Baby Blanket.After making my Celtic top.I realised that when…

Another Similar and Maybe Better Bag

https://rainbowjunkie.co.uk/2024/08/20/another-similar-and-maybe-better-bag/

Published: August 20, 2024 07:53

When I was practising for the Ravellenics, since I couldn’t start the bag I had planned to make and being nervous, as always, about whether it would be successful, I designed and made a different bag as practise. I made it as a present for my daughter. So…

Flowers in Monochrome

https://rainbowjunkie.co.uk/2024/08/14/flowers-in-monochrome/

Published: August 14, 2024 11:18

Seeing a question about whether people liked  photographing flowers in monochrome on Leanne Cole’s website. I realised that I had actually used a great number of photographs of flowers in monochrome when I had had the time to take part in “Monochrome…