Wedding blanket - Bryllupsteppe

      I haust var det bryllup i familien. Invitasjonen kom i august, så det var ikkje så mykje tid til å planlegge gåve. Eg gjekk laust på garnlageret og hekla romber/diamantar som i dette teppet. Denne gongen orka eg ikkje så mykje tenking, så det vart same holmønster på alle. 

I staden prøvde eg meg på ein vri når det gjaldt plassering av fargane - med overgong frå mørkt til lyst. 

Kvit kant rundt diamantane og samanhekling vart gjort i same slengen. 

Det tok heldigvis ikkje så lang tid, berre nokre kveldar :)

My brother got married in November. The invitation came in August so I didn't have much time to plan a wedding gift.

I decided to go for a blanket with diamonds like this. 

But this time I made the same lace pattern on all the diamonds.

Instead I went for a different approach for placing the colours.

I tried to go from darker to lighter colours in a diagonal across the blanket.

I went for a white border on the diamonds an did the continuos join-as-you-go.

(There really is no other way for me to finish blankets.)

And then a simple scallop border around it all.

The blanket was finished well before the wedding.

Harry Potter blanket

This spring it was my nephew's turn to get a blanket.
He was very into the HP books when he was younger. (He may have branched into gaming the last few years).
But his mother and I thought that a Harry Potter themed blanket could be a good fit.

I found the pattern for a HP c2c blanket here at Yarn Geek Makes (formerly Two Hearts Crochet).

I had never tried c2c before, but the first square (the snitch) worked up so quickly so I decided to go for it. I used dc in my squares, not hdc as in the pattern.

The biggest problem in making this blanket was deciding wich squares to use...
Yarn Geek Makes has graphs for more than twenty squares and a quick google/pinterest search gives you lots of other alternatives.



...and of course keeping track of all the different yarn ends. Lots of colour changes in some of the squares. I tried to carry the yarn along on the back when I could, to keep the amount of yarn ends to a minimum. There still was a lot of end so weave in at the end...

The blanket ended up quite big - 140 x 178 cm, and quite heavy,  2,2 kg... c2c eats yarn...
I used dk wool and a 4,5 mm hook.
But I'm so happy with the result - and a little part of me wanted to keep this...

Rustic Lace Square

I've been wanting to try the rustic lace square pattern for a while, and decided to make a blanket for my brother's wedding in June. 

Since I had just finished a Flowers-in-the-snow blanket I needed a little variation and wanted to try a new pattern. And I liked that the lace squares are a little bigger. I had also made many of the inner cicrcles allready.

I finished just in time...

Hello again!

Ohh... 2018 was not good for blogging. But I'm still here.

Last year was a busy one for making blankets. 3 flew of my crochet hook in May, June and September. I did plan ahead this time, and had done some work a while before. 

But I still have to make most the weeks before the ocation they are made for.

I made Flowers in the snow-blankets for two of my nieces, and a Rustic Lace Square blanket for my brother's wedding.

(I'll show you the Rustic Lace Square blanket in a different post.)

I can make the Flowers in the Snow blanket pretty much on autopilot by now, using the continuous join as you go method. 

I'm still planning to make a tutorial for that, just need to take good photos - or maybe make a video...

Enjoy the photos of these two blankets and my lovely nieces.

Beetles, bugs and butterflies

The crochet designer Lalylala has made a beautiful book with patterns for beetles, bugs and butterflies. I just had to order the book when it came out in October.

I have made several of Lalylala's dolls before. Let me just remind you a little bit:

Fibi the Fox

Mici the Mermaid

Lupo the Lamb

Kira the Kangaroo

This time I started with butterflies. First an Ulysses Butterfly for my nephew (sorry for the bad photos).

And now in January a Peacock Butterfly for my niece.

 Lovely patterns, and very clear. Now you can buy kits for the different patterns in her shop too.

Ingunn sitt teppe

I mai var det konfirmasjon for ei ny niese. Så då heldt eg fram med tradisjonen å gi vekk eit teppe.

Konfirmanten fekk komme med ønsker om farge og form. Valet blei eit nytt harlekinteppe med fargane litt meir systematisk fordelt (i striper).

This is my latest blanket, made for my niece in May. She got to choose pattern and colours.

For å lage ein variasjon på teppet, og for å få det litt meir luftig, valde eg å lage forskjellige holmønster på "diamantane" denne gongen.

I wanted to do a variation on my Harlequin blanket, and decided to some sort of lace pattern in the diamonds.

Holmønstra blei til etterkvart som eg hekla. Eg fann etterkvart nokre favorittar. 

Planen var å skrive/teikne ned nokre av holmønstra, men det ser eg vert litt mykje jobb... 

så det har eg ikkje fått tid til så langt. 

Men eg legg ut ein god del bilder her, så kan de som vil finne ut litt av mønstra sjølv. 

Hola er stort sett laga av å hoppe over ei eller to masker og hekle ei eller to luftmasker i staden.

The lace patterns was made up as I crocheted. I soon got a few favourites. The holes are mostly made by skipping one or two stitches and making one or two chain st instead. 

I had planned to write down some of the patterns but have not had the time to do it. 

There's quite a few patterns so it would take a lot of time... But if you want to make them you should be able to figure the pattern out by looking at the photos. So I give you lots of photos :)

Eg skulle berre henge opp teppet for fotografering framfor vindauget, og oppdaga då at det vart ei ganske kul gardin når lyset skein igjennom...

The blanket could also be a nice curtain, as I discovered when I hung it up to take a photo...

Eg har brukt mine vanlege garnfavorittar når det gjeld teppehekling: Karisma, Smart, Falk og nokre få andre. Gjekk på jakt etter rosa/lilla nyansar denne gongen.

Eg brukte også ein annan  samanheklingsmetode denne gongen. Ikkje diagonalt stripevis slik som i den første harlekinteppe-oppskrifta mi. Denne gongen hekla eg dei vassrette stripene saman etterkvart. Mykje lettare å handtere. 

Det kjem eit innlegg seinare med forklaring på den metoden.

I used another way to crochet the diamonds together this time. 

Join-as-you-go across, not in diagonal stripes as in my first halequin pattern.

I will make another post showing you this method.

Borda rundt har eg henta frå ei bok:

Around the Corner Crochet Borders av Edie Eckman.

The border is #30 from Around the Corner Crochet Borders by Edie Eckman.