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Off the Hook: The Festival Fever Blanket.

Posted on by Jackie B

Although the Stitches by the Sea blog has evolved quite a bit since it began, these days it has two main strands: my crafty makes and classes and also the gigs I go to and review. This is one of those rare posts that involves both!

My most recent make was the Festival Fever Blanket: a crochet-a-long project from Eleanora Tully of Coastal Crochet. Eleanora’s blankets are amazing – extremely imaginative and colourful, Her patterns are well-written and there are video tutorials available to help with the complicated bits. There’s so much detail that you never get bored.

Fitting in with the festival theme, the design includes tents…

…bunting…

…and even musical notes….

…all finished off with a funky bobble edging.

It was great fun to make and I absolutely love it.

Of course I had to take it to a music festival, so it came with me to Darlington last month for the Rewind 80’s Festival (read about the music here and other aspects of the event here)

My lovely friend Angela came with me – here she is modelling the blanket. That’s The Farm on stage in the background.

I wonder which festivals that blanket will visit next summer?

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Knit and Natter Update: Yvonne’s Baby Blanket – Our First Knit-A-Long

Posted on by Jackie B

Our little Online Knit and Natter Group still meets every week on Zoom for a chat and to look at what we are all busy making.

Recently some of us were inspired to put down the knitting needles, pick up a crochet hook and make the Seaside Stash-Busting Blanket on the Coastal Crochet Blog.

We’ve all thoroughly enjoyed making this (with some of us up to our third blanket and trying out more of Eleonora’s designs) The pattern was originally released as a Crochet Along project and the anticipation of looking up each new instalment was great fun.

I loved the challenge of learning some new stitches too. I think the basket stitch and bobbles were my favourites.

We were discussing our blankets at Knit and Natter a little while ago and thought it would be good to do our own Knit Along (KAL). Yvonne has risen to the challenge and produced a pattern for a baby blanket, which she is releasing in weekly instalments over the coming weeks.

Yvonne writes, “Here it is. Welcome to the Mystery Knit and Natter Knit Along Blanket.It is knitted in any dk wool with 4mm needles.
It can be done in a solid colour or you can add different colours as we go and you will need approximately 160g to complete the project.Happy knitting guys!”

Week 1

Cast on 141 stitches and work 10 rows in garter stitch (knit every row).

I’ll post the next bit next weekend. Meanwhile here’s my completed Week 1 knitting.

Please join in and let me know how you get on…feel free to send photos too. Enjoy!