Seat Pad

First I must say that the colour of these photos is wrong.  In real life it is are much more orange.  I actually prefer the more pink version.  There must be something on my camera that needs adjusting - too much technology. 

This is my first seat pad.  I'm going to make 3 more.  When I showed Amelia she said 'is that so the cats will be more comfortable!'  Well no, it's so I'll be more comfortable. 

This is quite an extravagant pattern, mainly because I have lots of yarn that I bought on sale.  I have used 3 strands of double knit throughout.  Its a  wool/mohair/soy mix. It also has a backing that is double knit (worsted weight) acrylic.  My favourite part is the bobbles on the backing come through the gaps on the fringing on the front. I didn't plan that but it seemed like a fun thing to do. 

Blossom Blanket.

For a long time I’ve wanted something – anything – with pink blossom on a blue background. There is just something about that image that I just love.

When I started out making the blanket I didn’t have much of a plan except to use the blue wool I had made into my lovely centre pull balls. It’s just a simple double crochet square. As I crocheted I thought how boring it was, so to keep myself interested I thought of what else I could do with it.. And so began the blossom blanket.

The branches are rows of one double crochet with a single chain for turning and every now and again I increased it to two double crochet and back down to one again to give it a bit of texture.

The blossoms are 10 single crochet into a circle then 2 chain and a 3 double crochet cluster into the first stitch, 2 ch and a slip stitch into the next stitch, first petal then repeat that 4 more times and you have a 5 petal flower. I stitched them on with the back side to the front so the petals are like little puffs.  I'm also thinking I might embroider some darker pink centres into the flowers and possibily even add more flowers.