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snapdragon seafarer

Retrospectively REWRITTEN DUE TO TECHNICAL Difficulties in 2026... She* asked me for a blanket in "Missoni Style" (it's what she calls my work; it's what my crochet work reminds her of) in “the colours of the sea,” because "she feels calm looking at those colours". I understood this as the meaning of the nervous system regulating sea properties, the one that whooshes in long exhalations and pulls you back into yourself. The sea that steadies your breath without asking anything in return. The sea that she and I both know as adults, we know, and we seek when in need. The sea, which my nanny, for all her wisdom and care, never had…

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August 1, 2022
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venerable valkyrie

In the beginning there was yarn... Let me elaborate on that: In the beginning (of any one of my crochet endeavours) there is yarn. Yarn that consequently leads to colours. Colours that furthermore lead to ideas. Ideas that eventually lead to finished crochet creations. As above, today's post started with a gift. In particular, Christmas Holidays 2019. You know, before we knew about disease control measures we have all had to find out about and integrate into our lives since... That Christmas, we visited my family. It is true, my mum have always been an avid knitter. A creative person. Incidentally, our whole family is. However, for some time, she has not been…

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April 1, 2022
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rainbow reverie

Welcome to the world a new baby! When i make blanket for babies, i like to use rainbow colours. Baby crochet blankets are smaller and take less time than my giant crochet thinking projects. Baby blankets are finished quicker, and usually way way before the babies are due, just in case.... Spy my BLANKET page HERE to admire them on the bottom of the page in their own dedicated picture gallery, and if you have been gifted one of my baby blankets, see if you can spot yours amongst the others.*

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April 1, 2021
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quintessential questioning

I have finished MOHAIR QUEEN, before New Year’s Eve 2020, and as much as i have wanted to start learning a new brioche hat technique, i wasn’t quite ready for that. What i was ready for, was more of completing a whole, finishing and old crochet WIP (work in progress) project. The cotton squares (mentioned before HERE and HERE) blanket was about to get finished, all together with working out my dense centre granny square into a favourable configuration of granny square and popcorn stitch... Pattern for this singular square, can be found in my Ravelry Pattern Shop HERE. As you may have noticed from the date of the two above referenced blog…

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February 27, 2021
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gaseous giant

Retrospectively REWRITTEN DUE TO TECHNICAL Difficulties in 2026... Some blankets begin as ideas. Others begin as feelings. Gaseous Giant began as a room: the one Rose McGowan used at the Edinburgh Festival that year, washed in deep blues, warm oranges, and that quiet sense of outer‑space vastness. I remember sitting there, noticing how the colours held the air, how they made the space feel both expansive and safe. Something in me recognised that palette instantly. Sci‑fi skies. Nebula edges. The kind of colours I’ve always gravitated toward without needing to explain why. When I got home, I reached for leftover yarns and started with a simple square. Nothing ambitious. Just a way to…

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June 4, 2020
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daisy doodle

dear diary – dandelion drumbeat Today’s story is from the past.  The rainbow blanket that I want to introduce today was made at the start of the year.  It was January and there were hardly any countries on lock down yet.  It seems so long ago and so much had changed since then. Still, I want to show it off, because it deserves its dedicated space and it's story of origin.  I could not write about it any earlier for a few reasons. It was a present for my beautiful niece, who was about to be born any time then, so i needed to finish the blanket when i did... As it turned…

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April 9, 2020