Stash Busting: Finished Blanket !

Hello all !!

How are you all doing ?

I'm happy to finally have finished my daughter's blanket, which I started back in . . . October.
October ?? Yes. It took me about 10 months to finish it.

I have enjoyed making it so much, all the colour changing, the yarn I have used is so nice to work with.
It is 50% Acrylic 50% wool and the colours. . . I love the colours, so cheerful !! Well, I think so.

And what I love about it all is that I still have yarn left so I will be thinking of making something with it.

For the border of this blanket I tried several options, I undid some rounds, etc and in the end I went for this simple border as I thought there is already a lot going on in the blanket so for much that I love lacy borders it did not look right on this one, too busy !

Border is number 81 of Around the Corner, Crochet Borders by Edie Eckman.

And I was able to fix that little 'problem' I mentioned in my last post, and actually it turned out straight forward to fix and easy. The yarn in the centre round had got loose and so I pull it and knotted it back and secured it well.

And now I leave you with some pictures from the main square (Plaza de Cervantes) of the town where I live, Alcala de Henares. I love this place and the old centre of the town is World Heritage Town by UNESCO and the birthplace of Cervantes.

Have a lovely week !!

xEva 

Edge / Border - Round 3

Hello !

Today I had a bad day at work, everything seemed to go against me and everything coming back at the same time and wrong timing. . . but....tomorrow will be a new day and is bank holiday here in Spain ! Wo-hoo !!

So, this is how my border is coming along. . .

I undid what I had done here and started again, well not completely but I added an extra row of single crochet in the very pale pink all around the blanket (before I had only 1 row)

This is how is looking now. . .




But then I noticed this . . . .

Aaarrghh !!!

I should have definitely stayed in bed today . . .

How on earth did that happened ?? And how will I fix this ?? - I don't know

Hope you are all having a great day !!

xEva

On the edge . . .

Hello all,

Remember this blanket that I was making for my daughter ? I started it back in October and I have decided to finish it, and I say decided as that is exactly what I did.
I had two choices: go on forever to make a single bed size blanket or stop now and make it a lap-blanket or end of bed blanket. So I chose the second option.

I just need to move on, I love this blanket and how is coming along but I just want to finish other projects and then move on to something else, NEW.

So after a lot of thinking, looking through the Around the corner, Crochet Borders by Edie Eckman
I have finally chosen the borders I will add and at the moment it looks as I will be using a couple or 3 of them. . . we will see. . . at the moment is testing time.

On the second round I have realised that my first pale pink round cannot be seen, so I have undone everything and will be starting from round 1 and adding another of the pale pink. . .

I will show you the end results very soon I hope. . . and I love doing the edging. . . after all that color chaning, cutting, ends weaving. .... the edging is sooo straight forward. And I mean SO straight forward and so much quicker.

Before I talk too soon we will see how it works out in the end.

Have a nice week !!!

Increasing my yarn stash . . . and a decision about my blog

Hello all !

I have been shopping . . . just a little bit.

Back in July I saw a few projects made with Paris yarn by DropsGarn Studio and I could not get it out of my mind.

When I went to check the colors I saw it was on sale during July only and so as I had to go to town, I checked for a store that stocked Paris yarn and found one.

I already had in mind to make another blanket for my son and daughter.

I wrote down the colors I wanted and set off to buy them.

In that store they did not have all the colours for my daughter's blanket and so I got these ones:

 Only these will go to my daughter's blanket, along with the pinks they did not have in stock:

And the rest will go to my son's blanket.
I bought each skein (50 grs) at 1.30 euros each (normal prices is 2.00 euros each).
When I came back from France I thought as the offer lasted until 31st July, I should buy as many as possible and then the rest I will buy them at normal price in September when they re-stock.

And so I got this pack yesterday by courier from an online store in Spain:

and in total I have all this yarn: 

 The left half is for my daughter's blanket:

 And here I am missing color number 20

Which they did not have in any of the stores. . . and I now don't know if I will not use it in the end and I use the colors I have or wait until September and see if I do get it in the end. . . hummm,  cannot decide. . .

And the right half of the lot are for my son's blanket: 

Again, here I'm missing a turquoise blue, number 02:

And . . . again cannot decide whether to leave it or wait until I get it. . . 

What do you think ? Should I wait for both and add them ?

I dont think I got enough yarn in the end. . . I never seem to know how much I will need. 

Do you ?

The other thing I cannot decide is on the pattern. 

I have been looking in Pinterest for inspiration and I'm torn between and African flower afgan or sunburst square or just simple squares in different colors. 

How do you see these colors used in a blanket ? Any ideas ? suggestions ?

The decision I have finally taken is that I will from now on write the blog only in English. I'm sorry as my mother will be the first one not being able to read it  but I really, really cannot do it in 2 languages anymore, something has to go. . . 

I truly hope my Spanish readers can understand. . . 

And last. . . I also bought this from the Madrid Cath Kidston store, during the sales. 

The 2 boxes were 10 euros (for both) and the measuring tape (which I did not need. . . ) was 3.80 euros, not bad . . .

HAVE A LOVELY WEEKEND !

xEva 

Stash-Busting Update and Spring in our home

Hello !!

Hola !!

How is your week going ?

Como va vuestra semana ?

It's been so hot this week in Madrid it's not funny ! I know it is nice for most of you, but I would much prefer a smoother entry into the summer as in Madrid summer can be long and really, really hot !! (specially for someone that does not like heat like me) 

Aqui en Madrid esta haciendo mucho calor y la verdad es que yo prefiero que hubiera una entrada mas suave al verano, que luego en Madrid es bastante duro (sobre todo para alguien a quien no le gusta el calor como a mi)

I have been up to a lot lately but unfortunately not much crafting. A lot of work (real life) in the office and well last night just because my connection to the work server was not working I had to stop working and make a little stash-busting, just made 1 square last night  as it was already very late. 

He estado muy ocupada las 3 ultimas semanas pero desafortunadamente no ha sido haciendo ganchillo ni cosiendo. Tengo un periodo de mucho trabajo y bueno anoche como no me podía conectar al servidor del trabajo tuve que parar de trabajar y me puse a hacer un cuadradito de ganchillo para la manta de arriba. 

Also I had to travel to Lisbon for work and I met a friendly Portuguese blogger,  we are preparing a post about that special meeting so stay tuned!

También he estado en Lisboa por trabajo y allí conocí a una bloguera  Portuguesa muy simpática, estamos preparando una noticia sobre este encuentro especial así que seguir conectadas !

I showed you this blanket before but now Im up to 158 squares finished 21 of those are flowers.

Os enseñe esta manta aquí, pero ahora he avanzado un poquito mas y voy por 158 cuadrados de los cuales 21 son flores.  

I still have not finished the blanket and I'm running out of the cream yarn (again. . . I already bought extra yarn for this project 3 times !)

Aun no esta terminada y me queda muy poquita lana beige (de nuevo . . . ya he tenido que ir a compra lana para esta manta 3 veces !) 

Anyway I'm loving this project and how is looking but it seems far from finished, not sure. . . maybe it will be a lap-blanket instead of a full blanket in the end. . . we will see. . . 

La verdad es que me esta encantando hacer esta manta y como esta quedando (sobre todo cuando la veo de lejos y los colores se funden) pero esta lejos de estar terminada, no se , igual se queda en manita en lugar de manta . . . ya veremos . . .

The tulips I planted back in October, when I still did not have a blog are now blossoming . . . so that is the sign that spring has finally arrived into my household . . . 

Los tulipanes que plante en Octubre, cuando aun  no tenia un blog, acaban de florecer . . . eso es señal de que la primavera ha llegado finalmente a nuestro hogar . . .

And more of the blanket . . . .
Y mas fotos de la manta . . .

Have a lovely week !!
Que tengáis una buena semana !!