Crochet baby blanket patterns

New Primavera flower granny square

04/10/2015 by Dada Filed Under: Free crochet patterns 19 Comments

Do you remember my Primavera flower granny square? To remind you, I made a free step-by-step tutorial for that square, which you can still find here.

New primavera granny square free pattern

Now, I’m using the same square (just a little adapted) for my new project.

It’s supposed to be a poncho. I said supposed to be, because I’m not sure how it will turn out in the end. I did actually made a poncho before, and that was a really huge project for me at the time, especially considering how much inexperienced I was then. I have only been crocheted for a year and a half, and had never made a poncho before. But, it turned out surprisingly well. You can check it out here.

This time I chose completely different colors. Autumn colors. I noticed how my work changes, how I now gravitate towards darker, earthy colors and whole-colored stuff. And it’s totally OK with me. I allow myself to change. And to grow with every change. I think it’s essential for any progress.

Popcorn crochet granny square free pattern

This square. Pure love. I found it at this gorgeous online place, and instantly fell in love with it, as well as with beautiful by Haafner blog. It’s one of the most beautiful crochet places on the internet, and if you haven’t visited it yet, please do, you will be delighted, as I am every time when something new is published.
I just glanced over this post. Autumn has definitely arrived here.

Flowers + Lace = Scarf

25/09/2015 by Dada Filed Under: Scarves and shawls 18 Comments

For a long time, I had a picture of a flowery, airy, translucent scarf in my mind, so last month when I bought some pastel yarn, I sat down and started to play with the yarn… this is what came out of it.

This time, I didn’t use “Tango” yarn, instead I used 100% cotton yarn “Golf”, also from St. George – 125m/50g “Golf” yarn is a bit difficult to work with, because it has a tendency to split, but I really love Golf’s color palette, even better than Tango’s.Now, I can’t wait for autumn to arrive!

As soon as I finish tutorial for Victorian flower baby blanket, I will start to write tutorial for this scarf. Hope it will be finished sometime in October. Or November. Or December… Who knows… I’ve already have 2 new projects on my hook, and a couple of new ones in my head, so…

Victorian flower baby blanket

17/09/2015 by Dada Filed Under: Crochet baby blanket patterns 18 Comments

I always find it difficult to write a post. Partly because I’m not very good with words, and partly because English (obviously) isn’t my native language. I just hope that you have a clue what I’m talking about in my posts.

Flowery granny square baby blanket pattern

This blanket is made of 100% cotton yarn “Tango” and “Golf” from St. George. So many times so many of you asked me where can you buy “Tango” yarn, and I always have the same disappointing answer that St. George (manufacturer from Serbia) don’t sell online and if you don’t live in Serbia or in several neighboring countries you can’t possibly purchase that yarn. But recently, I bought at their shop several skeins of cotton salmon pink yarn, and to my surprise on the label was written “Piazza” Fisher-wolle, but they looked exactly like “Tango”. I went to their website and found that same yarn. So, I guess that maybe St. George manufacture some of the cotton yarn for Fischer Wolle. It’s a German website, and I’m not sure if they send abroad, but maybe this information would be useful to some of my German followers.

Flowery granny square blanket pattern and step by step photo tutorial

What else can I say about the blanket? It measures approximately 80 x 80 cm (31.5″ x 31.5″) and has a white, lacy border which I really like.

I joined the squares with single crochet, and for that purpose I used a yarn with metallic threads in it, which looks really nice.

Yesterday, I took the last pictures for the tutorial I’m currently writing, so I hope that the pattern will be completed by the end of the month.

Update: The Victorian flower blanket pdf pattern & step-by-step tutorial is now available in Dada’s place shop (payment options: Credit cards & PayPal).

You can also buy it in my Ravelry shop and in my Etsy shop. (payment option: PayPal)

The cushions under Victorian flower blanket are Japanese flower cushions which I wrote about in this post.

And this is my finished flowery lacy scarf. I will write more about this project in my next post.

Click here to get the Victorian Flower Blanket pattern.