Crochet Madness

Excuse the pun but I am officially and utterly HOOKed ...

I never thought that I would take to crocheting as much as I did, seeing that my first love always used to be knitting.

My buddy {{Trace}} actually started me off subconsciously, with her {{creative space}} and {{folksy friday}} postings. There were so many crochet projects to be seen that I thought "hey I can do that, surely!??!"

So, as you know, I bought myself the {{200 Crochet Blocks}} book from Amazon and started to teach myself how to crochet other than just creating a chain. It took some temper tantrums, hooks being thrown across the room in frustrations and outcries of "I give up" until I finally mastered the humble {{Granny Square}} and since then there was no stopping me.

Yesterday afternoon I took a shot of the blanket I have been working on, which is now completely finished with edging and all but I have to iron it first before I can share it in all its purple-ish beauty.

Until then, here is a snippet

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The square pattern are made up from two different blocks out of the above mentioned book, the Granny Square was taken from 

Block 7 - Granny In The Middle

 and the edging from 

Block 117 - Granny In The Middle. 

The aubergine edging on all squares was something I made up as I went along, just using treble stitches, and the final eggshell edging was also something I just crocheted-as-I-go.

From the left over yarn I started to fiddle about with different blocks from the above book - just to see if I can do all the intricate designs and here are the ones I did so far

Block 17 - Waterlilly

Block 189 - Willow

Block 209 - Marigold