A super quick blanket and a Giveaway !

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This week I have been on a bit of mission as last weekend I decided to make a blanket

for a friends Birthday present.

I ordered the wool on Sunday evening and it arrived on Wednesday.

 

 

All good so far ... the bit that makes it a bit of a mission ?

My friends Birthday is THIS Wednesday, yes, that will be the day after tomorrow !

 

Fortunately, as you can see in the photo above I had very sneakily put a 6mm hook in my

 bag the day the wool was due to arrive so no sooner had the Postman delivered it,

than it was being merrily hooked into a starting chain.

And since then it has been a 'pick up and do a bit project' whenever there has been a

couple of minutes.

 

The wool I am using is Stylecraft Special Chunky and I cannot tell you how

pleasingly quickly it grows....

 

... from taking five in the office...

 

 

... to a quick sit down and cup of tea in the garden ...

 

 

... to a little bit more before bed ...

 

 

... to a lovely morning of happy HTR'ing  in the sun over the weekend.

 

 

And I can happily report that as at yesterday lunchtime the blanket was looking like this !

 

 

Whoo-hoo , I'm on the home run !

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Just two more balls to go for the main bit of the blanket,

two balls to make a DC border around the edge and then I am going to finish it off with a small ruffled edge made with the same coloured wool but in a DK rather than the chunky.

 

 So, from starting with a chain of 141 , 18 balls of Stylecarft Chunky in Parchment and 2 balls of Stylecraft DK in Parchment I reckon I'm pretty much on track for the Wednesday deadline.

It absolutely has to go down as the quickest blanket I have ever made.
( Note to Claire ... if you are reading this please remember to look really, really surprised when you get your pressie on Wednesday, Ok ! )

 

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There was even time for a family Birthday Celebration this weekend as well.

 

 

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Talking of Birthdays, I mentioned in my last post that it is very nearly my first Bloggy Birthday 

and having received so much pleasure from recently winning a Giveaway from

Jules at Little Woollie I have been busy planning a Giveaway of my own.

 

Its been so much fun deciding what to include ...

and I can now reveal all !

 

I probably should say at this point that I may have got a little carried away as I started by putting together a little crochet package and then I thought,

Hey, what if you're a knitter not a crocheter,

so I have TWO Giveaways ... YAY !

 

So the Crochet Giveaway is this...

 

 

and the Knitting Giveaway  is this ...

( this is sooo much fun ! )

 

 

The very observant of you will notice that they are basically the same but with one very

small and subtle difference ...

one has a crochet hook, one has stitch markers.

Just because I am really enjoying this I am now going to run you through a little breakdown

 of what will be in each package.

 

There will be a little pile of three  handmade cloths,

made in the beautifully soft King Cole Bamboo.

 

 

There will be a beautiful pink spotty tea cup and saucer

and just to ensure the perfect cup of tea three TeaPig

 T-bags will be popped inside the cup.

 

 

There will be a bookmark to mark your place in those crochet or knitting pattern books,

and a couple of cute badges for all you knitters and crocheters out there.

 

And to finish off there will be 3 balls of Rowan Pure Wool 4 ply in my favourite colour of

grey, with either a pink 4.5 mm Tulip Etimo Crochet hook,

 



 

 or 5 of the sweetest stitch markers.

 

 

 So, there you have it,

what's not to love ?

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And all you have to do to enter is leave me a little comment either here on my Blog

 or here on my Facebook page, or both !

 

Absolutely anybody can enter, I will happily post anywhere in the world.

 

  If you haven't left a comment before please DON'T BE SHY ...

one of my reasons for doing this Giveaway is to meet lots more of you and discover

 more lovely blogs to visit.

 

The two winners will be picked on my Bloggy Birthday on 24th June.

 

 

 

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