Planting Bulbs and Crocheting a Baby Blanket

I've had a fairly busy weekend last week....

Weeding my front garden and planting a few more bulbs. I couldn't resist, Homebase are selling pots of crocus, daffodils and irises for £1 each really good value, I just hope they don't get nipped by any frost.

I finished my nephew's (he's due to make an appearance sometime in February) baby blanket. I used a UK double treble stitch, which I had never used before and edged the blanket in a picot stitch.

Close up photo below..

If anyone would like to try the Double Treble crochet stitch (dtr), you can either visit http://www.learn2knit.co.uk which is where I learnt it from or I have listed it below.

UK Double Treble Stitch

1. Wrap the yarn over the hook twice and insert hook into 5th chain from hook.

2. Wrap the yarn over the hook, draw through the chain only and wrap the yarn again.

3. Draw through the first 2 loops only and wrap the yarn again.

4. Draw through the next 2 loops only and wrap the yarn again.

5. Draw through the last 2 loops on hook - 1 dtr made.

Picot Edging Stitch

First of all crochet a chain of 3 and then stitch 1 double crochet into the second chain from your hook, after that *crochet 3 chains, slip stitch into the third chain from the hook, skip 1 stitch, 1 double crochet into the next stitch and repeat from *.

If you have problems following the picot edging instructions above, have a browse on www.newstitchaday.com. It's an excellent website, ideal for learning knitting as well as crocheting, but please bear in mind this is an American website, so you will need to alter the stitches to the UK version.

 

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