In the words of Anais, today was cool, it all started when the weather was nice and we went to sit outside. Anais made 2 granny squares and did some French knitting. Roman spent most of the day making things out of Knex and now my blanket is finished I started another crochet scarf.
Roman made a car out of Knex with a caravan on the back - it even had a jockey wheel. The back was unsupported though and kept dragging on the floor so he added another wheel at the back. He angled the front quite curvy the same as our caravan with it not so curvy at the back. He put his teddy bear in the caravan and tied wool to it and took it for a ride on his bike! The teddy bear was dragging on the floor though and got a dirty bum so he moved the teddy bear to the car, added a steering wheel, cannons and a seat belt to hold the teddy bear in. After lots of alterations here is the end result!
Roman made a car out of Knex with a caravan on the back - it even had a jockey wheel. The back was unsupported though and kept dragging on the floor so he added another wheel at the back. He angled the front quite curvy the same as our caravan with it not so curvy at the back. He put his teddy bear in the caravan and tied wool to it and took it for a ride on his bike! The teddy bear was dragging on the floor though and got a dirty bum so he moved the teddy bear to the car, added a steering wheel, cannons and a seat belt to hold the teddy bear in. After lots of alterations here is the end result!
He then pitched the caravan up and made a chair for the bear when the bear wasn't being pulled along by the bike!
Anais made a Knex basketball set.
Mark came home and did some work on his model.
Here is a decent picture of my crochet blanket. I love having the ideas and thinking of how things can go together. I started off wanting to do a random blanket of different squares, some flat and some 3D but later discounted that as it would be uncomfortable to sit on! The African flowers were quite pretty and something I had never done before. I wanted to do it 14 x 14 squares but then realised it would be too big so reduced it to 12 x 12 squares. I loved doing little by little everyday and seeing it all come together! I also put a hand crocheted with love label on it and two wooden flower buttons.
Statistics!
106 African flowers made at home between May and July
38 African Flowers made in the caravan July & August
144 African flowers bordered in white at caravan in July & August
I got 29 flowers bordered from 1 ball of white wool, so, 144 flowers were bordered with 5 balls of white wool!
It took 1 ball of white wool (88 grams to be exact!) to crochet all the flowers together
In total I used 7 balls of white including the border
The 144 African flowers were made with the leftovers from doing 3 previous crochet blankets (very thrifty!)
African flower pattern can be found here
Mark just weighed it for me (yes I have digital scales in the caravan and yes they are mostly used for weighing wool!) and it weighs 1352 grams or 1.3 kilos which is the equivalent of 14 balls of wool!
106 African flowers made at home between May and July
38 African Flowers made in the caravan July & August
144 African flowers bordered in white at caravan in July & August
I got 29 flowers bordered from 1 ball of white wool, so, 144 flowers were bordered with 5 balls of white wool!
It took 1 ball of white wool (88 grams to be exact!) to crochet all the flowers together
In total I used 7 balls of white including the border
The 144 African flowers were made with the leftovers from doing 3 previous crochet blankets (very thrifty!)
African flower pattern can be found here
Mark just weighed it for me (yes I have digital scales in the caravan and yes they are mostly used for weighing wool!) and it weighs 1352 grams or 1.3 kilos which is the equivalent of 14 balls of wool!
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