Dragon Scale Gloves

A topic of conversation at one of our crafty crops recently was the beautiful dragon scale gloves several of us crocheters had seen on Pinterest and other sites. I was intrigued and purchased a pattern from Ravelry as I thought I would see if I could master the stitch as Linda had requested a pair for her birthday.

I took some wool and the pattern on holiday to Scotland with me and made and made a pair in a pinks - cream - browns verigated yarn (Summer Meadow) using Drops Big Delight wool purchased from Little Woolie, London. This is 100% wool and the thickness varies as well as the shade. It works up as Aran weight. My only disappointment with this wool is the fact that there are joins in the 100gm ball.

On route to our destination in Skye I purchased some Colour Works Aran by Patons in Tropical Mix colours 111, 25% wool. Also available from Love Knitting.

I made several other pairs including plain black for my friend Sandra in Rowan Super Fine Merino Aran which I purchased from Crafty Needle, West Wickham. I forgot to photograph these before giving them away. x

More photos of Linda's pair:

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Crochet Girl Gang - Crochet Along Blanket

My next project to share is this blanket I made for my Mum for Christmas. It crochet this time, and made using Simply Aran Yarn from Paintbox. I am enjoying creating these crochet-a-long (CAL) projects where you learn different techniques each week and gradually build up the parts of the quilted blanket. This particular pattern is available from The Crochet Girl Gang via Love Crochet, I also purchased my wool from them.

The centre of each square shape is different, but the outer rounds are the same, they are cleverly calculated to turn out the same size. There is a weekly PDF to download with the instructions for the square and where needed the corresponding triangle. 

I worked a row of each colour used around the blanket once I had stitched them together and then added a scalloped edge rather then the tassels or bobbles on the original pattern. 

This picture shows the original designs by Emma Potter of Potter & Bloom and Emma Friedlander-Collins from Steel & Stitch.

I saw this image on the blog - "Merion’s hedgerow colourway includes shades Racing Green, Slate Green, Pistachio, Raspberry Pink and Rich Mauve and a border shade of Misty Grey." I decided I wanted to make Mum's blanket with this colour scheme:

Merry Christmas Mum.

If you decide to have a go it's good fun and of course the whole project is available free on the blog now.

Thanks for looking

Lynn x