A friend of mine is having a baby and she loves handmade things (yay!!) means I can make another blanket, she’s shown me a couple of grobags she found on http://www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk that she couldn’t decide between, I said I’d incorporate both.
I don’t know if this is going to work but I’m thinking part appliqué with surface crochet to fix it to the blanket, I’m also thinking of being a bit more liberal with the colours (she has been known to like my other work and loves Lucy’s attic 24 and cath kidston )
Photos included of the inspirational grobags:
For the “water” I’m thinking blues with the neat ripple pattern by Lucy @ attic24
Colours used:
Teal
Petrol
Denim
Aster
Turquoise
Aspen
Sherbet
Above the water I thought I could try to make some hills with a semi-circle of green, this would show off the ripples and give an interesting texture for baby.
After doing the ripples portion I decided to use the alternate bobble stitch for the hill and a shell stitch for the sky in Cloud Blue
At the same time I worked on the appliqué animals and ark
And then fixed these to the main blanket by sewing
I added some details using surface crochet:
Next I worked on making a hot air balloon basket using the basket stitch and Copper coloured yarn
The hot air balloon was next
And then the sun
And finally the rainbow and strings for the balloon were done in surface crochet
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