Cobweb Lace Baby Blanket

Been too busy knitting the cobweb lace baby blanket to do any posting. Have finally finished and got it blocked yesterday. It looks fantastic - even if I say so myself. It's so delicate and floaty. Its hard to imagine the finished project when you are knitting this as the real beauty only comes out when you block it.

It's been difficult to try and capture the full blanket so I've posted a couple of pictures of different sections so that you can see the pattern more clearly. I especially love the pointy scalloped edging.

I've still got the matching jacket and bonnet to do but think that I'll finish some other projects before starting those.

I can crochet.....at last

Attended a beginners crochet class in John Lewis, Newcastle today. I have wanted to try crochet for ages but no matter how many books I read, websites I tried, etc I just couldn't get the hang of holding the hook.

Thankfully the class sorted it all out for me and I can now crochet. We learned how to chain, double crochet and treble crochet. We all crocheted flowers at the class (although I still have to sew mine up so haven't included any pictures.

I bought a couple of books, Erika Knight's Essentail Crochet and Carol Meldrum's Easy Crocheted Accessories (Carol took the class).

The class has given me the courage to start a crochet belt kit that I bought last year from Angel Yarns done with South West Trading Oasis. Its going fairly fast - probably much faster than knitting. Its all treble crochet so an easy project to get started with.

I don't think the crochet will ever take over from knitting but its been something that I wanted to know how to do either because a lot of knitting patterns have some crochet edgings or because I keep seeing stunning accessories which are crocheted. At least now I can give those patterns a go.