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SandraLopes

Hi, I am happily married and mother of two boys, now adults. I am a "empty nester". I love... [more]

2 years ago

In community: The Art of Crochet(cc22)

Topics: The Art of Crochet, Crochet, Crochet Revolution

"I've been gone for a looong time now and when you continue reading this you will understand why."

Last night, I finally completed my Sunny Blanket. I started this project in March 2021 when I came back to Portugal from France, my husband is a welder supervisor and works mostly outside of Portugal as they get a higher paye and sometimes I can accompany him, then I flew back to France and was unable to take my Project with me. Then came requests from clients wanting me to make them afghans, I sold in total four in 2021 the last one being in December. Then came January and I stayed in Portugal and found the Sunny Blanket project box! Wow, I had completely forgoten about it. All I had was the center mandala.

I jumped right in and got re-accquainted with the project. This is overlay crochet, one of the many techniques used with a basic crochet stitch. As long as you know the foundation stitches and how to read a pattern you can easily make your own. I'll let you in on a little secret........it's my first one! So if I can so can you.

This blanket comprises of three patterns that you must buy from the designer. $4.50 sounds like a lot, this was my mindset many many months ago until I made the maths. It's really not a lot, just think about it. Different to knitting designers, crochet designers allow/authorise the sale of finished project as long as you use your own images and not sell more than four per pattern (mass produce). Heck it took me roughly two and a half months to do this one. When you sell your product you would have made that expense back ten fold.

So if you are a crocheter and want to make it here is the link to Lila Bjorn's website where you will find more info, story and links to purchase it

https://www.lillabjorncrochet.com/2020/02/sunny-blanket.html

Here is a photo of my Sunny Blanket. There are four color ways and I chose the "frozen".

I am so in love with it. Won't be selling this one, no way!

Next I have a video so you can a close up of "her", videos sometimes helps in visualising a item in real time. I especially created a Youtube creator account for this specific reason as an aide to visualize in movement/real time.

This is my Passion, to bring to life all the ch, sc, dc, hdc, trc, so forth that I read in a pattern. This is the "why" I go MIA, I really am a busy girl with my craft.

Hope you enjoyed this.

Love, Peace and Light to you,

Sandra