One Piece

The granny squares form a one piece now. I still need to strengthen the corners, as I want my blanket to last as long as possible. It will travel to my new home town with me, though eventually it will be property of the original natural dye artist.

Granny Blanket

A granny blanket has been a work in progress for quite some time. It was started in 1983 or 1985, when my sister experimented with plants as dyes. She dyed app. 100 g of wool a colour and ended up with a challenging palette of greens, browns and yellows. The yarn waited for someone in the family to get an inspiration, as we never throw pure wool away. Few years back I started an ambitious empty-all-the-left-over-yarn-baskets project and came across my sister's girlhood experiments. I decided to do what people usually do with an odd amount of odd colours - granny squares. It has taken me a long time to come where I am now, as I have spent the past decade in the tropics and crocheted only during the holidays at home. Finally, last winter a blanket started to take a shape. It will still need few final stitches, but I am slowly getting there.

Doilster

As crocheting has been the thing in my life lately, the more challenging pieces have started to catch my attention. In Jyväskylä my friend showed me her treasures - doilies and lace made by her nan. I cannot but admire the craft. Too bad the doilies do not inspire me as decorative items. I want to do them, but find it such waste to crochet something so pretty and labour intensive for storage only. I need to find new ways to use them before I set my goal to become professional doilster myself.

EDIT: I enrolled to a lucky draw organised by Beautiful Mess blog hoping to win a gift card to Threadsence. So many pretty things to see in both sites. I wish me luck in the draw and wish you to try yours too. Just follow the Mess' instructions and voilà.

Taming a Rainy Day

Strawberries and Schiffer.

And crocheting a new rug while watching good old Hercules Poirot solving yet another mystery.

Come a sunny day and I shall take off to Jyväskylä and turn myself into a travel blogger for a while.

A Rug

As I mentioned, I started to crochet a rug while in Helsinki.

I finished it as soon as I got back home and I love it. Though, I did not love it when I had to pack and carry two extra kilos of rug yarn (rug yarn? I am term guessing here) in my luggage. The rug made its first Mianna Moment appearance in a previous post.

Rug crocheting was so much fun that I started a new one. Shall introduce it shortly.