Long overdue and crochet related in Juggling with Hedgehogs

If you’re not remotely interested in crochet or home crafting or whatever, I’d strongly advise skipping this one. I’m just responding to a request a while back for photographs of crochet and Milo (I haven’t uploaded Milo pics yet, so this is the crochet one).

I started doing crochet in the middle of December last year. And the pictures that follow are of the first ‘proper’ item I made, which is a Crochet Along blanket called Fruit Garden by Janie Crow.

These images are of the Acanthus rectangles that go around the outer edge, as they’re being worked:

This is the centre squares being joined:

This is the blanket being blocked:

And finished:

It took me about 2 months to complete this, and when I started it, I didn’t have a clue how to follow a pattern or do any of the stitches contained in it. I followed tutorial videos and the pattern alongside those, and winged it. It was such fun I’ve started another one.

I have done a lot more items since then, and am currently on my third blanket. I can’t find my Lost Garden pictures at the moment - that was the second blanket I did, and even more fun than the Fruit Garden (what is it with Gardens???) one. I took a lot of photographs of that, but I think they’re on my phone, so will take a bit of digging out. Anyway, these are pics of my ‘heirloom’ piece, and I’m very proud of it.