Currently working on: Meadow Mystery Blanket CAL

Pattern: Meadow Mystery Blanket Cal by DROPS Design
Yarn: Garnstudio Drops Safran
Colour: natur, vanille, marine, army, türkis
Hook: 3mm
Start of project: March 30th, 2016

On Ravelry

Nine weeks ago I started the Meadow Mystery Blanket CAL because I wanted to reactivate my crochet. Just like knitting I learnt how to crochet at school, so about 30 years ago. I was never any good and neither did I like it very much.

Because this happened to be true about knitting and my feelings totally changed I wanted to give crochet another chance. Somehow a CAL seemed like a good idea. I would learn by doing in little steps over the 18 weeks of the CAL and at the end I might know whether crochet was something for me or not.

my first two squares

 In the beginning I was terribly clumsy and I had to watch the videos over and over. I couldn't remember all the names of the different stitches. It was slow progress but now I can more or less read a pattern (a written pattern) and I had quite some fun with the granny squares we had to knit over the first eight weeks.

granny square daisies in a Greek meadow

This week it was time to join them all together, so now they look like a blanket for the first time, a tiny blanket which is supposed to grow more over the second part of the CAL. Knitting is still much more interesting for me but I enjoy learning new techniques and seeing the project grow.

after five weeks