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Completed: 1/9/2010 – A garage in Orcet, Loire valley, France Materials: Organic Welsh Wool – natural white aran weight, natural silver DK. Design: A common square – I’ve laid out the few squares so far and I’m very happy with how this common square is working in the design. It’s a nice quick one to knit actually “on . . . → Read More: 8. Blanket Square 5 – “The Road 2″ Completed: 1/9/2010 – A garage in Orcet, Loire valley, France Materials: Organic Welsh Wool – natural white aran weight, natural charcoal aran weight. Design: The inspiration for this square came from the sunflower fields surrounding the garage we returned to after our Loire-side camping, an encounter with these gorgeous flowers which was a bit of serendipitous compensation for . . . → Read More: 7. Blanket Square 4 – “Sunflower Fields” Date: 2/9/2010 Current Location: Carcassonne, S France Carcassonne - a Medieval French town at the very South-easterly tip of France, a prelude to our Pyrenees crossing, this was our next fixed destination on our trip, after we left the Loire valley, as my husband has been there before and wanted to show me the magic views of the . . . → Read More: 6. South France and French Farm Mohair – to Carcassonne and across the Pyrenees Completed: 30/8/2010 10:30 – Maurice Hardy Garage, Boulogne. Materials: Organic Welsh Wool – natural white aran weight, 2 strands natural silver DK. Design: I wanted something evocative of the start of the journey, and there’s something very symbolic about getting a ferry when your home is on an island (such as the UK). It’s a very . . . → Read More: 5. Blanket Square 3 – “The Sea, The Sky, Our Ferry, a Cloud” Completed: 29/8/2010 – Dover to Boulogne ferry Pattern: With the two strands together, . . . → Read More: 4. Blanket Square 2 – “The Road 1″ Completed: Early August – Abergavenny, Wales (a pre-honeymoon, prelude blanket square, “Made in Wales”) Since planning this idea of making a Welsh Wool Story Blanket of our honeymoon, I’ve been wondering how to tie the whole design together when I’ll be making so many different squares (“Story squares”) with different designs, stitches, wools. In the end I decided to either have a light/dark chequerboard design, with alternating shades (lovely . . . → Read More: 2. The Blanket Design 2. The First Few Days – France and heading Sud So, we’re on the road on our big honeymoon trip across France, Spain, Morocco and Portugal and back again, and my self-set challenge is to make a honeymoon blanket while on the road. It should be . . . → Read More: 1. The First Few Days – France and heading Sud … I would get serious yarn-withdrawal if I didn’t take some craft projects with me, so my challenge is to buy yarn as we travel (because there isn’t room in the van for more than a smidgeon of Organic Welsh wool to start me off) and knit and crochet a Honeymoon blanket along the way. Can I make that work over the four weeks of our Big Trip? I’m very excited about trying! … . . . → Read More: Crafty packing for the Honeymoon Trip |
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