Remembering the good things

Finally Spring is beginning to take over. It's much needed taking into consideration how everything else around me feels, so I try to soak in every ray of sun I can find.

I have thought about crocheting a blanket for ages. My great grandmother made blankets for everybody when I was a kid. She sat in her rocking chair with her hook and formed granny squares into blankets that laid on every couch in the family. I never really appreciated her blankets - perhaps mostly because she used scaps she got from what seems like the whole town, and somehow those were often brown and orange...

But then I begang to think about a bright version of Grannys blankets. I still wasn't too much into the squares - but then the right thing jumped into my face: I need hexagons.


I'm using leftovers and yarn bought on sale - all cotton, all approximately the same gauge and most in bright colours. The plan is to make it into a large blanket I can cover under in Fall - or at least to crochet until it's not fun anymore. For now I'm just enjoying the colours and seeing it grow.


I'm often inspired by Liselotte. She started two blankets - a very colourful version like mine and one with white as the outer colour on all hexagons. It's gorgeous. If this keeps on making me happy I'll have to make one in green and violet - next year perhaps, or the year after that.


My plan is to make this into a family blanket with everyone woven into a hexagon. Up until now my parents, grandparents, brothers and their girlfriends have designed each their colourful hexagon. I'll try to get all my family into it - for me this is a perfect way to build feelings and memories into a project.