August 6th, 2010 
mio I’ve added a new, free pattern, well, more of a recipe, really, to make a blanket like this one:
You’ll find it under “Granny” at the top of this page, click here: http://fantasticmio.com/granny
I still haven’t figured out how to enable comments on the pattern pages, so feel free to leave them here instead. Especially let me know if you decide to try this pattern!
Posted in Afghans, Pattern 
Tags: afghan, blanket, crochet, granny square, Pattern, Tutorial 
No Comments » June 25th, 2010 mio You know you’ve been away from your blog a long time when the spammers start to notice! My spam filter for the comments found one that said something like, “Come back, please come back!” How nice! ^_^
I’ve been silent because of a combination of “working on presents for people who read the blog” and “working on getting a pattern published”.
I’ve been over-thinking about this for about a month now, and I’ve finally made a decision! I’m off work because of the G20 Summit being hosted in Toronto this weekend, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to post the pattern for the Oddly Linked Blanket.
If you’re on Ravelry, you’ll find the pattern here: Oddly Linked Blanket.
If you’re not on Ravelry, you should still be able to buy it by clicking on the button below to be taken directly to the PayPal page:
You would be paying $2.00 USD for the pattern for the blanket. I’d say it’s an easy-intermediate level blanket, with one tricky part that is clearly (I hope!) explained using both text and lots of pictures.
Once you get the hang of the special stitch, the blanket works up quickly! Use any smooth, solid coloured yarn with an appropriate hook for best results. I think a variegated yarn would work well, but one with long runs of colours would work best.
One last note: I know that this pattern looks like it might have a lot of ends to weave in, but it has exactly as many as you’d expect with that many colour changes; so 2 ends per stripe of colour.
March 4th, 2010 mio In my adventures with stitch height, I made this:
And here is the pattern:
Work in rows, leave a long starting tail
ch6
R1: sc in second chain from hook, hdc, dc, htc, tc. ch4 (counts as a tc) turn
R2: htc, dc, hdc, sc, ch1, turn
Repeat these two rows until you have 15 rows.
Use the starting tail to sew the bottom of the first row to the top of the last row. Weave in end.
Working in the round, make 4 sc around the tc stitches around the edge. Join to first sc. Weave in end.
(As always, please let me know if you try this pattern, and if you come across any errors!)
