the year of the square

 After yesterday's rant I treated myself to a new magazine. So today I bought inside crochet. I have to say it's very nice. I have fallen in love with a mystery blanket pattern.

I have always been jealous of people blankets . I can't even fave the changing involved to start. This year I decided I wanted a motif one. I signed up for a cal and when first pattern.came it was well beyond me . It doesn't I spire me to try rest. So was really happy to see this little beauty

However this is part two !

Part was the little motif in middle . I searched all over and couldn't find pattern. Then I had brain.wave remember my bag project ??

 the squares are perfect  size. 

So although I have a long way to go I have a start of a blanket

My news resolution is to finish it lol

It's in.four parts so will be two more no.the just to get whole pattern. I have decided to make it a long project and will.update the blog on my progress as I confess am also still making the waist coat lol

the bag that almost never was

After I finished hat I wondered what next . I looked through a few blogs I like to read and a bag caught my eye.. it was made up of solid granny squares. Then I had a brain wave I had loads in my work bag  so I did count up I needed 26  I had twenty.



Now they were meant to be cushion but like many I made a number of squares and lost will to live . They been in bag ever since.so I made up the missing six squares  and set to work. constructing  the bag was a pain it joined with what my friend calls waffle stitch  . But once you got hang of it it some enough . Then I added a treble border  to top of bag and some string handles and it was done

 As you can see handles to flimsy so add three rows of dc

 Looks much better doesn't it

This is bag from.the other side . I really like it and it certainly better  than a pile of UN loved granny squares in bag

 If you fancy having a go at your own bag the pattern can be found at winks blog