Revised on 12 August 2026
A little note before you start: Winter’s Love was a CAL that ran in November and December 2024. I’m keeping this post as a record of my experience testing the pattern and making my blanket. If you’re discovering Winter’s Love now, you can still get the pattern and use my colour placement as inspiration for your own blanket.
About a fortnight ago I showed you my current test project: Winter’s Love Cal. A new overlay mosaic pattern by Ana Morais Soares from One Skein of Love. At that point, I had just finished about two-thirds of the blanket.
The CAL has now started, and Ana has just published Part 2 of the pattern. And yes, I am almost finished with my blanket!
All tails are knotted and cut! All the slip stitches to start the border are done! So, last night I started with the back layer of the border.
When I started working on my blanket a few weeks ago, I decided to swap the colours; Ana’s blanket starts with a light background and dark motifs. With my blanket, it’s the other way round. So I started using Off-White as C1 (the motifs) and Claret Red as C2 (background).
I really love the way how this turned out!
However, when I reached pattern 9, I had some doubts about my colour placement.
Due to my colour scheme, the trees in pattern 9 were displayed in Off-White. Combined with the light-coloured baubles in Pattern 8, I didn’t really like the look Although I’d already finished half of Pattern 9, I decided to change it. This meant, I had to go back a few rows!
I kept the first two rows in the my original colour scheme – Row 1 in Off White and Row 2 in Claret Red.
I skipped Row 3 of the instructions. As it’s a simple row of single crochet, this doesn’t affect the pattern. However, it meant I could carry on with Off White instead of Claret Red in Row 4 – and voilà, the colours had swapped places. And: I like it better that way!
Please note: If you decide to do the same for your blanket, you will have one row fewer when counting the rows in Pattern 9 and also in the total number of rows in your blanket. This also means that you will have one stitch fewer on the long sides when you crochet the slip stitches and the border.
Unless, of course, you do it the way I did. After finishing the last pattern, I added a row of single crochet stitches in Off White. That way, I started and finished the blanket in the same colour. But to be honest, it wasn’t the look that made me do it. It was simply the fact that this gave my slip stitches a contrasting background on both short sides. Otherwise, my eyes wouldn’t have been able to cope with it.
My colour placement
Yarn amounts (except border)
For the body of the blanket I have used
- Off White — 4 balls
- Claret Red — 4 balls
Yarnsmiths Create DK from Wool Warehouse
The total yarn amounts will be listed in the next post.
There is nothing left from these balls. So with a different tension you might run short with these amounts.
That’s it for today! I’m going to get started on putting up some Christmas decorations now. And I’ll carry on working on the border! I hope you all have a lovely time 💕
More posts in the Winter’s Love series
My Winter’s Love blanket – it’s finished — including total yarn amounts and detailed colour placement guide
Get the pattern
Get the Winter’s Love pattern on Ravelry
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