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My Winter’s Love blanket – it’s finished

Updated on 16 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.

Last weekend I finally crocheted the last stitches on my Winter’s Love blanket — it’s finished! And I really enjoyed working on it!

A short summary

Winter‘s Love is the current CAL (Crochet Along) by Ana Morais Soares from One Skein of Love. It started on 22 November 2024 and is divided into 4 parts. Part 4 – the last one – will be published on Friday, 13 December 2024. Time flies…
It’s never too late to get yourself the pattern, though. It might be a bit late to finish the blanket in time for Christmas. But starting it at Christmas and finishing it for next year is certainly a lovely idea too.

If you’d like to make your own Winter’s Love blanket, you’ll find the pattern link at the end of this post.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure testing this lovely pattern.

My yarn and yarn amounts

This time I tried a completely new yarn. Well, at least completely new to me: Yarnsmiths Create DK. It is an own brand from Wool Warehouse.

Create DK is a 100% acrylic yarn. It comes in 100 g balls and has a yardage of 290 m per 100 g. It is currently available in 120 colours.

I decided to go with Claret Red (3090) and Off White (3045) for my blanket.

In total I needed

4 balls Off-White
6 balls Claret Red

I really like the quality of Create DK. The yarn is of a consistent thickness and is soft and supple. I really enjoyed working with it! I’ll definitely have to get some more colours.

Finished size

I used a 4 mm crochet hook, and my finished blanket measures approximately 120 x 150 cm. That’s about 47 x 59 inches.

My colour placement

After a first attempt (the sample at the top), I decided to reverse the colours and start my blanket with a dark background, against which the motifs appear in white.

I kept this colour scheme for the first eight patterns. Then, I switched the colours again.

I already wrote about the reasons for this in my previous post. There you will also find detailed information on how I proceeded exactly when swapping the colours. The post also includes an overview of my detailed colour placement for all the patterns of the blanket. The only colours not listed there are those used for the border: the slip stitch round, the front and back layers, and the joining round were all worked in Claret Red. And that’s it.

However, to make things easier for you, I’ve now compiled my entire colour scheme into a PDF file. So, if you’re interested, you can download my colour placement guide at the end of this post.

Well, that’s another big crochet project finished. Afterwards, I always feel as though I’ve fallen into a huge, dark hole. Does anyone else get that feeling?

I’ve no idea yet what I’m going to do next. Unfortunately, I’m having some trouble with one of my eyes at the moment (and I’ve got a few appointments with my eye doctor). So I think it’ll be something small. Maybe a few granny squares? Or something small for Christmas? Hmm, we’ll see!

Wish you a lovely time 💕

Get the colour placement guide

Winters Love.pdfDownload

More posts in the Winter’s Love series

Winter’s Love Mosaic CAL

My Winter‘s Love blanket – A quick update

Get the pattern

Get the Winter’s Love pattern on Ravelry

My Winter’s Love blanket – A quick update

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

Winter’s Love Mosaic CAL

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