Tag: Winter Wonderland

After the Winter Wonderland Cal is over now I thought it might be a good idea to collect all information about my blanket in one place.

Winter Wonderland Cal

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And for those who are interested – my detailed yarn amounts

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Long overdue update, June 2024: I’ve finally redesigned the documents with my colour scheme. Please don’t be surprised that it looks a little different, the content is the same.

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I worked on this project for about 6^1/2 weeks. It was a stressful time but I enjoyed it a lot. It‘s definitely my most favorite project in 2021.

Please also have a look at my previous Winter Wonderland posts

Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 1
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 2
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 3
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 4
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 5
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 6

Part 6 is the final part of the Winter Wonderland Cal, the instructions for the border.

It is a double border that will hide all the yarn ends.
If you don‘t like double borders you can of course chose another variant. In connection with the border of my Geometrics blanket, I recently wrote how I feel about it. I don’t want to repeat myself here now, only so much: I love double borders! They are a great finish for a blanket and absolutely worth the effort. At least in my opinion.

Unfortunately this time I had some difficulties with my slip stitch round. I had planned to make a two coloured border with a back layer in Lipstick and front layer in a mix of Graphite and Lipstick. So I thought a slip stitch round in red would look nice. I started my slip stitch round in Lipstick – and had to start over, and over, and over again but didn’t get it neat.

I have recently noticed that there are differences in the thickness of acrylic yarns, even within a brand. In any case, the thread of my Lipstick seemed to be thicker and this may have caused the problems. I don’t know. My solution was to switch to Silver, so that I at least had some contrast at the top and the bottom side. I need new glasses and this made it easier to identify the stitches when working the first round.

From then on, everything went smoothly. Until I finished the first round of the front layer. Ana’s way of working a double border leaves a narrow line of the slip stitch round visible right next to the border. The Silver looked good combined with the grey parts on top and bottom of the blanket but I didn’t like the look in the darker parts of the sides at all. So I started over again and simply worked through both loops on the long sides.

If you follow my colour way I would advise that you use red for the slip stitch round! If you have the same problems as I had, I’d suggest that you use Grey or Graphite but not Silver or White. But keep in mind that Grey and Graphite will be hardly visible on the top and bottom sides.

Long overdue update, June 2024: I’ve finally redesigned the documents with my colour scheme and combined the download into one document. There you will also find the total amount of yarn required. Details on the yarn consumption are listed in this post.
Please don’t be surprised that the files look a little different, the content is the same.

Have fun with this last section of this beautiful pattern 💕

More Winter Wonderland posts:

Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 1
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 2
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 3
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 4
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 5
Winter Wonderland Round up

Now it is already week 5 of the Winter Wonderland Cal. It is the last part before the border.

As I already mentioned in my post on part 2 of the Cal, I ran into some timing issues during testing. Sometimes life gets pretty busy and we had urgent work to do on the house that couldn’t be postponed.

To get the test finished in time I had to stop working on my blanket and checked the pattern by doing a swatch over 2 repeats. Starting with pattern 11 in part 4 of the Cal …

I just used some leftover yarns that I had lying in my basket. I didn’t really care about the colours, but I like the colours I have picked up. Completely different to my blanket and a more rustic look which I also really like. What do you think?

After that I could finally finish my blanket in peace. And this is how part 5 looks in my „regular” colours.

My entire blanket, just before adding the border.

My colour scheme.

Long overdue update, June 2024: I’ve finally redesigned the documents with my colour scheme and combined the download into one document. There you will also find the total amount of yarn required. Details on the yarn consumption are listed in this post.
Please don’t be surprised that the files look a little different, the content is the same.

Have fun 💕

Winter Wonderland Pattern

More Winter Wonderland posts:

Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 1
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 2
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 3
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 4
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 6
Winter Wonderland Round up

Week 4 of the Winter Wonderland has come. Time for the snowmen!

But before I show you the colours I used for part 4 here my

My final yarn amounts

I already listed the rough yarn amounts last week when I was still working on the border. Now here some more details, including the leftovers.

I needed a total of 13 balls Stylecraft Special DK and used 1.044 g / 3.080 m of them . This is nearly the same amount that Ana used for her blanket.

My colours Part 4

To be honest I was struggling a bit with my colour choices for this part.

Since Graphite and Lipstick that I used for pattern 8 is relatively dark, I thought that the blanket could do with something lighter again. That’s why I chose White and Silver for the part with the snowmen.

But, after I had finished their bodies and started on the heads, I wasn’t sure if this was really such a good choice. They looked kind of plump and pale.

Do you see what I mean?

But unfortunately, time usually plays a major role when testing a pattern. You have to think twice wether you rip back 15 rows or not. And as long as there is no mistake that inevitably catches the eye, you probably let it be. And so I continued even if I wasn’t very happy about it.

I was all the more pleased when I noticed that Ana had created this little fun touch! Little shawls to dress the snowme.n. They really do wonders, don‘t they?

I made 8 little shawls in Graphite and 1 Lipstick. The red shawl is worn by snowman No. 3 (the third seen from the right). I used 40 chains and I think they are exactly the right length.

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And here my colours for part 4

Long overdue update, June 2024: I’ve finally redesigned the documents with my colour scheme and combined the download into one document. You can find a summary of the entire Cal in this post.
Please don’t be surprised that the files look a little different, the content is the same.

Happy hooking 💕

Winter Wonderland Pattern

More posts about Winter Wonderland:

Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 1
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 2
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 3
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 5
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 6
Winter Wonderland Round up

Oh wow, it is already week 3 of the Winter Wonderland Cal!

I am currently working on the border. So next week I will be able to tell you how much yarn I used in total, how much is left, etc.

I was really a bit sad when – after these weeks – had worked the last stitch of the blanket section and cut the last thread!
Such a beautiful pattern – I enjoyed testing it so much. Ok, I know I often say that! But this time it is the first time that I am 100 % happy with my colour placement. Somehow that makes it very special for me!

So, here my part 3.

My colour placement

Overdue update, June 2024: I’ve finally redesigned the documents with my colour scheme and combined the download into one document. There you will also find the total amount of yarn required. Details on the yarn consumption are listed in this post.
Please don’t be surprised that the files look a little different, the content is the same.

In case you are looking for the Winter Wonderland pattern, you can find it here.

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And a few more impressions of what my blanket looked like after part 3..

Have a good time 💕

More about Winter Wonderland:

Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 1
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 2
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 4
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 5
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 6
Winter Wonderland Round up

I really hoped that the weather would get better here, but it is a typical November this year. Cold, grey, rainy and foggy.
Unfortunately, I had forgotten to take some nice pictures after I had finished part 2. I actually wanted to catch up on this now. … Well … – now these will have to serve.

I’m currently working on the last twenty rows. Phew!
I don’t think this has ever happened to me before. That a pattern has already been published, but I haven’t finished my test project yet. But sometimes, unfortunately, life gets in the way!
I am very happy that I could at least finish the test beforehand by only doing a small swatch over 2 repeats for the last part. I used some yarn that I had on hand but actually I like the colours very much. I will have to take a picture to show you – it looks completely different.

Yarn Update

Now that I am almost finished with the blanket, I can better estimate how much yarn I will need. 
At the moment they are, for the blanket

• 4 balls White
• 2 balls Silver
• 2 balls Grey
• 2 balls Graphite
• 1 ball Lipstick

For the border I will need an extra ball Lipstick and probably one more Graphite.

My colour placement

And here the colours I used for part 2

Long overdue update, June 2024:
I’ve finally redesigned the documents with my colour scheme and combined the download into one document. There you will also find the total amount of yarn required. Details on the yarn consumption are listed in this post.
Please don’t be surprised that the files look a little different, the content is the same.

In case you are looking for the Winter Wonderland pattern, you can find it here.

I hope you have fun 💕

Some more about Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 1
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 3
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 4
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 5
Winter Wonderland – My colours part 6
Winter Wonderland Round up

Winter Wonderland, the new Cal by Ana Morais Soares / One Skein of Love started today. Are you ready?

As promised, I will list the colours I used row by row here At the end of this post you will find a document to download.

I used Stylecraft Special DK in White, Silver, Grey, Graphite and Lipstick. Although the pattern has now been fully tested, I am unfortunately still working on my blanket. Therefore, I am not yet able to give any details about my total yarn consumption. I will keep you updated as soon as possible.

Here a photo of „my Part 1”. Aren‘t these reindeers cute?

And here my colour placement

Update June 2024:

It’s long overdue: I’ve finally redesigned the documents with my colour scheme and combined the download into one document. There you will also find the total amount of yarn required. Details on the yarn consumption are listed in this post.
Please don’t be surprised that the files look a little different, the content is the same.

In case you are looking for Ana‘s pattern, you will find it here.

I hope you will enjoy this pattern as much as I did. My colours for part 2 and 3 will follow in a few days.

Happy crocheting!

More posts about Winter Wonderland:

Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland – My colours part 2

Winter Wonderland – My colours part 3

Winter Wonderland – My colours part 4

Winter Wonderland – My colours part 5

Winter Wonderland – My colours part 6

Winter Wonderland Round up