CROCHET-ALONG

Bring Spanish sunshine into your home with the bright colours and textured stitches of Ana Morais Soares’ seven-part Talavera blanket crochet-along

Lots of new stitches to try!

YOU WILL NEED

Materials are for the whole Blanket

■ Caron Simply Soft, (100% acrylic, 170.1g/288m), 4 balls of Off White (9702), 3 balls of each: Blue Mint (9608), Robin’s Egg (9780), 2 balls of each: Gold (9782), Fuchsia (9764)

■ A 5.5mm (US H/8) hook

■ Stitch markers or scrap yarn

For yarn stockists contact Wool Warehouse 01926 882818 www.woolwarehouse.co.uk

TENSION

Rounds 1-10 to measure approx 10cm (4in) in diameter

MEASUREMENTS

Finished blanket measures approx 145x145cm (57x57in)

ABBREVIATIONS

5-tr pc 5tr in st/sp specified, remove loop from hook, insert hook in first tr, place loop on the hook and draw loop stitch, ch1 to secure. To work in the ‘eye’ of a pc already made, insert hook in sp created when loop on hook is drawn through first st

standing sts A standing st at beg of round is worked starting with a slip knot on the hook, then the st indicated is worked as normal in the st or sp specified cl Work all sts of a cl in the same st/sp specified, working each st of the cl up to the last yrh of each st. At this point there will be 1 loop on the hook for each st of the cl, plus the original loop on the hook (for a 2-tr cl there will be 3 loops on the hook), yrh, draw through all loops on hook