Dreaming of Summer… a new CAL!

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Hellooooo! It’s been a while… how are you all? 🥰 💙

After a long winter with incredibly busy crochet hooks, it feels good to be emerging into spring, and I’m very excited to be able to start sharing the crochet projects that have been on my hooks behind the scenes these past few months.

So here goes… this is ‘Dreaming of Summer’!☀️

The blanket is a bright and beautiful celebration of summer. I adore the theme ‘Dreaming of Summer’ and I was designing this during the darker winter months, so dreaming of summer was a wonderful thing to be doing!

This is a blanket I’ve designed exclusively for Inside Crochet Magazine using King Cole Cottonsoft DK. It will be a 3-part crochet along starting in Issue 189 of the magazine on sale 7th May and I’m sooooo excited!

Inside Crochet is a magazine I love and the team have been a dream to work with. More information can be found in the current issue (188)…

There’s a 3 issue subscription offer just for the CAL which is great… go to https://www.selectmagazines.co.uk/product/inside-crochet/ for more details.

I took my finished sample with me on a winter holiday to Finland to capture some photos of me dreaming of summer in the winter months… the blanket showcased beautifully against the wintry snowy backdrop making me realise that this is definitely a blanket for anytime of year. I love how it really made those bright colours pop!

During the design process I let my imagination drift off to warm hazy summer days and wanted to capture as much of that summer feeling in this blanket.

So squares featuring a bold sunshine, summer flowers, sand and sea, plus fresh juicy strawberries have all emerged. And finishing with a gingham border seemed just perfect… reminding us of all those gorgeous summer picnics we can enjoy.

Hints of summer are certainly being felt here today on the south east coast… the coastal flowers are all coming into bloom which is always a wonderful sight!

And what a sunset we enjoyed yesterday evening…

I hope you love this blanket as much as I do… I adored designing it and the different textures and stitch patterns were a lot of fun to put together! 😍

Happy Crocheting Everyone… 💙

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  1. I would love to make this, but I live in Spain and can only buy a 10 issue subscription for 99.00 GBP and the 6 month digital subscription is also expensive. Very disappointed that I cannot access this as it looks lovely and I will be ready for a new project when this comes out. Eleanora, you have many followers who live abroad – who, like me, do not want to spend all that money on a pattern. I subscribed for the Pura Vida blanket – and didn’t make anything else from the magazine as nothing in it appealed to me. What a shame that your international followers can’t access these lovely patterns until after everyone else. (I take it that it will be released on Ravelry after the CAL has finished).

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    1. Hi Kate… yes, the pattern rights will return to me after the CAL so it will certainly be available for people direct from me but as you say, sadly later than for those getting the magazine. My main crochet along for King Cole will be released in the summer and that will be free on the website for everyone to enjoy all over the world. Most of my patterns are available internationally but the magazine designs are out of my control until the rights return to me… 🙏🥰🥰🥰😘

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    1. Here you go… 😊
      King Cole ‘Cottonsoft DK’ 100g (100% cotton, 210m/229yds) in the following
      colours and quantities:
      Sunshine (5701) 2 x balls
      Mint (715) 2 x balls
      Candy Floss (3462) 2 x balls
      Cherry (719) 2 x balls
      Azure (3366) 1 x ball
      White (710) 1 x ball
      Emerald (701) 1 x 100g ball
      Clementine (3464) 1 x 100g ball
      Lavender (1849) 1 x 100g ball
      Honey (1930) 1 x 100g ball

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  6. This is such a beautiful blanket and I love the photos of it against the wintry background. I always love your blanket designs!

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