Hello everyone, I hope your holidays were thoroughly enjoyable and I wish you all a fantastic 2026!
I'm starting off the year not with tatting, but with crochet. On my search in our loft for something else, I found this blanket which I had started back in 2016 and which had been languishing since then after an initial burst of work on it, nearly 10 years ago! This is a blanket designed by Janie Crow and inspired by Frida Kahlo and her art. It's a bit mad with all its colours and bright flowers!
I laid it out on our carpet and this is where I'd left it: most of the completed medallions were already sewn together, the half-medallions for the edge were all made but not sewn on, there were two part-medallions started and 9 medallions still left to make (as well as the edging once it's all put together). Some of the flowers are a bit crumpled from having been stuck in a bag for so many years!
I started with completing the medallions with the big pink flowers in the centre:
Then I sewed all the half-medallions on the two long edges and finally started work on the five last medallions, one for the centre and two for each end of the blanket:
I was all excited to start working on the border when I realised.... that I'd done one of the medallions wrong (see bottom of photo below)! I managed to make it with five points instead of six! So had to take it apart and now need to make a new one and sew it in before I can carry on with the border.
All the flowers will look much better once I've finished and washed and blocked it (many flowers have their petals curled in at the moment).
Anyway, I hope to come back soon to show you the finished blanket. I don't know if I don't think it's a bit too mad but I'd gone so far with it, I felt it deserved to be completed.
How have you started your year? What projects are you working on at the moment?
Best wishes,
Frivole
Oh, and amazingly, I'm embarrassed to say that I found a second part-completed blanket in my loft too! I hope I'm not the only one who has WIPs hiding in corners of her home...
Second blanket appearing in another blogpost soon.
