Knit and crochet spots and stripes blanket

I finished a new blanket, I'm pretty happy with it:

Knit and crochet blanket with spots and stripes

I love the look of it! Originally I wanted to do different size spots in 3 colours, but I didn't find three matching colours that I liked, and I really wanted to start the project. Both the crochet and the knit squares were easy to make and different from each other, so I didn't get bored with this project.

What I don't like about this is the size: it's not very big, some of the squares are attached a bit crooked to each other, because of the different lengths, but I'm hoping it will be less noticeable over time. I wish it was black and white, that would be so stylish! 

Well, I'll have to make another one some day. First though, I want to make one with different sized and coloured spots. 

Crochet Baby Blanket finished!

Today I finished a baby blanket in this modern chevron pattern. The crochet pattern is very easy, this is my second blanket (though the first one isn't actually finished yet). Originally, I intended (and started) a granny square blanket for this new baby, but it turned out to be a dreaded project that I just didn't like picking up. There are so many threads to sew...

So just a few weeks ago I started this blanket. I tried to get one colour-change done every day (or every day that I wasn't busy with something else). Still I just finished it in time for meeting baby Annika for the first time tonight. I hope she'll like it. 

Crochet blanket in my mother's garden.

 I'm on holidays this week, visiting my family in Germany. Hopefully, I'll get lots of projects done, books read, friends visited, food eaten...