Frozen Stars

I love the flowers in the snow pattern by Solstrikke. It is simple yet very effective and can look very different depending upon whether you use few or many colours.
Its a while since I made anything with this pattern so decided it was time for a revisit!
I decided on a cool colour palette.

Stylecraft Special DK in white, bluebell, silver, graphite and sherbet and a 4mm hook.

This is the finished circle to square. I will be omitting the final round of turning the circle to square as I will join as I go. The flowers in the snow pattern by Solstrikke is here.

48 circles later...

I used three different pattern colour ways:
Top-2nd and 3rd row same colour.
Middle- 3 different colours
Bottom-2 diffent colours

I went for a random pattern... always so difficult as it doesn't matter how much you scan the rows you are bound to find one in the wrong place after joining! I am also a symmetrical girl and this made my eye twitch but I persevered!

Ok all ready to join. Join as you go here we come... Attic24 has a good tutorial on this.

 It is just so neat!

I did a block stitch border of 11 rows and then a 3 chain braid to finish. Simples!

This was going to be a very exciting blocking moment as my new blocking boards had arrived. I had ordered 12 as they are sold individually and at a cost of £4 a block not a cheap investment but they did not disappoint! These are Boye Crochet Dude blocking boards.They have a grid and are 12x12" square. I got mine from http://www.carolescraftsuk.co.uk/  with free shipping.

Sooo much easier than running round the table with a tape measure and it seemed to dry much quicker too... result!!

Ta'Dah!

Blanket size 100x80cms. I wanted to give this blanket a 'cool' name and toyed with arctic sea, winter's night, snow queen etc then it was suggested on Instagram to call it Frozen Stars... I liked that :)

xxx Eirawen