Crocheting the biggest blanket in the world!

The association "Mettiamoci una pezza" from Aquila invites you to enter the Guinness World Record by taking part in achieving the biggest crochet blanket in the world!

The idea is to create a large raspberry blanket and assembly it in Trieste on the 20th of June, in 'Piazza Unità D'Italia' for the Guinness Book of Records "the world's biggest blanket "!!!

The association, since 2009 with Yarn bombing and other forms of art, tries to bring attention to the reality of a city (l'Aquila) devastated by the earthquake and ignored by the institutions. This is why this brave women chose to participate in this event through red patches (the entire city center of Aquila is a 'red zone' where time has stood still). 

photo by 'Mettiamoci una pezza' 

To partecipate:

-crochet a red square with yarn or cotton that measure about 50x50cm and sign it with your name and city (this is the facebook page of the event with some example of squares)

send to:

'Associazione Culturale Animammersa'

c/o Patrizia Bernardi

via Strada Statale 17 Bis 87

67100 Paganica (AQ) -ITALY-

NB squares should arrive on 30th of May!!!

My square is almost done::: wanna see yours!

Thanks for reading and happy hooking!

                                                       ******

per le amiche italiane:

L'associazione “Mettiamoci una pezza” del'Aquila vi invita entrare nel Guinness World Record partecipando a realizzare la coperta all'uncinetto più grande del mondo!

La'idea è quella di creare una grande coperta, ma grande grande, color lampone e di portarla il 20 Giugno a Trieste, in Piazza Unità d’Italia (quale Piazza migliore) per il Guinnes dei primati “la coperta più grande del mondo”

L'associazione dal 2009 con Yarn bombing e altre forme artistiche cerca di riportare l'attenzione sulla realtà di una città devastata dal terremoto e ignorata dalle istituzioni. 

 Per questo ha scelto di partecipare a questo evento attraverso pezze rosse, per portare la sua denuncia “una zona rossa ovunque si trovi è questione nazionale” .

Vorremmo raccogliere:

–    “pezze” di lana o di cotone di color lampone, rosse quindi, con tutte le sfumature che ne verranno, esclusivamente lavorate all’uncinetto

–     le “pezze” dovranno avere una misura 50x50cm

–     ogni pezza deve essere firmata a punto a croce, punto erba, su stoffa, come volete insomma, purché ci sia il vostro nome e il nome della vostra città

Potete spedire la vostra pezza presso:

Associazione Culturale Animammersa

c/o Patrizia Bernardi

via Strada Statale 17 Bis 87

67100 Paganica (AQ)

Per facilitare l’organizzazione del lavoro di assemblaggio e per predisporre l’installazione, è importante che il vostro materiale arrivi al massimo per il giorno  30 Maggio 2015!

La mia pezza è quasi finita::: aspetto di vedere le vostre copertine!
Abbracci!

Doing homework

Hello crafty people! It's been a while since I had show you some squares regarding the mood blanket 2014 contest!  But school is already started and for sure I do my homework!

I'm enjoying every step of this journey but during the last month my little mountains of squares grew and grew, and I have to confess that I can't wait to assembly the blanket!

Thank you for your sweet comments in my previous post, they really motivate me::: I have a big news::: a fingerless gloves pattern with tutorial will be published here on the blog very soon! I took the last pictures for my upcoming step-by-step tutorial and I laid down the written pattern so it will be released soon. Stay tuned! 

And you ::: What have you been working on? Wishing you a happy week end!

Granny squares tip and trick

Hello lovelies! Do you remember the mood blanket 2014 contest? I want to show you the squares of july:::the inspiration this time come from LOVE. Granny squares blankets in my imaginary represent sentimental ties and family love and july is a special month to celebrate...

I know that summer is definitively arrived and it's time to put the blanket in the closet, but you know that I'm a granny addicted so I can't stop to talking about this topic yep! For this reason I collect some tips hoping this will be useful to arrange your own blanket project:

-Go to the yarnstore with an accurate list of colors::: or you will buy everything

-Bored of the classic pattern? Take a look at Barbara's  squares motif collection::: you can choose between over 100 patterns! 

-Select carefully your colors combination::: actually I use to do some squares with random colors and other with similar shades to obtain a gradient. P.S.  If you want to be sure that your choise is not affected by your liking you can use a list randomizer (go nerdy!)

-For every color combination make a fixed number of squares::: for this project I change color combination every 4 squares::: in my opinion this can help to achieve a good proportion of color shades

-Take care of the gauge::: make sure that  the crocheted piece you make will be the right size when it's completed::: see my attemp below

I hope I have not bored you with all this talking about granny.. anyway have a great july!

First baby blanket

Hello dear! How is your week going? Last time I promised you the pictures of my ongoing project but first let me show you my finished baby blanket!

I made this blanket for the newborn baby boy of my friend. I don't want to do use the classic blue so I try to combine different colors in order to obtain a rainbow effect::: I used either the authentic seven, in the order of the spectrum and I added some color to encompass more shades.  Finally I want to hook a simple trim all along the edges... but I don't want to overload the pattern design.Sorry ladies, I find the pattern somewhere in the web, and I'm not able to find again so don't have the original to show you but I made a symbolic crochet chart (see below). In addition I find a very similar pattern here

For this project I used a 5mm hook::: 

Chain:::  CH

Double crochet::: DC

 Half Double crochet::: HDC

Foundation chain: you’ll need to crochet a chain of a multiple of 8 stitches plus another 10 chains for the beginning and turning.

Row1:  DC in the 4th chain from the hook, and in each chain until the end, CH 3 and turn.

Row 2: Using a hearts colour fix the yarn where indicated by the star in the chart; CH 1, *skip 2 stiches,  [3DC, 1CH, 3DC] in the next stich , CH 3*.*Repeat till the end of the row until you have 6 stiches left. 

Row3: CH 3 of the row one count as a DC. Double crochet in the next 4 stiches. *CH 2, HDC in the next chain, CH 2,  DC in the next 3 stiches*. *Repeat till the end of the row until you have 6 stiches left. DC in each of the next 6 stiches,  CH 3 and turn. 

Row4: DC in each chain until the end, CH 3 and turn. 

Row5: Using a hearts colour fix the yarn where indicated by the star in the chart;  *skip 2 stiches,  [3DC, 1CH, 3DC] in the next stich , CH 3*.*Repeat till the end of the row until you have 2 stiches left. Row6:  CH 3 of the row4 count as a DC.*CH 2, HDC in the next chain, CH 2,  DC in the next 3 stiches*. *Repeat till the end of the row until you have 2 stiches left. DC in each of the next 2 stiches,  CH 3 and turn. 

I hope everything is clear enough and enjoy making your own heart blankets!

 Happy hooking::: Silvia