Natalie McCrochet

  So in my last post I shared the first ten stripes of my Attic24 inspired, stash busting, sampler blanket. Well I had plenty of opportunities for crochet time this past weekend, so here are stripes 11-26. Row 11. If you're following my colour order, switch to tomato yarn. Chain 3 (counts as first treble crochet), tc in each stitch to end. Row 12. Repeat row 11. These two rows set up my version of the cosy stripe pattern. Row 13. Switch to claret. "Cosy stripe, row 1." Chain 3 (counts as first tc), tc in same stitch *skip 2 stitches, 3tc in next stitch* repeat until you reach the last 2 stitches, skip 1 stitch, tc in last stitch. Note: this is very slightly different to the original cosy stripe pattern, in order to fit our stitch count. Row 14. "Cosy stripe, row 2." Chain 3 (counts as first tc), 1 tc in space between the last cluster and the single tc of the previous row. You'll now continue working into the spaces between the clusters. 3tc in each space to

I'm Natalie, and for the ten years or so that I've been crocheting, it's been both my happy place and my therapy. I'm a huge fan of crochet bloggers such as Lucy of Attic24, and Heather of the Patchwork Heart. I love to gift and donate handmade items, and I also have an Etsy where you can purchase my work ( NatalieMcCrochet on Etsy ). My latest finished project was the Seaside Stashbusting Blanket, by Coastal Crochet.  And this has inspired my current WIP (work in progress 😊 - got to love a bit of crochet slang 😂) my Attic24 sampler blanket. So this is my first attempt at designing something like this, and at writing up a pattern that makes sense to anyone but me! I'm not trying to take credit for the stitches, and all of the detailed photo tutorials can be found over on the Attic24 blog ( Attic24 (typepad.com) ) My colour inspiration comes from my stash of Stylecraft special dk, in a loose "random rainbow" colour repeat (ok, that makes more sense in my