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Sampler Blanket Part 1

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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 ...