making a new blanket

What better way to start the new year than with a new crochet project ?? My dear friend Natassa spent her Christmas holidays with us and brought me a huge bag full of yarns....different colours and kinds and all lovely...such an amazing gift!!! So i decided to start making things and first of all a brand new crochet blanket...this time im making granny squares with puff flowers in the middle. Don't they look lovely???

im making only two variations and this is how im gonna stitch them together in the end....so colourful and happy !!
these granny squares are pretty easy to make and if you wanna give it a go you can find the pattern here.
Jacquie has a super cute and helpful blog that i follow daily...in fact it's one of those that made me want to learn how to crochet...

So us you all understand i'll be spending my cold afternoons crocheting more and more squares till i have more than enough....and something tells me it wont take much long ;)

crochet bag

This is my first ever crochet bag!!! I had a few simple granny squares that i didn't know how to use and i decided to crochet them together and make a tote bag. It was very easy to make and i only used three different colours of yarn. The bottom lines are made with single crochet stitches and the rest of the bag with double crochet stitches. The granny squares were pretty easy to make to, i will post a link to the tutorial as soon as i find it !!! (if i don't find it i will write it down for you!).
Its really a summer bag, i cant see myself using it now cause most of my winter clothes are grey and black but im already thinking of making a winter version of it...a bit bigger and with darker colours.