My sister Ann is going to be 60 this December and she has asked me to make her a blanket for her bed.

She wants Shabby Chic, which means dull, dreary colours to me. She has chosen them and I will do the best I can with them.

I have spent all week trying to find a square that I think will work and I have decided that I will make a sampler blanket, using all different flower squares, alternated with a plainer square in cream.

Most of them I have made before and it is a walk down Memory Lane for me. I made a lot of the squares years ago when I was first learning to follow a crochet pattern.

I am going to show Ann the first square tomorrow and if she likes the idea, I will continue making the blanket without showing her, so it will be a surprise when she opens it.

Will have seen how that turns out.

After a few false starts, we have decided on our revised colour palette and squares that we are happy with, so it should be plain sailing from now on

Squares Used:

1. Flower Girl Square
2. Sunflower Square
3. A Very Victorian Christmas Square
4. Crocodile Stitch Square
5. Flower Granny Square
6. More ‘V’s Please Square
7. Mum in Treble Square
8. La La Bumchem Square
9. Sommer-Röschen Granny Square
10. Tropical Delight Square
11. NeverEnding WildFlower Square
12. Waterlily Square
13. Lily Pond Flower Square
14. 10 - Petal Square
15. Whimsical Penelopes Merry-Go-Round Square
16. Rose Garden Square
17. Copper Tones Square
18. Marigold Square
19. The Secret Garden Square
20. Lily Flower Square

Border:

I worked 3 rounds of cream granny clusters, using BunnyMummy’s tutorial for the 1st roundlink text

Rd 1: 2sc, 2ch, 2sc for corner, sc in each stitch around.
Rd 2: 2dc, 2ch, 2dc for corner, crossed dc all around.
Rd 3: Repeat Rd 1.
Rd 4: 9 tbc with 3ch picot in corner, sk 3 chains, 9tbc
with 3ch picots in next st all around.

I used the JAYG method for joining the squares. A great tutorial being here