Simply Crochet issue 22

Do you subscribe to any crafting magazines?

I get Simply Crochet, Mollie Makes and Making every month. That's quite a lot of magazines but the one I wouldn't give up is Simply Crochet (I also but Inside Crochet buy only if I see a great pattern)

My lovely sister was visiting from France as I was looking through Issue 22 and she spotted a beautiful scarf called All at Sea by Elisabeth Davis de Herraiz

The pattern was mainly treble crochet and looked easy enough and the colours were gorgeous.

She asked me to make it for her birthday and I happily agreed after all I haven't made anything other than a huge granny square for months.

I ordered the yarn  a gorgeous Araucania Botany Lace 100% Merino buying 2 skeins so I could make one for myself.

I sat down to make it and immediately ran into trouble. I just couldn't follow the written pattern and got really confused. It was so frustrating especially as I hadn't tackled a pattern in such a long time it really knocked me. There was no chart either and I like to have a chart to refer to. I discovered during my Forest school training that I am a visual learner. I like to see what I'm learning, be able to pick it up and have a good look.

Thank goodness for twitter I sent Simply Crochet a quick tweet #loveachart and they sent me this reply

So the chart you can see peeking out from the magazine is the one I printed from their website. So now I am off!!

the pattern will need a serious block to look anything like the picture but once I got my chart it was easy

Its growing very quickly and only has 50 rows, I have 10 more to go.

Meanwhile I have finished sewing in all the ends of Jacobs gorgoeus granny square blanket. I haven't blocked it although I would like to as the ends curl up but the boy wanted his blanket so here it is on his bed...

Annoyingly I can't turn this the right way up but you get the idea....it has blended in but at least its not on the floor like everything else in his room as he likes to make his bed tidy to display it. Huge praise indeed from a teenage boy....