Category: yarn review
The Charming Harbour Blanket…
After a slow start I am finally making steady progress on my Charming Harbour blanket.

I have found myself flitting from one project to the next lately, but I am getting at least a couple of rows hooked each evening now; which is reassuringly comforting as the pattern is so familiar.

I am enjoying the simplicity of the colourway also. A trio of sober colours, which formally stand to attention and which make this blanket so wonderfully handsome and so beautifully striking.
The yarn has also proven to be a joy to hook with. The yarn is from the Women’s Institute…you can read my review of it just here.
I am totally thrilled with this blanket’s reversibility which was entirely serendipitous. The right side is darker

and the back (I can’t call it the wrong side…because it is not wrong at all!) is lighter altogether.
I have not been disciplined in weaving in the ends as I go, so I must make more effort else I will have a mammoth task at the end!

Yes, this Charming Harbour blanket is just that…
charming!
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Women’s Institute Yarn….A review so far
So, what can I tell you about this yarn?
It’s perfectly plump!
For a dk weight the yarn strand is divinely round, but all in a good way. I’m hooking my Charming Harbour blanket in this yarn and let me tell you that it is hooking up into a seriously squishy comforter indeed.
The yarn slides well over my hook, it feels cozy and comfortable on my skin and has not split or frayed one little bit.
It’s 100% premium acrylic so is affordable, washable and dryable and very easy to care for. The ball band tells me there is 250m in yarn length for a 100g ball and is exclusive to Hobbycraft.
A minimum of 3p from each ball sold is donated to the National Federation of Women’s Institutes.
The Women’s Institute is the largest women’s organisation in the UK and champions all sorts of campaigns such as gender pay gap to midwifery shortages, climate change and food waste.
On the down side the colour range is basic to say the least, which didn’t matter in the slightest for my Charming Harbour Blanket, which is looking very dapper in a trio tone.

This could be a limitation for my more usual hook ups which consistently involve numerous colours…however, all in all I’m smiling with this yarn.
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Sunday Shawl Love…
This is my Mellow Sunday Shawl by Alia Bland.
I want to start by telling you how amazing this is to hook, how simple, yet stunningly beautiful.
I want to tell you how deliciously soft scheepjes merino is and how it creates such a gorgeous stitch definition.
I want to shout with joy at just how happy I am with these amazing mellow colours; but that will all become obvious when you see the pictures!
I started with this serene grey

This was a therapeutic hook, the subtle tone of the yarn, and the ease of the pattern made for a quick hook up of the main body. I really enjoyed that each stitch was made in between the stitches of the previous row and not in the top of the stitches as is usual.
My heart was skipping towards the next colour though. A teal; and one of my favourite colours of all time.

Next a perfect pink…

This yarn is a dream, it is a dk weight, but it has a satisfying plumpness to it, making it pleasantly squashy! This pale pink was followed by an equally gorgeous spring green.

The quick colour changes make this pattern good for the soul…you know how I love colour.

This mustard colour makes me very, very happy, but then so does this sky blue…

And so this enjoyable colour changing border continued…


Until my heart near burst as the pattern instructed me to hook scallops and I politely introduced this even paler pink.
