I've been managing to keep up with the Scheepjes 2016 CAL - Last Dance in the Sea - remarkably well.
Up until week 7, that is, when I realised that the deadline for gifting another crochet project I am working on was looming ever closer, and so I decided to put this CAL to one side until I made better progress on my other work in progress!
Here are the Scheepjes CAL squares I have made so far, in the order that the patterns were released.
Week One.
The pattern for this one was inspired by seaweed.
Week Two.
Week Three.
This was a time consuming square, and took around an hour and a half to make each square!
Week Four.
This pattern is very obviously inspired by waves in the sea.
Week Five.
This one is meant to look like seagull footprints.
Week Six.
Week Seven.
This bobble heart square pattern was one of the reasons I decided to make this blanket. I love how it looks.
And here are the week 1 - 6 squares all together so you can see how lovely the colours are together. This won't be the final arrangement for them, it was just my non random way of seeing how they looked laid out together.
Aren't the colours lovely together?
My other WIP, and the reason for pausing work on this CAL for a couple of weeks, is going to be a gift and so I don't want to share it here until it has been gifted. I can, however, give you all a peek at the colours I have chosen for it, which are equally as gorgeous as the ones above, but in a much more subtle way.
They are Stylecraft Special DK in (clockwise from top left) Storm Blue, Duck Egg, Silver, Sherbet and Cloud Blue.
Stylecraft Special DK and the Scheepjes Colour Crafter that I am using for the CAL are both similar weight yarns, and while I have seen people in the CAL group online saying how much they prefer the Scheepjes to the Stylecraft, I have to disagree with them and say that Stylecraft Special DK is still my favourite of the two. The Scheepjes is indeed softer to touch, but the stitch definition is not as good and I do find it much more 'splitty' than the Stylecraft.
Hopefully it won't be too long before I can share the other project with you all too, and then get back to finishing off Dancing in the Sea, maybe even taking a square or two with me to the sea if we get beach weather in the summer holidays!
