Fireside Stripes

Morning my lovelies! I want to start today's post by giving you all a massive, big, squishy warm ((((HUG)))) by way of a thank you for all the beautiful comments and messages I've received about the Fireside Blanket. Its hard to put into words how this week has been for me, but overwhelmingly I am so very thankful for our happy, friendly community here online. I am just so bloomin' grateful for you all!! Huge thanks to any of you who hopped over to my shop to buy a Fireside blanket kit, it has made me feel quite emotional seeing how many thousands of blankets are going to be taking shape all over the world in the coming weeks. I hope with all my heart that these cosy colours bring you joy and contentment as you begin to work your own hooky magic.

On Thursday we lit our first fire of the season. Even though it was the last day of Summer and I desperately wanted to at least wait until Autumn had officially arrived, we gave in when we found ourselves cold and shivering in the late afternoon. It felt so, so lovely, not just the heat of it, but the light too - the dancing glow of firelight is really something special I think.

As promised, I've spent some time working on creating a striped sampler using the twelve Fireside colours. This kind of design work makes me insanely happy, and I've been absolutely love love loving watching these colours blend and dance in front of my eyes. This is a seriously harmonious colour palette - rich and warm and very easy on the eye.

As there are only 12 colours in the Fireside yarn pack, a striped blanket made with this pack will turn out shorter than my usual 6ft blankets. In my experience, one ball of Stytlecraft DK weight yarn will comfortably give you six stripes if you follow the suggested starting chains for my stripe patterns (which give a 4ft width). Some patterns where the stripes are narrower (eg the Moorland neat wave or the Dune seashell) will give you seven stripes per ball. This will make sure you have enough yarn left over to create a border at the end.

When making striped blankets, I strongly recommend you get some digital kitchen scales if you don't already have them. They aren't too expensive to buy - I have these ones from Amazon and they are pretty accurate and a great tool for weighing yarn. You can weigh a yarn ball, crochet up a stripe, then weigh the ball again and you'll see how many grams you've used for one stripe. It's a simple technique but really useful.

As a rough guide, a 4ft width blanket will use approx. 12-13g of yarn per stripe.

You will also need to have roughly 20g of yarn left over to create a single border round.

I figured you could use any of my existing patterns (I've listed ten below) to create your own Fireside Stripe blanket. All you need to do is use Cairn (the pale blue) to start and follow the relevant patterns for the number of starting chains, then use the worksheet to know which order to work your colours. 

Trellis Stripe (Sweet Pea) 

Neat Ripple 

Cosy Stripe 

Granny Stripe 

Meadow Stripe 

Spike Stitch (Dahlia) 

Seashell Stripe (Dune) 

Neat Wave (Moorland) 

Woodland Ripple 

Easy Eyelet Ripple (Harbour) 

I've created a stripe order with just 72 stripes (6 of each colour) for the Fireside as this works with the yarn quantities. If you end up with enough yarn to add an extra set of stripes at the end, you can just repeat the colour order again from row 1, does that make sense?

This will obviously give you a shorter length blanket, I'm Guestimating that it'll be somewhere around the 5ft / 150cm length. I hope this doesn't sound too vague, and those of you who have already made some of my striped blankets in SSDK will have enough experience to use your own judgement (helped by the scales!) to work out the number of stripes to make.

Anyhow, here is the link for the PDF worksheet :

FIRESIDE STRIPE WORKSHEET

Well, I hope my waffle has made sense today, please do ask me any questions in the comments and I'll reply to you directly.

And finally - I really hope you enjoy these colours as much as I do, they are lush, aren't they?!

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Here are a few useful links >>

♥ FIRESIDE YARN PACK (includes a 16 page full colour printed pattern)

♥ FIRESIDE TUTORIAL

♥ FIRESIDE TA-DAh BLOG POST

 

Comments

[prabha]

Nice information thanks for sharing...

[Sarah]

Hi Lucy, as always your colour work is lush. You make it so easy for novice crochet lovers to get inspired. Please could you advise what stitch the sampler stripe is as I’d like to do a blanket based on it.
Thanks and keep inspiring

[Teresa Williamson]

Hi,
Just received my yarn pack.
Is there a colorwash that I could use?
Looking for the stripes, colorwash.

Thanks

[Cathy]

Thank you for your beautiful patterns. I am looking forward to making this blanket to use in my new craft/yoga/reading space

[Nadine]

Thank you so much for your lovely designs! I have ordered the yarn and I will be working on the striped version. Could you tell me which stripe pattern you have used for the sample in the photo?

[Donna Edwards]

I meant slip stitch!

[Donna Edwards]

Hi Lucy,
Just started the Fireside and I'm enjoying it. Question: In the joining part, in the corners there is the ship stitch but no ch1 as in the other corners. Is this correct or should there be a ch 1? thanks!!

[Kay]

I love your blog which I have been reading for years.
Your patterns have really helped me get back into crochet. I learned from my grandmother when I was a teenager and wanted to crochet a hippie triangle scarf!
I notice that you almost always use acrylic yarn and not wool/ natural yarns (apart from cotton). What is your reasoning for this?
Thank you
Kay (From New Zealand....we grow wool!)

[CJ]

Gorgeous cosy blanket, and lovely photos of your summer. I have somehow been missing posts as Bloglovin hasn't really been working for me lately. I used to go to the Isle of Wight when I was little, it's lovely there isn't it. I dropped my eldest at uni a week ago, so it has all been a bit of a change here. Lovely to pop in here and see all of your news. CJ xx

[Kay]

I cannot crochet despite trying so hard many times, I just don’t get it. However, I love to read your blog, there’s always so much inspiration, joy, and wonderful colours and creativity. X

[Elizabeth]

I can't get over how beautiful your color palette is. When I first saw the long stripe sample, I just said myself, "wow!" Color, lots of it, rich and deep, melting one into the other. Seriously harmonious indeed. The closest I can come to describing how it makes me feel is how comfort food makes me feel. Brava, Lucy. Brava!

[Sherin Aus🇦🇺]

Thank you so much for the stripe version, while I LOVE your Fireside blanket, after doing your Aria blanket a while ago, the lazy side of me is looking for less ends to weave in!! 😂🙂💕

[Sandra]

Lovely pretty scene, yay for crochet blankets.

How fortunate and lovely to have a fire; it must be reassuring to not be dependent on gas or electric for heat with the horrendous prices making usage a no no. Am shivering here even in all the blankets, which are of course a blessing. Not one jot cosy for many. Autumn doesn't quite work if the damp is inside as well as outside.

Hope things look up for everyone soon.

[Marie]

Thank you Lucy!! Glad I waited for the stripe version, it's gorgeous!
Than you for sharing your talents.
Wondering if you would please share your granny josephine bag on the blog, I've been following this since you started it but never seen the complete version. Please share a Ta-Dah post xxxx

[Susan]

Thank you for the info on how we could work with stripes & I expect "tension" comes into play at times with the finished size. I certainly don't crochet as nice as you, but love the process anyway. I do like the look of that new wool you've used & will have to do a lot of thinking. Take care & hugs from down under.

[Sue]

I absolutely love these fireside colours in the stripey blanket. I’m currently doing your coastal ripple blanket but have also been sampling the hydrangea pattern which I love, so I’m going to have a go at that one too with the fireside colours. Can’t wait to receive my order! Thank you so much for everything you do. Xxx

[Elsie]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the work you do. And for bringing me back to crochet a decade and a half ago. I have 4 blankets in my to-do-queue. But, I had to order this one because of the incredible colors!!
Now I have enough crochet projects to keep me busy until I'm 85!!

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[Tania]

Hi, just wondering about Round 8 of the large square. Should this be done on the right side or the wrong side? Round 7 is on the wrong side and then turn the work but Round 8 also says wrong side. Thanks.

[Gillian selby]

Was wondering what stitch you used in the stripe version ?

[Louise]

Wow. I was just thinking about doing a repeat of last year's Christmas blanket for me as I gave away last years to my daughter. Now I know I have to do this one. Thank you for the pattern I will be ordering the kit this week. Many thanks Lucy.

[Jacqueline Barbera]

This in striped looks lovely what stitch stripe pattern have you used in the photo ?

[Rena]

Thank you for all the effort you put into your patterns and that you try to please everyone's style and preference. Your commitment to help everyone enjoy crochet is wonderful.

[Dawn]

Thank you so much for all the work you always put in to your patterns! I love reading about the whole process:)
It always brightens my day to read your posts.
I really do love you!