Making Good Use: Warm Weekend Weather = Winter Wollens Washing

09/13/2012

Warm Weekend Weather = Winter Wollens Washing

We had such a gloriously hot and sunny weekend that it prompted me to get out the winter woollens - hats, scarves, gloves and get them all washed and dried whilst the going was good. Not content with that, I also gave some of the knitted and patchwork blankets a good wash too.

I knitted this patchwork blanket four years ago and it has proved useful time and time again on chilly evenings. It's just the thing for putting over your legs for a bit of extra warmth - especially on those autumn evenings when it's not cold enough to put the central heating on. I knitted it up from all sorts of odds and ends of wool that I got from charity shops and it took me most of that summer (and approx. £15.00) to complete. I love having it draped over me on cold winter days and remembering how nice and warm the weather was and how light and bright the evenings were when I was actually knitting it.

This quilted blanket tends to live on the bed in the winter and is quite handy for giving just a bit of extra warmth when it's really nippy at night. I think I made this one about three years ago. The front was made from a pile of patchwork pieces my Mum found in one of her wardrobes, the back is a piece of vintage sheeting that I had in my stash and the 'batting' is an Ikea picnic blanket that I got in a charity shop years ago. This one cost pennies to make and came together really nicely. The gorgeous colours and prints warm up any winter's night.