April's almost here!

Hello, Gemma here, bringing you the April temperature recording chart (you can find a link to it below) and confessing to have fallen behind with my blanket! Something had to give over the last month and prioritising my Bohemian Blooms blanket after having neglected it for quite a while seemed like the right thing to do. My poor old hands can't crochet for hours on end these days. The school holidays are approaching though, so I'm hoping for lots of extra time to work on my squares. 

You can download the April temperature chart here.

We've had some crazy fluctuations in temperature this month here in North London, reaching the dizzying heights of 17 degrees celcius back in the second week of March, before dropping back to 7 degrees a few days later.  I'm a couple of weeks behind now on my squares but have been diligently recording the daily temperatures. There's definitely going to be an interesting 'blip' in the colours on the blanket, showing that unusually warm week in the early part of the month. 

If you have been doing the join as you go method with your squares you should now be getting a sense of how large the blanket is going to be as you will be well along your second strip of motifs now (assuming of course, you are keeping up, unlike me!). Here are a couple of progress pics of my blanket so far. I'm a couple of weeks behind, although that only translates into two squares, so when I look at it like that, it's not really a big deal is it?

It's a glorious day today, I have washing blowing on the line outside. It's slightly too windy to be comfortable for working in the garden but the sky is clear and blue, just lovely. I wonder if Emma has her washing out... She mentioned she was looking forward to that in last month's blog. I feel very middle-aged saying it but there's nothing quite like washing that's had a good blow on the line! I think April is one of my favourite months.

Do share pics of your progress on our social media channels and don't forget to use the hashtag #janiecrowtempblanket25 so we can easily find your posts. 

Until next month, happy hooking!