Category: Blankets

  • Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 8, Border Motifs

    Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 8, Border Motifs

    For the last official and 8th week the Festival of Lights CAL I will show you how to make the border. Don’t worry, even though this is the last official week of the CAL that just means it is the last pattern release day. The patterns, blogs posts, video tutorials will remain available and free…

  • Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 7, Joining Motifs

    Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 7, Joining Motifs

    For the Festival of Lights CAL for Week 7 I am finally going to talk about Joining (and Blocking). On here and in the video tutorial and this week I go into a lot of detail about how I like to block the motifs and the joining method, including some tips for troubleshooting if/when you…

  • Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 6, Extended Diamond Motifs

    Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 6, Extended Diamond Motifs

    Happy CAL day!  This is the last week of motifs and there are only 8 of them to make. We will finish up the motifs by making the Extended Diamonds.  This motif may look familiar to you because they are the Popcorn diamond motif with an extra few rows added to them. These extra-large diamonds…

  • Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 4, Popcorn Diamond Motifs

    Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 4, Popcorn Diamond Motifs

    It’s CAL day again!  This week we are making all the Popcorn Diamonds.  This motif is about the texture and the shape. We will be using a lot of the same tricks to get nice pointy corners that were used in weeks 1&2 with the triangles, and it is also full of back post stitches…

  • Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 3, Square Motifs

    Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 3, Square Motifs

    It’s CAL day again!  This week we are making all the squares.  The triangle motif was all about the shape, the square motif is all about the texture.  It is full of back post stitches and popcorn stitches.  Take a moment to read the tips on gauge this week as we now need to make…

  • Main Information Page: Scheepjes Festival Of Lights CAL

    Main Information Page: Scheepjes Festival Of Lights CAL

    Welcome to my main page for the Scheepjes CAL 2024: Festival of Lights!  Here you will find lots of important information and helpful tips and tricks.  Don’t worry if this is a lot of information at once, I will also be posting helpful tips and progress pictures for each part of the CAL along with…

  • Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 1 & 2, Triangles Motifs

    Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 1 & 2, Triangles Motifs

    Hooray!  It’s CAL Day!!!  Welcome to the official start of the Scheepjes Festival of lights CAL.  For the first part of the CAL we will be working on the triangle motifs.  There are a lot of them, so this section is going to span over two weeks.  The written PDF of the pattern can be…

  • Bonus Post: Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL

    Bonus Post: Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL

    WOW!  Thank you all so much for the positive response to the Festival of Lights CAL announcement.  Since there was so much excitement and I was excited, I took some time to compile a list of answers for some of the more common questions and concerns that I have been seeing. Let jump right in!…

  • Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL Announcement

    Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL Announcement

    EEEEEEEK!!, I have been holding on to this exciting news for a long time now and today I finally get to share with everyone!  I am the designer for the final Scheepjes CAL for 2024, Festival of Lights.  For me, a highlight of the Scheepjes community is the big annual CAL. In the Scheepjes Facebook…

  • Beautiful Circles Blanket 

    Beautiful Circles Blanket 

    The Beautiful circle blanket is composed of 2 different circle patterns ending at different points to make 5 different motifs.  The motifs are textured with back post stitches, Popcorn stitches, and Puff stitches.  The circles are joined with a lacey join and finished with a basic border.  I made my full blanket 46 x 84in,…