In the blanket ‘Maytime’ I made my own garden in crochet, thinking of my new ‘backyard’ that now has turned into a vegetable garden. For me, flowers have always meant happiness, but now, flowers, or better said: plants, also mean food. Double happiness!!

Maytime will be published as a free CAL. The Introduction has been released today, March 27th, 2025. The 17 parts of the pattern will be published weekly, starting on May 1st 2025.

Let me (re)introduce to you our amazing Haaksteek team translators and testers. Most of them have been in our Haaksteek team for years now, but we also were happy to welcome some new members to our team.

Tania Leis, Hester du Plessis, Audrey Muller, Maja Volf, Marita Kristensen, Mirjam Annaars, Caroline Tigchelaar, Dionne van Ginneken-Mol, Joke Vandecasteele, Brenda Krause, Carol Gabbert, Johanna Salo, Arja Seppäläinen, Kaisa Tasala, Lucie Mathieu, Marie-José Lamontagne, Sam Floranceau Aspect
Heidrun Liegmann, Renate Schattschneider, Silke Karp,
Sabrina Milani, Debora Fior, Lynda Hernandez, Elizabeth Pintado-Díaz, Julia Pazols, Rubia Khawaja, Gul Ammar.

Thank you my dear crochet sisters, without you I would be lost!

Maytime will be published in no less than 11 languages!
’Our’ all-time Tania Leis again has made complete videos of each part.
Doris van der Waals, a wonderful designer herself, owns a little online shop: Haakhuis.nl. She has composed 4 different kits for you,
The links to the Introductions and later on for the parts can be found in my website:
https://haaksteek.nl/en/patterns/cal2025/pattern-files/
https://haaksteek.nl/nl/patterns/cal2025/pattern-files/

We also have a Haaksteek Facebook group, where you can show the progress of your Maytime, admire the creations of others and where you can be helped if needed: https://www.facebook.com/groups/383731435363230

My dear crochet friend Angelstarknit again offered to host this new CAL here on Ravelry in her wonderful group https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/colourful-cals-kals--proj...