We invited members of the East London Crochet group, new and old, to come together and use each of their individual styles to each design a strip that can be joined together to create a single bed size blanket, this is Strip 1 designed by Mary Brooks.

The patterns will be released monthly on the first Tuesday of the month GMT time, the strips do not have to be joined in order of their release.

All of our samples have been made in DK yarn on a 4.5mm hook which makes approx. a 15cm by 120cm strip.

For each strip you will need approx. 205m of DK yarn, of each of two strongly contrasting colours.

This is voice 5 by Susan Janes who s one of our more recent members of the East London Crochet Group who has come up with three options for this strip.

For those more experienced in this technique it is also a great design to play around with colour changes.