New Stylecraft Sunstar CAL

There’s a new and exciting Crochet Along (CAL) being released by Stylecraft next week and we’re delighted to share the details with you!

The CAL will be released in 7 parts over 3 months, starting on the 3rd September. The patterns will be available to download for free from the Stylecraft website, at www.stylecraft-yarns.co.uk. The gorgeous Sunstar Blanket pattern has been designed by Jo Smith and is available in three beautiful and distinctive colourways - My Sun and Stars, My Vintage and My Country Garden.

Jo Smith explains how the design ‘‘…started with a sun in the sky, the triangles were added as an experiment and I liked them so then it just needed to be softened by adding circles which looked to me like planets. Therefore it became a sun in the middle with planets around. My imagination saw the sun in the night sky.”

The first and original colourway design by Jo Smith is My Sun and Stars. It includes rich jewel shades of pinks, purples and blues and is knitted using Stylecraft Batik DK and Stylecraft Life DK. This colourway reflects the design quite literally, with the yellows and reds for the sun, surrounded by a light blue sky and then again by a darker and deeper sky, suggesting space. The darker blue is then repeated around the edge of the blanket, with purple, blue, red and yellow ‘planets’ set into it.

The colours for My Vintage were also chosen by Jo Smith and were inspired this time by vintage rugs and tiles reminiscent of Eastern designs, their colours washed and faded over time. The colour palette is a mix of subtle yellows and greens combined with rich tones of red and deep purples. This colourway is knitted in Stylecraft Batik DK, Stylecraft Batik Elements and Stylecraft Life DK.

The My Country Garden colourway has been chosen by blogger Heather from The Patchwork Heart and is a pretty palette of blue and purple tones, using the Stylecraft Special DK range. Heather explains how the palette was inspired by her dream of living in a cottage and growing her own flowers to fill her home with. She explains how “…Picking shades for a colour recipe which evoked this dream, gave me weeks of pleasure, as I hooked these pretty shades together. It is my hope that you too will have a wonderful adventure as you work with the Country Garden colour recipe.”

Get your pack from only £23.49 >>

My Sun and Stars

My Vintage

My Country Garden

To join in with the CAL simply pick up your colour pack in your favourite colourway and download the free patterns from the Stylecraft website www.stylecraft-yarns.co.uk, starting from the 3rd September. You can also share your progress on our Facebook page Crochet Along with The Knitting Network, as well as on the Official Stylecraft Yarns CAL group, where you can also keep up to date with all the news about the CAL.

Happy hooking!