Rainbow blankets galore!!!

Now I am looking forward to a long weekend of crafting ahead - got one baby blanket to finish crocheting for a lovely new baby called Violet.......so hence the blanket is all shades of Violet colours, lets hope she likes it.  I'm also half way through a wedding anniversary present for my best friend - this year is the year of cotton - so wool is a close enough to cotton right???, any excuse for a crochet marathon.  The blanket is all rainbow colours.

These rainbow blankets have a special significance to me and my family.  Ever since I lost my dad a few years back, I have come to associate rainbows with him, whenever I felt really down and sad, somehow a rainbow would always appear....hence the title of the blog which follows this - as he is always sending me rainbows when I really need him.  So with this in mind I decided to crochet a large granny square rainbow blanket for my mam for Mother's Day this year, and for my two sisters - so we would always have a rainbow with us when ever we needed to feel close to him.