Just finished this blanket!

I have an eyelet hole maker somewhere, I wonder if that would work?

Apparently a skip blade is the fastest method - there's one in this set which you use with a rotary cutter. I've actually got this set of blades but can I find them? All I can find is the empty packet (worrying in itself ).

My grandmother used to have a hole puncher that she would use to make holes in fabric covered belts and then she'd put the stud thingies in to finish it. I wonder whether you can still buy them? Gonna look.

Something like this:
www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-63637-Expert-Revolving-Punch/dp/B0001K9YL0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441989361&sr=8-1&keywords=fabric+hole+punch

janer

It's lovely! I really like that idea. All I need now is a baby...

Oh good, glad I've inspired someone else Gk . Another way you can do this, instead of the palaver of making all the holes, is to blanket stitch all round first, then you crochet into that. I think it's probably still worth marking with a ruler and disappearing marker, to make sure it's even. I've seen that method used to put a crochet edging onto finer fabric, like quilting cotton for example. That's on my list of things to try!

grey you can teach yourself to crochet via YouTube - really! I did.

indi that is lovely, I'm gonna try it.

That's very pretty - I wish I could crochet.

When you've finished that blanket Gracesgran you must post a picture for us on here - I'll be interested to see your flower squares

Oh it is always about h/w avoidance, isn't it? I am constantly busy doing / making all sorts of things just for that very reason .

Self-healing fleece - you may have made a discovery Indinana

I thought I would just work out how to do some granny squares with flowers in the middle. The squares are worked out from the flowers rather than the flowers stitched on. It was a challenge and now I have to make enough to do another border on the blanket. It's all an excuse not to do the dreaded h....w... (whisper it softly) of course

Gracesgran you can always just finish the blanket and drape it over you - you don't have to keep adding to it .
I made all the holes first - it's pretty difficult poking a crochet hook through otherwise. I used one of those 18" x 6" perspex rules to mark off every quarter inch (about half an inch in from the edge) using a disappearing marker. That's how the crochet is so even. Then I made all the holes with a stitch ripper.
But the funny thing is that when I started doing the crochet I kept coming across 'holes' that had closed up . I think it must be because inevitably I'm handling the fabric and the friction causes the fibres to knit together again! So I had to have the stitch ripper handy.

That is so pretty Indinana.

I am plodding on with a crochet blanket at the moment. Actually plodding sounds as if I am not enjoying it which isn't true. The problem I have is that it keeps me warm while I crochet so I keep adding another round!

Did you make even holes to crochet into or did you just make them as you went round?

How lovely, and so neat and even. I think I would run out of patience pretty quickly. I have seen these patterns too, but have never attempted one. Good for you Indinana.

Great idea - that looks really pretty.

Lovely. Do you have to pierce holes in the fleece and how do you it?

That's so pretty!. Clever girl.