While I was strolling through the green tea plantation at the O’Sulloc Tea Museum in Jeju, South Korea, the parallel lines of the green tea shrubs were imprinted in my mind. Those neat lines of alternating colors transformed into this blanket design.

Squares get smaller as they progress from the centre out in this granny square blanket with a distinctive twist. In DK weight yarn, it is sized for a baby or small child, but a larger blanket can be made with thicker yarn weights.

Show your love through this granny square blanket with the image of a heart. Using DK yarn, this is sized for a baby or small child, but it can be easily made adapted to other sizes by changing the yarn or hook size, or by changing the number of squares.

Back in 2015, I got involved with Zentangle, which is essentially a way of drawing that even people with little drawing skills can master. As described on its website, Zentangle is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns.

Shophouses were a distinct part of Singapore’s, and much of Southeast Asia’s, architectural landscape in the pre-WWII era. These buildings constructed between the 1840s and 1960s were used both as homes and for business. A unique feature is the five-foot way, literally a five-foot pedestrian walkway, outside rows of shophouses.

Inspired by the beautiful cherry blossoms I saw in Japan, Rebirth is a crochet square featuring a central floral and starburst pattern with surrounding popcorns.