Crochet Baby Blanket

I made this cute little blanket for my newest nephew, Jameson.  I will post more pictures, that will, hopefully, be cuter, when my sister sends me some with the little man himself.  

Yes, I know there are a lot of texture pictures, but the texture is certainly the best thing about this blanket, besides the navy blue stripes.  :)

 I found the pattern I used from this book, which has been a favorite of mine recently.

This is the blanket I based mine on.  The pattern ended up being pretty small, but I enlarged it.  I LOVE the blanket in the photo, but I really wanted to include navy blue in the blanket for my sister, Julie, and her bundle of joy. 

This how I wrapped up the blanket to send.  I braided the yarns I used on the blanket to make a matching bow, and it turned out really cute. 

I hope you have enjoyed this post - It feels so good to have things to post about, instead of having a number of unfinished projects!  Please feel FREE to leave comments, as they are SO much fun to read, and potentially helpful as well! ;)

Preemie Crochet Blanket to Match Dress

Remember this dress?

Here is the blanket to go with it.

Just one giant granny square.

Crochet Mug Cozies

 For my sister Julie's birthday, I purchased a set of 12 plain white mugs, knowing she would like those best, and made colorful cozies for them.  

 I had no pattern for these, but it wasn't too hard to come up with one on my own.

I used a comfy, worsted weight, cotton blend yarn that I found on knitpicks.com, that I really like.  It comes in little skeins (109 yards), but is fairly affordable, so really worth it!  Plus the colors are fantastic! :)  Here are some examples from their website.

 I had a lot of fun with this project.  Working with the buttons was fun, and is sort of a new thing for me.  I feel like I want to use buttons on everything now. :)

 The reason I wanted to do 12 mugs is that my sister and her husband have 9 beautiful kids.  I wanted there to be enough for everyone, and have a spare, in case there is another child in their future.  

I really like wood buttons for my sister, and the subtle leaves on them, I thought, were a really nice touch.  

Preemie Crochet Dress

A friend of mine, her sister recently had a baby quite early.  She weighs less than two pounds I'm told, and is fighting hard.  My friend wanted to get her a dress, and was having trouble finding one.  I offered to help her out, and this is what I came up with.  I designed it myself, I think it's pretty darling.

 My friend really wanted it done in a mint color.

 No, I'm not crazy.  The spoon is in the picture so you can really see the size of the dress, and how small it is.

 I really like the white scallop trim along the bottom of the dress.

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I thought the pink and white would be nice little accents.  The buttons turned out very cute. :)  I will be making a blanket to go along with it, and I'm thinking some bloomers as well.  I'll post more photos as I have them.

Jameson in His Sweater, Part II

My sister, Julie, sent me a few more photos of Jameson in the sweater I crocheted.

Enjoy the cuteness! :)

 

Crochet Baby Blanket

Ladies and Gents, it's here!  It's done, and has been brought into existence!!!!  

I hope you enjoy the very hard fruits of my labor, because I couldn't be more pleased with it. 

I made this blanket for Autumn, my friend Alisa's darling daughter.  I started it when she was born in January 2014.  So she just turned a year, and my procrastinating self finally pulled it together and finished this beauty up.  After all, I didn't want Autumn to be in High School by the time it was done...  

 I made this blanket using Lily Sugar 'N Cream cotton yarn, which is a favorite of mine to work with.

 I know there are a lot of photos, but it's hard not to post them, just for the detail work.  

 Autumn's nursery theme is Winnie the Pooh, which I really wanted to tie into the blanket somehow.  I found this really cute ribbon online. :) 

 Once I was done with the blocks, it must have taken me five or more hours just to figure out what order I wanted them to go in.  It drove me nuts, because nothing felt like the flow was totally perfect.  I like what I ended up with, but might have planned it slightly differently had I the foresight of the block placement problem I had.  

This is the book that I used for square patterns.  I used my own color scheme, of course.  I picked 10 squares, and made two of each, in a different color scheme from the other.  So, there are 20 blocks in total, and it's a little bigger than crib size.  Altogether, it took between 90 and 100 hours to complete.

 Here's the little lady, Autumn, enjoying the blanket. She certainly knew it was for her, and she seemed to like it. :)

Love you Alisa!  I am SO happy for you and Canyon both.  Autumn is lovely!