Moving Soon!

9 days until we no longer own our first home.  The pressure is on!  I will be taking a little break from blogging/crochet until we get into the new house.  I am kinda forced to since my yarn is all packed away.  :( 
My WIP baby blanket will have to be finished in May as well as my WIP daffodil wreath. 
I am excited for the time ahead and hope the move is not too stressful.  Once we get into the new home I will have a craft room all to myself.... well that is my plan but the hubby has been talking about a joint craft/office space.  We will see.

 

So bye bye for a couple weeks.  If you are looking for something to read here are a few of my favorite blogs:

 

You should check out Natasja of Crochettime who has been Yarnbombing recently.

 

Lucy of Attic 24 is so inspiring with all her hooky fun.

 

Here is a blog I am newly following, The Green Dragon Fly. I love Janette's pictures.

 

Dinkidots is great for all sorts of crafty ideas.

 

All About Ami is super fun to see all of Stephanie's little creations, including a new baby girl!

 

 

 

Daffodil Wreath! So exciting!

I have been inspired by Lucy of Attic 24!  And distracted from finishing the baby blanket again.... Ooopsies!

 

Lucy is making a Easter wreath out of all sorts of beautiful crocheted flowers.  I have really enjoyed seeing her daffodils and wanted to make some for myself as soon as she put the pattern up (here).  I have decided that my wreath will be a spring time wreath.  I will make lots of daffodils and a green wreath. I am very excited to see it come together.   
 

 

I think I will pull some more inspiration from the construction of a spring time wreath Lucy worked on a while ago.

 

You know, its very hard to stick to one project when my fingers just want to keep trying new crochet things.

Crochet Baby Blanket

Hello all, so sorry to keep you waiting....

 

I am still working on finishing the baby blanket edging.  I am trying to find the perfect edging for this blanket.  Selling the house, getting started on removing clutter from the house, joining and learning all about Pintrest and a 1000 piece puzzle have all slowed my progress down on finishing this blanket. 

Thankfully, my friend is due in May. 

I still have some time to get the blanket done.  :)

Nickel for your thoughts?

Any thoughts on what type of boarder I should do?  Or what colour I should use?  Should I stick with the colours that are in the blanket?  Or add others? Use the granny square pattern and just continue that way?  Or do some type of fancy boarder? 

I have not done a boarder before... so if there are any tips/ideas out there for granny square blanket boarders I would love to hear them.

So far I have just done two rounds of single crochet in white.

 

When Matt of According To Matt, made his Glorious Granny Greatness!!!,  that was when I knew I wanted to someday be making a granny square blanket.
I hope mine turns out just as great!

Granny Square Blanket

Here are all the 49 squares that will make up the blanket.

 

The baby blanket is coming along very nicely.  It seems that when I started joining the squares they just flew together. 

I could not work on this on the bus (I think) any blanket would be too big to bring out on a bus.  Everyone around me might want to snuggle in.  I should be done shortly.  I'll now have lots of end to weave in.  But that's nice busy work.

 

Soon it will be time to experiment with the boarder.

I even had time to whip up an IPod Touch cover made from two granny rectangles.  This, I was able to make on the bus.  :)

 

Just a few square left to attach... then onto the boarder.

 

Commitment Issues All Sorted Out

I have been making lots of granny squares with no real direction.  I just wanted to get better at the Granny Square.  I am using this beautiful sport weight yarn that I bought from a tent sale at my local yarn store.  Pink, Purple and White.

 

I have a friend due in May so I have decided to make a baby blanket for her.  I found a nice pattern to make the granny squares from the Bernat website.  #411 Bernat Softee Baby Double Diamond Crochet Blanket.  I am going to change up the location of colours in the blanket because I want to make it bigger than this pattern and pink will be my main colour. 

17 Pink squares, 16 Purple squares, 16 White squares.

 

 

Pictures of more squares to follow soon.

The blanket is 49 squares.

Then I am going to add a border.