Diamond Berry Inspired

If you haven't seen any of my past posts, you will not know that one of my favourite go-to blogs is Daisy Farm Crafts. Today's baby blanket I am sharing with you is inspired by their Diamond Berry Stitch blanket.

In my practise swatch, I decided I wanted more of the Diamond Berry on the baby blanket I was going to make, so I changed up the pattern a bit to used a larger Diamond of Berries. This is blanket that I posted a few days ago letting you know it was a project I working on.

So, let's have a look at it shall we.

The diamond pattern on the Daisy Farm blanket goes to three berries wide; I made mine five berries wide.

Although, not perfect, I really love how this blanket turned out.

I was tempted to do the bauble edging again, but decided to go with a Seed Stitch/Moss Stitch border and accent all the blue with a cream coloured slip stitch line.

I think this would create a lovely adult Afghan/Blanket. May try it some time.

A closer look...

I am glad I added that cream slip stitch to the border.

Happy crocheting!

Another Baby Boy Blanket

Hello everyone!

The inspiration for this blanket, once again, came from Daisy Farm Crafts from this posted blanket.

While I did not follow the blanket pattern exactly due to the yarn leftovers I wanted to use up, it was still the inspiration for the blanket. I love the stitch used in the yellow yarn. Kind of like a "V" stitch but using Half Double Crochet. The green is 2 rows of Half Double Herringbone, and the blue is a single row of single crochet.

I love using Tiffany's Bauble edge on many of my baby blankets. It's just so fun!

The colours did not come out too well on some of the close up photos, but you see the stitches...

I really like the stitch used for the yellow yarn, here. It's like a HDC 'V' stitch.  The green is done in a Half Double Herringbone stitch.

At the baby showers, the bauble edging that Tiffany shows on her blog, is quite a hit. It is called the Dot Border Stitch on their blog.

This is the third baby blanket I have made with these colours. A lot of yarn I inherited were in these colours. The blue, and the green are now gone, but I still have more in this yellow and a brighter yellow too.

Thank you for stopping by to have a look at more of my crocheting.

Have a great week!

A Work In Progress & Unraveling

Hi Everyone!

Do you ever find that some projects you work on go along well without a hitch? Those are great projects! Then there are some with the odd little mistake that you catch soon enough and only have to unravel a few stitches. Those are good projects too.  Then there is the odd project that you find you are constantly unraveling to correct mistakes. Or, the projects where you do not catch the mistake until much, much later and have the frustration of having to unravel nearly the entire project? I have had some projects that I have had to nearly unravel the entire project to correct a mistake.

Some mistakes you can leave as it does not effect the project in any noticeable way, while others a single mistake can have the opposite effect. It does ruin the project, and you start to notice the pattern is askew or something doesn't line up right. Take one of my current projects; a baby blanket inspired by Hannah's Diamond Berry Stitch blanket.  I worked a whole diamond pattern section more than you see here, before noticing something was wrong. The thing is I was nearly done! I had only one more diamond section to go! (the blanket is actually more blue than it shows here)

Perhaps the problem is that I changed the pattern up a bit by creating a larger diamond pattern. When I laid out the blanket on a flat surface, I noticed that the blanket was getting narrower. My tension had not changed, so what was the problem? I counted the number of stitches and found that I had somehow dropped 8 stitches! Can you believe that? How did I not notice it before?

I reasoned that it was because I had stopped counting my stitches and was just going by how the berries were lining up. So, yup, I had to unravel nearly the entire blanket! I did a bit at a time and counted stitches. Slowly I got to where I needed to be with the correct amount of stitches.

Lesson learned? Don't be over confident and count a row of stitches every so often.

I look forward to getting back to this project and sharing the completed blanket with you, but for now I need to put it aside and finish a blanket I am making for my daughter's birthday in three weeks. I started it in March, but when all the babies in our church were being born, I put it aside to make baby blankets. Now I need to put them aside to complete what I started. This is where I left off on her blanket in June.

I am designing my own stripe pattern for this blanket. In the photo above, I am just a little past half way.

A closer look at the Harlequin stitches that were inspired from this Daisy Farm Crafts baby blanket.

It's a real big blanket! I wanted it to be large enough for my daughter and son-in-law to cuddle in together when they watch a movie, or to fit on their queen size bed. So will I get it done by October 22nd?

Thank you for joining me again today. And please, feel free to share some of you unraveling experiences, and what you learned from it, in a comment.

Happy crocheting!

All White Baby Griddle Stitch Blanket

Welcome Back Everyone!

I mentioned a few posts ago when talking about the pullover I made for my grandson, that one of my favourite crochet stitches is the 'griddle' stitch. It looks good in a 3, 4 or 5 weight yarn. I haven't tried it in any other yarn weight yet.

Another thing that I like is 'all white'. Even on my other blogs you will find a few all white cards that I created. It just looks so beautiful.

This blanket I created myself without a pattern, and is a little bit larger than my other baby blankets.

I also really like how the edging turned out.

EDGING

Four rows of : 1single crochet, skip 1, and repeat with 1 single crochet, chain 1, 1 single crochet in the same stitch at each corner.
Two rows of: 1 single crochet, chain 3, skip 1 & 1 single crochet. In the corners : ...sorry I can't remember and can't quite see it well enough to give you how I did the corners.

Did you notice the shiny thread throughout the yarn? It's real pretty.

So what do you think about an all white blanket?

Thank you for stopping by, and happy crocheting!

Blue & Cream Dash Baby Blanket

Hello Everyone!

In our church there are so many babies being born! It is a wonderful thing!  Thirteen babies since March 2019, and 2 more due before then of the year! Even if I am busy like crazy trying to make blankets for these new little ones, I am loving it! I have already made some that I did not think to take photos of, but I have recently started to do that.

I mentioned in the previous baby blanket posts that I love going to Daisy Farm Crafts where she has some great baby blanket tutorials. This blanket is called the  Modern Dash Baby Blanket. I used a nice blue and cream coloured (4) yarn.

It is supper easy to make; though I wish my ribbing edge turned out better. It seems a bit tight. I think next time I try the ribbed edging I will add more stitches around the edge.

Here's a closer look. You can see that the blanket is entirely Half Double Crochet (HDC) with that ribbed edge I mentioned.

Hope you liked seeing the blanket, and be be sure to check out Daisy Farm Crafts!

Happy crocheting!

Baby Blanket - White & Pink

In the last post I mentioned how much I love Daisy Farm Crafts. The blanket I am showing you today, came from her blog. I just did a different edging to the blanket. Obviously with the colour choice this blanket is created for a baby girl. She has not been born yet, but it is ready for the day she arrives.

I loved learning how to do the Herringbone Stitch! I like the look of it better than a Double Crochet.
I just realized that I did not take a photo of the blanket fully laid out! But it is nearly the same size as the previous blanket I shared with you.

I will have to consider a better way of photographing the baby blankets I make. Here is a closer look.

And closer still.

I love the baubles in the pattern as well as around the edge. I can just picture little baby hands trying to grab them once she is able to do so.

Have fun with your crocheting!

Baby Blanket - Green, Blue, Yellow

Being new to Lethbridge, and in a new Church congregation, we are finding that there are many babies being born! As a matter of fact, I made two that I did not have time to take photos of! So you will miss out on seeing them. They were both for baby girls, and using the same yarns that my sister had given me - coral, creamy yellow, and cream. It was the first time I made a bauble edge on a blanket, and I loved it so much I have done it again. You'll see it on today's blanket.

The one I am showing you today is for a baby boy. Now, In amongst all the yarn I have inherited I do not have any baby yarn. But I thought a worst yarn would be OK if a flannel blanket is under it in the crib, or would be great for the stroller or car seat.

In trying to remember stitches, etc., I came across a blog and Youtube channel that I just love! I will share the links with you at the end of this post. Anyway, that is where I learned how to crochet multiple colours carrying the yarn so that you can make a lovely check/gingham look.

Unfortunately the colours did not come out nicely, but you get a better idea of the entire blanket look.
Do you love the bauble edging as much as I do?

Links

• Blog - Daisy Farm Crafts - She has many beautiful Baby Blankets, Baby Hooded Cardigans, and even adult Mittens, Scarves, and Toques (hats).
• Youtube Channel - Daisy Farm Crafts - Great tutorials, and they keep getting better, too.

Hope you enjoy them too if you haven't already been there.