Baby Booties

Hello Everyone!

You may remember the slippers I made for four girls this last Christmas. I had adapted them from a pattern made for adult slippers. Well I found a way to adapt them once again to make baby booties. It turns out that I didn't have to adapt them much at all. By using sport or baby yarn and a 4.00 or 3.75mm hook, I could still use the same number of stitches to start them off and just create fewer rows for each section of the booties!

Now you might be wondering why I made so many. Well there are three that have been born in our church congregation since in the last two moths. All three were baby boys. We've had so many baby boys born this last year that I am getting tired of crocheting with boy colours. Hence the addition of some Yellow. I couldn't just make one pair of booties for the babies, since in the past I crocheted blankets. So I decided that making three pair would be a good compromise. And they whip up so much more quickly than blankets.

As you can see these little booties are made using the the Front & Back Post Double Crochet stitches.

The foot length measures 3 1/2 inches, just to give and idea of how tiny and cute these are.

Last night, we had the first of the three baby showers to come, and they where a hit with everyone there! Even the boxes and card that I made to go with them.

Last night I found out that there are a few more babies due through April of this year, and guess what? They are all boys! So much for a break from boy colours. I had started some booties in feminine colours thinking that surely a girl would come along soon. No such luck. So back to the boy colours for the next 3 or 4 babies.

Well, that it for this post. If you would like for me to write down the pattern for these little booties, just make a comment and I will write it out on another post for everyone.

Happy crocheting!

A Vest for my 14 Year Old Grandson

Another Christmas gift to share.

When you are crocheting most of your gifts, what can you make a 14 year old grandson? I made him a pullover for his birthday; I made him an ear band or head band with mittens for Christmas, but what else could I make him? My daughter suggested a vest. So that is what I made him. I think he liked the vest better than his pullover.

I thought I had chosen a pattern that would be easy to work, but it turned out a little more complicated than anticipated because in order to keep the pattern fairly even, it actually had to be changed every so often to keep the 'v' in that pattern evenly spaced. I had to unravel a lot, and after completing saw that I had missed getting some of those 'v's' in the right spot. But overall, it was worth it.

Again, getting close with my camera in the below photos changed the colour of the vest.

Here he is in his PJ's and the vest.

Well, that's the pics for this christmas project. Hope you enjoyed seeing it.

Happy crocheting!

Mittens & Ear Bands for the Grandchildren at Christmas

With Christmas less than a week away, things are pretty busy here, as I am sure it is at your household too. Not only have I been trying to finish up my crocheting of Christmas gifts, but I have started a bit of a freelance design job designing layouts and cards to be made up as kits for Scrapbook Parade. So I have been very, very busy (the reason for not having posted these sooner). I also realized that I have wrapped some projects already, without having taken some photos of them.

Anyway, lets get on with the post of the mittens and ear bands.

Both of these grand-daughters like pink, but the younger of the two often gets purple so that they can't get their things mixed up. So I decided to give a little more pink in this gift by adding just a touch of purple. So one gets pink with blue accents (12 years old), and the other pink with purple accents (10 years old). And my 14 year old grandson gets brown.

All the ear bands are done in a double #4 strand, since I did not have a chunky yarn, and the mittens are done in a single #4 strand.

I ran out of pink when making the ear band so added a mix of purple & white to the ear band. The coloured flowers on the mittens, will help the girls tell their mittens from the other's.

Here is the 12 year old's set, with blue accents.

...And the set for my 14 year old grandson.

I was surprised at how large I had to make his mittens. I did not realize his hands are the size of a small adults!

I hope that they will wear these, because they have those thin little gloves, and usually wear their parka hoods. We shall see what happens.

These have been wrapped up for a while now, and are already under the tree, I noticed that they have been looking at the tags...laugh out loud.

Hoping that you are not racing to complete your crochet projects, like am.

Happy crocheting!

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!

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 - 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.