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!

My First Shrug

Hello Everyone!

Today marks the start of showing things that I have worked on for Christmas gifts! The first item is a first for me. I came across something called a 'shrug' and while it is not something that I would wear out of the comfort of my home, it is something that is easy to make, which means faster. Faster is what I need when I'm pretty much crocheting all of the Christmas gifts this year.

This shrug is made for my 12 year old step-grand-daughter, and is definitely her style.

The pattern called for a much larger hook (7mm) than I thought, but it made the loosely crocheted article so soft!

Here is a closer look at the ribbing.

...and at the Susette stitch which is the large rectangle that starts it all.

In the making of this shrug, I ran out of this gray yarn and ended up using a very dark gray for the sleeves.

I had so much fun making this, that I decided to make one for daughter as well. Hers will be a heather blue and I'll share that you when I have completed it.

Have you made a shrug before?

Well, it's very late, or maybe I should say early, and it's way past time for me to try and get some sleep.

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!

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!