Baby Blanket Complete

So as promised here is the new baby blanket I have *just* finished.  I literally just sewed in all the ends.

(a little stitching while reading my Nook)

I made this for one of my best girlfriends who will be welcoming baby BOY #3 into their family.  We now officially have enough boys between the two of us for a baseball team.  (Right?  I think you need 6?)  Anywho, I hope she likes this.

She very much dislikes all of my thrifty granny-chic decorating, she much prefers things straight out of PB.  Which amazes me because I can find super similar things at the thrift.  Oh well to each his own.  All of the aforementioned dislikes brings me as to why I decided to make this blanket.  I figure that chevron patterns are popping up everywhere.  I personally LOVE a good graphic chevron!!  Plus a good ole granny zig zag really never goes out of style.   I also feel like the addition of the charcoal gray adds an ultra modern, non-baby-ish, feel to the entire blanket.

Without further ado, drumroll please...

I give you baby boy #3 chevron blanket... In all of it's glory!!

On my hook...

Well hello there... I am here and still kicking.  We are snowed in so I thought I would share what has been and is on my crochet hook as of late!!

small sweet hat for a new baby girl....

leg warmers for another friends little girl... 

cute crochet hat for my niece... 

Plus a few other hats I forgot to take pictures of... :)  I was in too much of a hurry to snap them... 

PLUS!!!!!

I have one more big thing hanging on the good ole hook right now that I can't wait to share with you!!  It is for one of my best friends and as soon as it is "given" to her and baby Max I will show pictures!!  Until then... 

African Flower Hexagon Baby Blanket Complete

PHEW!!!!!!!!!!  That was insane!!  I worked on this project for a long few months and never thought I would finish.  Thank goodness I did finish just in time, ( like just a few hours) before the baby shower this past Sunday.  Momma loved it and I liked being the only person there giving a handmade item.  Seriously I spent months on this blanket and with every stitch I prayed and wished amazing things for this sweet little girl that we haven't even met yet.  Other than time spent, with every stitch there is love, hope and happiness woven into that blanket that you can't get when you hurriedly run into a store to grab items last minute for a baby shower.  I am so proud to have actually completed my first actual gift and can't wait to get busy on the rest.

Here are a few pictures of the finished product!!!

Congrats and good luck friends on your precious baby girl's arrival in late October!!!


I find out in about an hour and a half what my best friend will be having in the early spring so here we go again!!!!  So EXCITED!!!!!!!!!

New work...

Here is a sneak peak at something fun I just started today... I think it is going to turn out beautifully!!!  I can't wait to see it all come together.. 

(thank you cell phone for crappy picture quality... believe me it is so pretty!!)

Phew...

I finally finished the cabled scarf for my one of my friends...  It was a doozy.  Not that it was hard it was only time consuming... It ended up measuring over 5 feet long and was actually quite pretty.  She picked a cranberry red and the sheen on the scarf and the huge cable running down the center will be so pretty peeking out from behind a winter coat.  

If I could just figure out how to keep the edges from curling without having to crochet around the thing I would be 100% satisfied with how it turned out... Anyone have any suggestions?

Although my prayer is that we will be able to put away our winter coats very very soon.... I love snow but I am soooo ready for spring... 

I have almost decided that I like to crochet more.  It just seems more soothing to me.  Now that I have taught myself the basics of both crafts I just seem to gravitate towards the crocheting more so than the knitting.  I do like to knit, don't get me wrong, it just seems that mistakes are harder to fix and it takes quite a lot more time to finish something if I am knitting it.  I tend to lose interest in anything that takes longer than a week's time.  I love the look of a knit, the finished product always looks more polished to me.  But I do love, love the vintage-ness look that crocheting gives you.  I associate crocheting with my grandmother as she is the first one to expose me to the craft.  I assume that is why I feel a tie to it in a way I do not knitting.  

Anyway, here is a quick look at my next project already underway... I picked up this quick square from a blog I frequent every.single.day.  If you have a chance you should stop by and check out Ms. Lucy @ Attic 24.  Her house is full of very gorgeous, delicious, colorful wonderfulness... Catch my drift.  She does things with colors that I wish I were brave enough to do... I love going over there it brings a little sunshine to my day.  All of that said I took her tutorial for the Summer Garden Granny Square as the center and am making it into one giant square for a quick afghan.  

As you can see the second square (on the left) turned out a little better than the first try (on the right)

I bought the yarn on sale at Michael's a while back and wanted to do something quick with it... So here we go on this adventure... I started the afghan yesterday and it seems to be coming together nicely (and rather quickly).  I think I have the basic color repetition figured out so I am diving headfirst into this thing.

And here it is this morning... She has grown quite considerably...

Wish me luck....