Crocheted Baby Blanket: Ivory and Tan

I started this blanket a few months ago It's been sitting on my file cabinet for far too long waiting to be finished. Knowing karate will be over soon (promise this will make sense) I took the crochet hook firmly in hand and told myself to get it done!

The only thing needing to be finished was the border and I was running out of both colors of yarn pretty fast. So I came up with a really simple pattern of chains that turned out surprisingly feminine.
This is the first time I've used these two colors together and I LOVE IT!!! They're so soft and soothing, as is the texture of the yarn itself (Caron Simply Soft, my favorite).

Here's a closer look at the border. I did one set of [chain 3, slip stitch] with the ivory, went behind it with the tan color [chain 5, slip stitch] between the ivory, and followed up top with one more row of the ivory doing a pattern to hook all the chains together.

Crocheted Baby Blanket, Brown and Yellow

Was your initial thought on seeing the words "brown and yellow" along the lines of a very uncertain, "Okaaaaay." Sometimes I look at two bunches of yarn and while holding them side by side think, "That'll be so pretty!" only to later think, "Um, no."

So when I started this project I thought to myself, "I sure hope this turns out pretty." Know what? I think it did. I finished it just last night for my brand new niece who is supposedly on her way to being born right now!♥♥♥ I think she may have been waiting for me to finish her "Kiki" as her siblings have nicknamed these blankets.


I really had no idea what sort of border I would put on this one, and undid the stitches many a time before I found something I really found very pleasing to my eye. They sort of remind me of flowers or half-suns.

In any case, I'm SO hoping little Maddie will be so excited to tangle her fingers and toes in this blankie ♥

Crochet Bookmarks and Blanket

Hey all! It's been a while since I last posted on my creativity blog, and yet I've been so creative lately :D I thought I'd show you a little of what I've been working on. Some of you may remember the baby blanket I made for my brand new niece a few months ago. Well my mother asked if I could make one for someone who's also having a baby. Here's how it turned out.

Hmm. The pictures are a little dark. Sorry about that.

I had fun playing with the border on this one, and think it turned out WAY cute :)

My other project lately has been bookmarks. That's right BOOKMARKS! I roamed through the internet looking for free bookmark ideas, and there were two that popped out at me. Here's the first - I love the loops in them.

Pretty, don't you think? Here's the other one:

To finish these off I'll thread a ribbon through the middle. I'm excited with how delicate and feminine they're looking.

So there you go! My newest projects. Hope you enjoyed them ♥

Crocheted Baby Blanket

Okay so if your name is Melanie you probably shouldn't be looking at this until after I send it to you :) That being said, I recently finished crocheting a blanket for my new niece, who will be making an appearance in June (hooray!!!).

I got the pattern for these super easy blankets from Glenda, my step-mother-in-law, and absolutely love it! Babies love it as well. You can ask my other sister-in-law Emily, whose children refuse to let them go (sure makes a body feel good, lol).

I wanted to choose some different colors, and to be honest I'm still not so sure about them, but the blanket is done and I'll be shipping it off soon. While the design of the blanket stays the same, I like to try different borders.