Crochet for Baby!

My latest crochet projects were a baby blanket and a giraffe lovey for my friend's first grandchild, a beautiful girl who was born in January 2016. As the family lived in Melbourne on the other side of Australia and I would not be seeing them until Easter I had a little more time to work on them.

The baby blanket was in three colours - pink, white and green with a white border/edging.  It was the first time I had made a blanket that was not from a granny square pattern and I managed to learn some other techniques in the process so am thrilled with the final result.  It has a total of 50 rows and then the edging.

I found the pattern at Favecrafts.

The giraffe lovey I found through a search on pinterest.  I wasn't looking specifically for a giraffe but this one caught my eye.  Even though the original was in yellow I decided to try changing the colours to make it more suited for a girl.    The pattern originally came from Lulu's Crafts Blog (I had found it through another blogger).

This one was more difficult than the Minions and duck lovey's I made previously but I'm pleased with the result.  Each piece is made individually then all sewn together at the end.  As mentioned in the pattern, the blanket part is a solid granny-square and this pattern is available on Moogly Blog.

The original pattern has circles sewn onto the blanket however I wanted to add something a bit more feminine so went searching pinterest for applique flowers or butterflies instead.  The flowers I used were from Is It A Toy? blog

Below is a picture of the original Giraffe Lovey from the creator and pictures of my completed lovey.

Crochet Duck Lovey

My latest crochet project was a Duck Lovey blankie made for one of the reception staff on my team at work.  She is expecting a baby in December and I decided to make this as a gift for the baby.

The pattern was in a crochet magazine and gave me a little grief with the beak but overall I'm pretty happy with the result.

Getting back into Crochet

It's been a while since I updated this blog but I've been busy with work and family the last few years and not really done much crafting at all.  In 2014 alone I changed jobs twice (to avoid redundancy!), one daughter had a baby and another daughter got married!  

I'm now getting back into my crafting - crochet, cross stitch and now learning knitting!  

I have a few things on the go at the moment but trying to stick to smaller projects I can finish within a few weeks.

I finished a crochet project today for my 12month grandaughter Evelyn.  A mini minion blankie!  I found this pattern while looking through Pinterest and was looking for something small to start with.  It's been a long time since I did any crochet and not much more than granny square blankets so it was good to be able to see this coming together.  I added an extra row of yellow in the blanket to make it a little bigger and used a smaller hook to make the eye as the first one I made was too big for the head!  I think I may have used a tighter tension when making the head so it came out smaller than it should be.

Minion Mini Snug Blanket

Thank you to Shell from Mamma That Makes for the free pattern.  There are so many others on her blog that I can't wait to make!