Beanies

Yay for you tube teaching videos! This took me just over an hour I think to make!
Then I proceeded to make this one for our first nephew due in April!

Baby Blanket

I started this blanket 2 months ago and so glad I got it done today! One more thing I can check off my endless list of things to do.

If anyone needs a good yarn to use when working on projects, I HIGHLY recommend Caron Simply Soft. This is the 2nd project I have worked with this yarn and I can say, it is sooooo soft, really smooth and easy to use. They sell it at Joanns and I am pretty sure you could find a smaller selection of it at Walmart. Some of the other "baby" soft yarns just aren't soft enough or they have lots of little frillies hanging off of them so it makes them difficult to work with (in my opinion).

Anyway, I am now going to try and teach myself how to make a matching beanie?! Never done that before, so should be an interesting learning experience.

Finished what I started 12 years ago for my cousin!

I love Crocheting! I started when I was 11, be it I was very bad, I have enjoyed crocheting ever since. I am not so technically skilled that I can do more more than the basics, but I am very happy that I can actually do the basics now and have it turn into a usable, finished product.

My very first project I crocheted was a "supposed" to be a pink baby blanket for my cousin Carley when she was born. It turned into a ridiculous looking triangle and I never finished it.

Thankfully over the years I have learned how to make things in to rectangles and for Carley's 12th birthday (which was on Oct 1st) I finally finished her blanket... which I intended to do 12 years ago!