Two blankets and a Pitiful attempt at Amigurami

I'm singing praises that we have finally collected enough blankets for the NICU service project. I'll be wrapping them up and getting them to the NICU in just a couple of weeks.

Here are the last two blankets I made:

And here is my pitiful attempts at amigurami.... First, I tried to make a quick frog for a birthday gift. It didn't turn out the way I wanted at all, but Baby L loves chewing on it. G9 watched as I searched online for amigurami patterns and begged me to make the bom-bomb from Mario. After I finished it, E3 wanted a blue bom-bomb and E6 wanted a Mario star (not pictured).






I think I'll stick with baby blankets.

Headbands for Sale

I'm attempting to keep a record with pictures of each of my crochet projects this year. I often give away (and sometimes sell) my crochet so it's nice to have photographs that I can look at.

I recently starting selling some things on etsy.com including headbands. These pictures are all posted there, but not here, so here goes...

Pink Jeweled Flower Headband

Three Crochet Flowers Headband

Crochet Fireworks Three Strand Headband (I've made two of these so far.)






Patriotic Stars Headband (I've made two of these as well.)





Red, White, and Blue Braided Headband



Crochet Sunflower Headband

All of my crocheted headbands can be purchased at my etsy shop: Little Ones Galore.

An array of headbands.

A friend of ours needed some soft headbands for her five year old daughter, so I decided to work a few up. I had so much fun, that I didn't want to stop!

The first one was based on a pattern I saw online. It's got a fun retro look and I loved embellishing it with buttons.

Next was a wide headband with a BIG pink flower.

I really like this simple headband. It actually ties under the hair making it adjustable.

I had a couple headbands that I had previously made for L1, but she would never wear them. I added the black ribbon to this one which really made it pop.

Purple and pink are H5's favorite colors.

This braided band was one of my absolute favorites. I love the fun colors and the pretty braid.

And finally, just in time for fourth of July...

And here they are ready to go.

Free Poodle pattern and crochet along!

Isn't this just about the most adorable toy poodle you've ever seen? No, I didn't make it...yet. But you can get the FREE!! pattern at www.allfreecrochet.com AND they are having their first ever crochet-along to complete it. Very cool! Check it out here!

Teaching crochet

I had the opportunity to teach an 8 week crochet class to a group of girls at our homeschool co-op this semester. We made bookmarks, headbands, purses, hats, and they each made a blanket to donate to the NICU.







I was so proud of all the hard work that they accomplished and it was such a blessing to teach them. I'll be teaching another crochet class in the fall!

Grannies for Babies

I've got two new preemie blankets to show you. It's so much fun to see the blankets adding up. They're so pretty stacked on top of one another.
For this blanket I used two different square patterns.


The border was fun because I tried an 'x' stitch that I had never done before.


A cute little knotted cord adds a bit of fun to the hat.


I think the large granny square blanket works up the fastest, but the last few rows always seem like they last forever.


I've been wanted to try a bonnet pattern, and this one was really easy.