Keeping busy!

After finding out that I was having a boy, I pulled out my big bin of flannel material looking for "boy" stuff.  I found these cute dogs.  I also found  a few other...and by a few, well, I've been crocheting close to 15 burp clothes.  Though I hope not to use them all, I will have some for giving as gifts.

Just wanted a closer picture to show the fun crocheting pattern.

And here is a thin receiving blanket I made for Gizmo.  I used my regular crochet thread to go around the piece of flannel and then I used a fuzzy yarn/thread to go around it one more time.  The edging is so soft and fluffy.  I love it!

I love that I've been able to stay busy making cute stuff.

Crocheting headbands

One of my sister-in-laws' taught us all how to crochet headbands with a crocheted flower on the top.  We also enjoyed hours of talking with each other.

Here's our fearless teacher.  She was so patient as she helped each of us with all of our questions and mistakes.  And she was a great teacher!  We all finished at least one headband that day.

And here's the finished piece and our beautiful model.

Dish cloths

I was thinking that I needed some dish cloths because I kept taking my nice dish rags and using them on the BBQ grill or on the car. I was getting so upset with myself when my dish rags would be stained because I didn't find my old rags when cleaning up things besides just my regular kitchen stuff. Anyway, instead of getting more upset, I went to my bin of yarn, found this 100% cotton yarn and used a double crochet to make me some new dish cloths. Perfect! And I am going to try not to stain these particular dish clothes, but if I do, I'll just make up some more.

Ta Da! Fun AND useful!

Baby Blanket

I finished this baby blanket last month. I love the material for the front and the back of this blanket. And I love them together with the red crocheted edge. So cute!

More Fabric!!!!

So, for those of you that know me, know that I have a thing for children's flannel. And since I found a sale at JoAnn's on the 4th of July weekend, I ended up using all of my July's allowance on these cool pieces of flannel.

Isn't that cute...sky blue and teddy bears?!!

Look at those two matching pieces! Lovely polka dots!

Look at these two potential blankets...one for a boy and one for a girl! That would be perfect for a set of twins that are one boy and one girl. But since I don't know of anyone that has that recipe in the oven guess I'll just enjoy the fabric!

Baby Blanket

I love this view from my back deck. Look at all those colors! Unfortunately the pink is already gone but was replaced with a dark maroon leaves so I still have color, just not that brilliant color. I love the beauty God has placed on this earth!

I'm still plugging away at crocheted edges on baby blankets and burp clothes. I really liked the eyes of the turtles in this blanket. They are so happy and alive! Perfect for a baby's blanket.

I did three kinds of edging. The very top one (on the right) is called a triangle edge, and then I did a block edge and the bottom one is a small rainbow edge.