Crochet baby car seat blanket

It's been awhile since I last posted, but since summer nationals, I've a) been in a car wreck and getting over whiplash, b) had my sister's wedding and all the craziness therein, and c) moved. Needless to say, I haven't done much crafting! I did get this done, though.

I made two crochet baby car seat blankets, using a pattern by my friend Jennifer. One was blue and for my nephew-on-the-way and was given to his mom at a shower two weeks ago. I also did a purple one for a good friend, whose baby is due on Halloween that I'll get to meet when I go to my conference in New Orleans in November. There is a hole in the bottom center so the car seat straps can hook through it. I took pictures of it on our friends' baby, Mira. She makes a great model, don't you think?

Looking for a fabric

I need two five-inch squares of the blue and white batik shown in this picture - if you have this particular fabric on hand, I'd gladly send you a FQ or other payment/trade in return. The FQs I had weren't cut properly, so I barely don't have enough to finish this!


Toni hooked me up with a FQ of the other fabric that was short (thank you again!!). I have pictures I need to post of my package from her, but need to locate the camera...

Christmas swap top completed!

I finally made a decision about the borders after much deliberation and several inputs - thanks everyone! I opted for a narrow inner border in cream, with the green holly fabric as a larger outer border. I'm pleased with how it turned out. I'll probably bind it in either cream or red - or maybe mix it up like a candy cane? That might be too much. We'll see. I'm glad I finally got this done - I've had the borders cut and sitting on my ironing board for a month. It's about time!

It turned out much larger than I had thought it would be in my head, oh well! I'm holding it up as high as I can, and I'm 5'8" - DH couldn't even get it all in the picture. Sorry the color is a bit off, but you can get the idea.

Miniature Booty Swap Quiltlet

I got my quiltlet done tonight for the Miniature Booty Swap. I'm running a bit behind (today was the mail date), but it'll go out tomorrow so it should be A-OK. This swap was a kitchen quilt swap - and in addition to the quiltlet, we had to come up with a dishtowel to coordinate. I made a little crocheted one with variegated red/white yarn, to be used as a dishcloth for washing dishes rather than drying them. The yarn started out making kind of a cool pattern, but then it changed. I tried to square it up when done, but alas, no luck. It also has bits of pink where the colors transition...I hope it's okay!


My partner said she has retro red, white, and yellow in her kitchen, so when I saw the little bee fabric (a 30's repro I actually LIKE) I knew it was perfect! I like vertical layouts on quilts, but don't usually make them, so I decided to do it here. I left the inner columns (note: I *hate* that quilting instructions call them "vertical rows"!) shorter on purpose, to draw attention to the vertical aspect. It is just quilted in the ditch, and backing fabric is the WoW of the front, which has little line hearts on it.

Miniature Quilt

I got my quiltlet done tonight for the Miniature Booty Swap. I'm running a bit behind (today was the mail date), but it'll go out tomorrow so it should be A-OK. This swap was a kitchen quilt swap - and in addition to the quiltlet, we had to come up with a dishtowel to coordinate. I made a little crocheted one with variegated red/white yarn, to be used as a dishcloth for washing dishes rather than drying them. The yarn started out making kind of a cool pattern, but then it changed. I tried to square it up when done, but alas, no luck. I hope it's okay!


My partner said she has retro red, white, and yellow in her kitchen, so when I saw the little bee fabric (a 30's repro I actually LIKE) I knew it was perfect! I like vertical layouts on quilts, but don't usually make them, so I decided to do it here. I left the inner columns (note: I *hate* that quilting instructions call them "vertical rows"!) shorter on purpose, to draw attention to the vertical aspect. It is just quilted in the ditch, and backing fabric is the WoW of the front, which has little line hearts on it.

I'll post a pic

Another top done!

I started this top about a year ago with the intent of giving it to my friend's daughter Leah on her first birthday, which is tomorrow (as is the party). You may remember I made this pattern in the same colors, but reversed, awhile back for older sister Shannon's first birthday. I've been so swamped, I knew I wasn't going to finish in time. Thankfully, Molly (the mom) understands. :D I did get the top done tonight, though, so that's something! I have some fun flamingo fabric for the back (sort of like I did for Shannon's quilt!) that I'll take pictures of when the whole thing is complete.

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