the may square for my square-a-month blanket for bundles of joy is finished:
this month's yarn was leftovers from the mitered crosses blanket i made for my sister's family to celebrate their new home. the yarn is bernat's mosaic and i love that this oh-so-fun colorway will continue to bring love and snuggles to people allover the midwest!
four down - five to go!
-melissa
i also finished up my zen circle baby blanket for bundles of joy this weekend.
it's just lucy of attic24's flat circle tutorial zen-crocheted out to a 40" diameter and then trimmed with one round of sc and one round of picot edging.
can't you just picture a sweet little baby rolling around on the blanket?
i can. and it has totally made my day. yay!!
-melissa
sometimes when crafting you feel the drive to push your self, challenge your creativity, learn a new skill.
other times you just need to crochet a giant circle.
-melissa
my april bundles of joy donation is finished! it's a phazelia's mitered baby jacket (rav link) knit in paton's kroy sock yarn.
i followed the pattern exactly, well until the end... then i wasn't feeling the applied icord love, so i edged it with a round of hdc instead.
i give this pattern a huge thumbs up! i can totally see myself knitting it again in the future!
-melissa
this year in southern minnesota we are experiencing an especially verdant springtime, but many years winter drags its feet, leaving us with browns, greys, and just a hint of green.
april's bundles of joy theme is "tiptoe through the tulips - springtime color explosion" (or something like that, i may have taken a few liberties with the title) but i've decided that my chosen donation project for this month will pay homage to the late arrival of spring. so i present to you my current wip, muddy miters:
it's a phazelia's mitered baby jacket (rav link) which i've had my eye on since claire made one almost three years ago. the pattern is crazy-fun, very baby-surprise-jacket-esque in my opinion (although i've never made one of those either, so who am i to say?) i'm just excited to flip it all around like magic when i'm finished and have a sweater! voila!
so bring on the magic and bring on the muddy miters! who says babies need to wear pastels anyway?!?
-melissa
all this talk of muddy miters has gotten this song stuck in my head... "up to my neck in high, muddy miters" (heh heh, i'm like the weird al of knitting songs.)
the april square for my square-a-month blanket for bundles of joy is completed:
it didn't turn out exactly as i envisioned... there were less of the darker blues left than i thought (all but the navy blue is from my first ripple afghan) i threw in a little navy there at the end (from my march ripple afghan) but still, it's not quite right in my mind. but i hope once it's mixed in with the other eight squares it probably won't look so odd.
three down, six to go!
in other news: eight years ago today in an abandoned lot in austin, tx the best cat in the entire world was born.
happy birthday to my sweet sweet pippin!
-melissa
the march square for my square-a-month afghan project for bundles of joy is finished:
i am still loving the pattern - the 10 stitch blanket by frankie brown (rav link) is really quite fun and a great way to use up all my random bits of yarn. i had to dig waaaaay back in my ravelry project page to find what these yarns were originally for. the light grey was used in a ravenclaw hat for brian, the dark grey was a random hat for a donation project, and i can't for the life of me figure out what i did with the green yarn. but i only had a partial skein, so it must have been something.
two down, seven to go!
-melissa
my march donation item for bundles of joy is completed.
another ripple afghan (rav pattern link). i love this pattern, it is so comforting and soothing to make.
i hope it continues to bring soothing comfort as well as snuggles and joy to its new owner and her/his family.
-melissa
forgive me bloggers, it has been 1 month and 9 days since my last ripple...
given that i had all this yarn just sitting in my basement:
there was really only one solution i could come up with:
oh sweet ripples... how i have missed you.
-melissa
after watching mary's lovely square-a-month blanket project come together all i could think of was how much i wanted to make a square-a-month blanket.
i wanted it to be something that could use up all the random bits and bobs of yarn i have lying around (still trying to keep with my somewhat binding no yarn buying pledge you know) but without completely looking like i had constructed a frankenblanket with all the random bits and bobs of yarn i have lying around.
i've always wanted to make a 10 stitch blanket (rav link) and it seemed a perfect candidate for using up small bits of yarn. so away i went!
without further ado, here is my february square. it's made up of bits and bobs leftover from the c+g afghan.
the plan is to make nine 13" squares, giving me a 3x3 blanket, which after adding a border, will fit the bundles of joy requirements of 40"x40" for their baby afghans.
so stay tuned... more squares will follow!
-melissa
