Needlework Monday - Working on our Baby Girl’s Crochet Blanket!

Happy #NeedleWorkMonday friends!!! I had a really nice chat with @crystalize last week about how much fun we’ve been having sharing with you all every week! It’s been Amazing to see all of the new additions every week and the many different forms of needlework that is coming to the surface! I also want to commend you all for taking our advice in taking process pictures as you go and explaining how your projects are coming along. It’s been really fun interacting with you as your projects journey along. Keep up the great work!!! 😃👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Well as you know I’ve been really busy completing my latest order from the hat store. I finished two more hat and neck warmer sets and will be delivering them to the store owner this week. However since the Spring weather is starting to peak in, I think we’re going to hold off on making any more of those sets until next Fall. Once I get the time I will be making quite a few sets during the Spring/Summer so that she will be well stocked for the Fall and Winter season. We’re going to discuss me making some Spring scarves for the store (using crochet thread) in the meantime. I have to thank @anise for inspiring me to use crochet thread because I have never worked with it before. I fell in love with her doilies and have been wanting to experiment with the thread ever since.

So as you can see from the picture above I have finally had the time to get started with our baby girl’s blanket! I have made each of my children a crochet blanket since I learned the craft. I’m especially excited to make a girly blanket because when our first daughter was born I didn’t know how to crochet then. So I have only made boy blankets for our kids.

This is a clamshell blanket. I really love the design and I found the color inspiration from Pinterest. My husband feels there are too many colors (6 colors total) and doesn’t appreciate the beauty of it yet lol! He’s so used to me using 2 to 3 colors and doesn’t understand why I want so many. I explained that right now it’s hard to see how nice the colors will blend together because I only have the beginning rows completed. I look forward to seeing just how well they do blend.

So in case you’re wondering why the closeup of the clamshell in the above picture let me tell you why. If you look closely at the tan colored one on the bottom you will see that it’s off centered. 🤦🏽‍♀️ It’s aligned to the left unlike the forest green shell above it. I was just talking about how much of a perfectionist I am and would “normally” frog everything to go and fix my mistakes. Well here are my thoughts...

I’m too far along in pregnancy to even bother with more stress, I am not selling this blanket it’s only for my baby girl and as long as you don’t look too close you won’t notice it lol! 👀

I am only sharing this annoying horrific error exclusive mistake with my needlework peeps! 😉😄 Besides, I have completed a few more rows since taking these pictures so that confirms there’s no turning back.

So as you can see below that whole row is in error. 😐

Nevertheless I think I will love it once it all comes together. I also want to admit I almost decided to quit and start a new design. The pattern is a bit confusing at first. It is written in UK terms but an English translation is included. If it wasn’t for the Youtube video tutorial she includes at the end, I probably would have let it go. She did rate this pattern Tricky which definitely explains it. It’s an 8 row pattern and once you’ve completed the first 8 rows you continue repeating rows 3-8 throughout the entire blanket. I tend to loose track easily because I’m constantly stopping to parent and lose my place.

I’ll be checking in with you all with the progress as I go. Once again I thank @anise for the inspiration for sticking to a project and getting it done. She did an amazing job on her filet curtain working on it little by little throughout the week. I am so ready to move on to her baby clothes and cardigan but I am determined to finish her blanket first! 🤞🏽😜

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Thank you so much for tuning in! I’m looking forward to seeing all of your posts this week! I am also looking forward to chatting with you all for the Monday Coffee Hour on Discord in the Fiber-General chat starting @3:00pm eastern time! https://discord.gg/DXJgNF3 Grab your coffee ☕️ or tea 🍵 and let’s chat, mingle and have some fun! I’m looking forward to getting to know each of you better :D Thank you @shawdowspub and @fiberartists for using your channel to host this!

Huge shoutout to @rigaronib for creating my logo/banner!!! He was so awesome to work with and as you can see he produces great results!!!! Thank you!!!