Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Some Zesty Baby Treats...

After the massive closing down sale of my favourite place to by yarn, a couple of months ago, I now have quite a large quantity of lovely expensive rowan yarn to use up. One of my favourite finds was a bag (10 balls in total) of the wonderful milk cotton in, the colour I have just discovered is called, "fruit salad" (I think I love it even more now!). I also have to share with you the fact that those 10 balls of yarn cost a grand total of £11.50!!

Despite the fact that Johnny has some horrible aversion to orange as a colour, I have crocheted both a baby blanket and a baby hat, with the above yarn and I still have more than 5 balls left!!

I used a stitch I hadn't done before, with the blanket..it's very simple double crochet chain double crochet, putting double crochet into the gap where the chain below is, and I think it works really well as a baby blanket because it's nice and light. Then I just did a few rows of double crochet around the edge.

The hat I managed to knock up pretty quickly and easily (whilst delighting in watching Heston cook up incredible wonders!)...working completely out of my head...in about 20 minutes! The only pattern I had for a baby hat in crochet was done flat and then stitched together rather than in rounds, which seemed a bit silly to me, so I just used the basis of my oversized beanies, but made it much much smaller!!

I'm not really quite sure how big a new born baby's head is exactly and some of the hats I've bought for him look scarily huge, but I think I've got it close to right! We'll just have to wait and see I guess...5 weeks today!!


Happy Wednesday xx

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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousWed Mar 11, 07:43:00 pm

    I love the blanket and cap. In addition to sheets I was always looking around for a small blanket (no matter what the weather!).

    Julia

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  2. LiPeonyThu Mar 12, 01:15:00 am

    that's so cute... your pictures of the details of the stitches are great... fruit salad color..now that is new. =D

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  3. FrancaThu Mar 12, 03:56:00 pm

    I love orange! I'm making a cowl out of orange cotton just now.

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  4. AnonymousMon Mar 16, 02:14:00 am

    The stitch creates a wonderful looking fabric. I really like it -- both blanket and hat look masterfully made.

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  5. SamSat Sept 19, 07:02:00 am

    Awesome!!Nice colours! This cap looks so beautiful. I like the blanket and cap. Thanks so much for sharing.

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  6. AnonymousWed Mar 02, 09:07:00 pm

    I would love to make this for a friend that's having her baby shower soon. Would you be able to explain the stitch you used to me? haha I'm fairly new to crochet, and I just think it's so perfect!

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  7. AnonymousSat Feb 25, 05:38:00 pm

    Could you tell me where you got the pattern for the blanket? Or explain how to do it. I would love to make one!

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  8. redrose51Mon Jan 14, 09:14:00 pm

    hi., i would love to know how to makw rhis blanket. it will be for alittle boy who has bone cancer. could you help me please. thank you,

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  9. AnonymousFri Jul 12, 05:58:00 am

    would u be able to tell how many stitches u did for blanket and how to do it

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  10. AnonymousMon Nov 18, 07:07:00 pm

    I think the pattern goes like this: dc,ch1,dc all the way across. ch 1, turn.
    Next and all subsequent rows: Ch1,dc around ch1 from previous row, dc, Repeat across. Repeat this row for the pattern.
    This is my impression of the pattern. It may not be exact, but pretty close. Just experiment and see what it looks like.

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