Crochet Me Crazy

Alison and I are staying really busy with various activities. Alison is staying busy trying to juggle her school work and all of her other activities. Homeschool co-op classes and field trips are keeping us busy. Alison has also added another hour of ballet to her schedule each week by helping with the Ballet 3 class once a week so she's dancing for almost 3 hours on Mondays. She loves doing it though! It makes for a very tired girl when she gets home though! I didn't realize how busy we were until we started looking at the calendar and trying to plan a trip to Six Flags, a trip to see Jeff's family, and a day for Alison to have pictures taken.

When I am at home, I've been spending way too much time crocheting when I should be doing other stuff! I'm am realizing how fast I must be at crocheting though because I started a baby blanket as a gift for my nephew who's having a baby. In two days, of crocheting here and there on it I had the main blanket finished and started on the border. I'm really close to being done already but I haven't worked on it for a few days.





This is made from the left over Berocco yarn I used for my sister's afghan. Really nice yarn. I'll probably be able to make a couple of other things to go with this gift like a hat and booties.

I took a break from that and made some baby headbands! I'm having a lot of fun with these! These are super quick to make and oh so cute! I wish I would've been crocheting when Alison was a baby! She would have had headbands to match every outfit!



Here's close-ups of two of my personal favorites!






I'm just doing a double crochet in back stitches only (so it'll be stretchy) according to a headband size chart and then using various flower patterns I have for flowers.

A friend came over yesterday and bought some of the baby stuff I've made. She also bought some of Alison's handmade cards! So that was nice. She took some pictures of Gracie and I.



Here's a picture of Gracie I took the other day from the window of my house. I had never seen her climb in the flower bed before! So she's the one who keeps knocking over the chickens!