Crochet Me Crazy

I bought a very large bag of doilies yesterday in Frederickburg for $10! I was going to take pictures of all of them but there's too many! These are not even the prettiest ones but it's as far as I got on the pictures before I realized I couldn't take individual pictures of them all.

These first three are huge!

This is part of a big stack I still have to go through...I can't take pictures of all of these. So far I've looked at 50 doilies. There must be several hundred here. I'll get them all counted. There are also several large runner doilies in there. I'm amazed.

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The old pink blanket has now turned into this:



I'm able to work on this a little every day while at my caregiving job.

I've started undoing the pink blanket and since then I have begun on TWO different baby blanket patterns. I've done just enough on them to decide NOPE. I don't like them either. I'm having a hard time finding a pattern I want to go with! This is the only yarn that I have enough quantity of to make a blanket with right now so I can't squander it! :)

I think I've finally decided that I'm going to use the patten I used for my nephew's baby afghan for this yarn. This is the pattern:Ravelry: Exquisite Baby Afghan pattern by Terry Kimbrough

Then, when we head into San Antonio next weekend, I will get the pink yarn to start on the blanker for the grandbaby. I just have to go with true pink! I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with this pattern:

I don't like it. I was continuing it to give it a chance but especially after seeing this picture...it's just wonky and I don't like it. I REALLY hate to take this out because this has been a lot of work but that's way too much YARN to let go to waste.

Well, here it is! This is from the Leisure Arts book called "Baby's Best"



I like the way it turned out. This would be a good pattern to use for a baby boy.

Made this heart this weekend. Here's the free pattern: Crochet and other stuff: Granny Sweet Heart Pattern

I finished the Rainbow Baby Blanket this weekend and finished weaving in the ends last night. Pictures shortly....

So glad Alison got back from her trip safely! She had a good time and made a new friend.

I had a booger of a time on round 19 of this pattern. I was close to giving up! Turned out to be two problems...Since this is a simple granny variation I got a little lazy on the stitch counts. Well, once I got that right, it still wasn't working! I was beginning to feel like a real dunce! Then I figured out that there WAS and error in my pattern! I was using a copy of this pattern that I don't even remember where I got it from...from a blog somewhere. I knew it was the same blanket pattern so I used that copy because I liked the way it was typed out beter than the published pattern in Leisure Arts. My mistake to do that I guess. Now, I'm on my way again!

I finally got some crochet inspiration started .... I'm working on two different baby blankets. I started on an afghan called Heirloom Ruffles from the book Keepsake Baby Afghans by Leisure Arts.
There are a lot of nice patterns in this book....


The one I am making is the one pictured in pink on the book cover below...


What I chose to make depended on what I could make from yarn I had on hand. This afghan is going to be boring to me until I get to the border so I started on another baby afghan.

My work so far....not a great picture...



This afghan is a pattern that I have had sitting around for a very long time thinking I want to make this someday.

It's from the Leisure Arts booklet called Baby's Best...on the cover shown below:



I don't know why this appeals to me to so much. It's a litle plain but it's such an interesting twist on the granny square! I just like it!

This afghan is the one that has really taken my attention and I am taking off with it more so than the other one.

Poor picture but here's a quick shot of my work in progress:



So anyway, that's what I'm up to.