• 2025 - Baby Blanket - Blanket - Crochet - Hat

    2025-26 & 27 Crochet Easy Elegant Baby Blanket / One Row Repeat, and Baby Maude Hat

    January 8, 2026 - By 

    When my friends have babies and grandbabies, they get blankets! I’ve watched Robin’s kids grow up in the neighbourhood, so when her son and his wife had their first baby this year, of course I made a blanket and a hat. The yarn is the same I knit my cousin’s granddaughters blanket set with earlier this year, but in the colour sage. It’s a really lovely yarn to work with, knit or crochet.

    I followed the pattern from a video on YouTube, the border turned out so lovely! It’s very elegant as the name suggests.

    Pattern: Crochet Easy Elegant Baby Blanket

    Size: 35” square

    Craft: crochet

    Made for: Robins granddaughter

    Hook: 4 mm, 4.5 mm, 5 mm & 5.5 mm

    Yarn: Stylecraft Bambino DK

    Colourway: Sage

    Notes: Chain 174 to start with 4 mm hook. Switch to 4.5 mm for blanket. After 6” switch to 5 mm because my tension tightened up.

    Width of blanket before border is 29”, crochet till 29” long. 

    27 Baby Maude Hat

    Pattern: Baby Maude Hat by Daisy Farm Crafts

    Size: 3-6 months

    Craft: crochet

    Made for: Robin Wheatleys granddaughter Natalia

    Hook: 4mm

    Yarn: Stylecraft Bambino DK

    Colourway: Sage

  • 2025 - Baby Blanket - Blanket - Crochet

    2025-19 Overlay Mosaic Crochet Baby Blanket

    January 1, 2026 - By 

    I was looking for a pattern to make an impressive wedding gift blanket, I bought the Hide and Seek blanket by Beba Blanket, but thought I’d try out a free tutorial first. I’m glad I did, while I love the way they look, it’s an awful lot of single crochet. I might come back to it one day because I LOVE the look of the Hide and Seek Blanket with a gradient yarn. I cannot remember where I found this specific Greek Key pattern, but there are a lot of them out there on YouTube. I did use the tips and tricks, as well as the envelope border from Beba Blanket on YouTube though, she has really great videos!

    19 Overlay Mosaic Crochet Baby Blanket

    Pattern: Somewhere on YouTube?

    Made for: Donation

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 31 x 33”

    Hook: 4.5 and 5 mm

    Yarn: Loops & Threads Snuggly Wuggly Big!

    Colourway: Cool Baby 374 gm, Soft Yellow 211 gm

    Notes: practice piece to see if I was up for a full size version. Answer is no.

  • 2025 - Baby Blanket - Blanket - Knitting

    2025-18 Archie Baby Blanket

    January 1, 2026 - By 

    James asked for a baby gift for his friend whose son was born in August. I really liked the feel of this Caron Cotton Cake, it knit up really nicely, and feels very cozy. He won’t be seeing Merwin until February, so I hope they love it!

    18 Archie Baby Blanket 

    Pattern: Archie Baby Blanket – Free Knitting Pattern & Video Tutorial! – Snufflebean Yarn 

    Made for: James friend Merwins baby

    Craft: knit

    Size: 30 x 32”

    Needle: 4mm

    Yarn: Caron Cotton Cake

    Colourway: Beachwalk

    Notes: Cast on 151 sts. Used 1 ⅔ cakes of yarn.

  • 2025 - Baby Blanket - Blanket - Cardigan - Crochet - Garment - Hat - Knitting

    2025-12 & 13 Gifts for a New Baby in the Family

    August 29, 2025 - By 

    We have a new baby in the family! My cousins became grandparents to a beautiful baby girl named Maevan Jean on April 3rd, so of course I had to make something. I usually go with the standard baby blanket, but I fell in love with the knit Silver Fox Bonnet by Frogginette, then realized there was an adorable cardigan to match. I had ordered enough yarn to make a blanket anyway, so I decided to crochet a Classic Shell Stitch, the cardigan and bonnet only used 1 1/2 balls of the 6 that I ordered, so I had just enough.

    I love the braid effect of the cable pattern on the button band and shoulders of the cardigan, it’s the same cable stitch found in the front panels, it’s just done continuously.

    The yarn is Stylecraft Bambino DK from Wool Warehouse UK, it’s 100% acrylic, so easy care for new parents. The colour is Misty Mallow, which is in the purple family, it has a lovely vintage feel to it. It shows off the cables beautifully, and was very nice to work with. I have 6 balls of the Sage colourway as well, so it will pop up in a future project.

    12 Silverfox Cardigan and Bonnet

    Pattern: Silverfox Cardigan, Silverfox Bonnet by Frogginette

    Size: cardigan – 12 months/bonnet -child

    Craft: knitting

    Made for: cousin’s granddaughter Maevan 

    Needle: 3.5mm and 3 mm

    Yarn: Stylecraft Bambino DK

    Colourway: Misty Mallow

    Notes: cast on sleeves with German long tail

    Used 1 ½ balls (150 grams) for cardigan and bonnet.

    13 Classic Shell Stitch Baby Blanket 

    Pattern: Classic Shell Stitch Baby Blanket from Daisy Farm Crafts

    Size: 31 x 34”

    Craft: crochet

    Made for: cousin’s granddaughter Maevan

    Hook: 4mm

    Yarn: Stylecraft Bambino DK

    Colourway: Misty Mallow

  • 2025 - Baby Blanket - Blanket - Crochet

    2025-3 to 7 Little Dove Crochet Inspired Blankets

    June 13, 2025 - By 

    One of the crochet designers I follow is Faye from Little Dove Crochet, last October she posted in her blog about making four baby blankets all from the same colour combination, I really liked that idea. I have so much stash yarn for baby blankets I thought I’d give it a go. So I pulled my own colour combination together and managed five blankets! I added in an extra colour in the last couple blankets because I ran out of the green. All of these will be donated to Craft for YEG who you can find on Facebook. They are a local Edmonton, AB group who collect donations of many different items for a variety of local charities.

    Left to right, Harlequin Stitch, Growing Granny Square, Simple 5 Round Granny, 2 Round Solid Granny x 2

    3 – Harlequin Stitch Blanket

    Pattern: Harlequin Stitch by Daisy Farm Crafts

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 32 x 37″

    Hook: 4 mm

    Yarn: Loops & Threads Snuggly Wuggly – Candy Pink, Cotton Candy, Soft Lilac, White, Yellow

    Bernat Softee Baby – Fresh Green

    Notes: Starting chain 133. Work first row as skip 2 instead of skip 3. All chain 7 work as chain 5. All chain 4 as chain 3. Border is the Double Crochet Post Ribbing from Daisy Farm Crafts.

    4 – Simple Growing Granny Blanket

    Pattern: Simple Growing Granny

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 34 x 34″

    Hook: 4 mm

    Yarn:  Loops & Threads Snuggly Wuggly – Candy Pink, Cotton Candy, Soft Lilac, White, Yellow

    Bernat Softee Baby – Fresh Green

    Notes: Used about 33 grams of each colour, 185 grams of white. Border is one round sc in white, then shell stitch edging.

    5 – Simple 5 Round Granny Square Blanket

    Pattern: Simple 5 Round Granny Square

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 22 x 28″

    Hook: 4 mm, 4.5 mm for joining.

    Yarn: Loops & Threads Snuggly Wuggly – Candy Pink, Cotton Candy, Soft Lilac, White, Yellow, Dark Turquoise 

    Worked 20 squares to make 4×5 rectangle blanket. Used continuous join as you go as posted in Little Dove Crochet video. Shell stitch edging.

    6 – 2 Round Solid Granny Square Blanket

    Pattern: 2 Round Solid Granny Square

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 24 x 24″

    Hook: 4 mm

    Yarn: Scraps of DK/Sport weight yarn leftovers, with  Loops & Threads Snuggly Wuggly in white for joining. Used join as you go as above. Border was a few rounds of sc, then three rounds of granny stitch and two more rounds of sc.

    7 – Another 2 Round Solid Granny Square Blanket

    Pattern: 2 Round Solid Granny Square

    Craft: crochet

    Size: 22 x 26″

    Hook: 4 mm

    Yarn: Scraps of DK/Sport weight yarn leftovers with  cream for joining with join as you go as above. Border is a variation of the Attic24 Cozy Stripe Edging. I skipped round two, then worked round three into the spaces between dc clusters below.