Colorful Tiramisu Baby Blanket...

Lately I've been working on a new project the Tiramisu baby blanket that I saw while scouring the internet a while ago. I attempted this blanket once with a natural color Pound of Love by Lion Brand that I had in my stash. I didn't like the way it was coming about so I frogged it. I saw a version of this blanket (if I find the link I will update) and love what she had done with incorporating the stripes in the pattern. So I found some colors that my little one picked out for his blanket (I since changed my mind for the blanket I wanted to do for him) and I started the Tiramisu striped blanket.

The pattern worked up fairly quickly. More details on what I did can be found on my Ravelry page here. The yarn used was Loops and Threads Impeccable from Michael's. I added one of my labels I made and printed through Spoonflower. Now its ready to be given to the recipients of their second child, a baby boy. This family is the same one that got the Crochet Quilt blogged about in this post.

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T. Mitchell

Colors, Colors, and More Colors....

I'm just a few strands away from finishing the Sunburst Granny blanket. That means its time to start another project. Once it's done I will post updated pictures of the finished product. There are so many things that I want to do next...blankets, sweaters, coats,hats. I have a lot of different colors to use so I was looking for a stash buster that would use up some of the yarn I have so when I buy more I won't fell bad :/ and so I can continue to build my blanket stash. These are the colors that I want to use to work with.

Colors I want to use in next blanket

These are ten skeins from my stash. Some have never been used and others are partials. I have frogged three blankets before remembering that I saw this at Petunia Pill's BlogSpot. I couldn't pass this one by.

 

On her website she gives a how-to for this blanket. So far I'm happy with how it is turning out. Since this picture I've added 5 more rows. I started using a smaller hook a size H I think but the "puff's" weren't puffing out like they should so I switched to a size K and it's looking good I think.

 



Puff Stitch Started


 

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                  T. Mitchell

 







Next Crochet To-Do....

So I've always wanted to make a blanket with crochet on one side and fabric on the other. I had this idea a very long time ago and never got around to it but of course like everything else when I looked more into it someone had already done it. Well that made my life somewhat easier because now I know what and how to do it and that it will work. I finished the blanket which is done in single crochet and purchased some fabric for the backing. 

This is a gift for parents of a new baby. Originally no one knew the sex of the baby so I figured the red and the circles could go either way. Since it took me I long to finished this blanket, thanks to my sewing machine, the couple had the baby, a girl- which prompted me to purchase more fabric. So now I will use the colorful paisley and flower material for the backing and the circles for the binding. I thought about crocheting a border but I figured a fabric binding would be different. I finally got a new sewing machine since the Pfaff I have would not cooperate. After attempting to fix it on my own with the help of YouTube- it would work fine then the needle would hit the bobbin housing and brake. I think the timing is off. It's old and one day I think I'd like to get it repaired.  Ive been putting this blanket off to try and get some other things done but maybe today I'm will break out my new Brother and work on it.