About 7 years ago, I made a post ‘WIP Wednesday – New Blankets for Shelibean’ It’s pictures of Sheli with his new blankets I crocheted for him from when he was a couple months old and when he was about 4 1/2 years old.
Shelibean is about 12 1/2 years old, I figure after the rough past few months he’s had, that he deserves some new blankets.
They’re handy for him to lay on or be covered up with. The best part is he recognizes them as his and it seems a comfort to him.
These blankets are a basic granny square crochet pattern of 18 double crochet rounds and a round of single crochet to finish the border, size I crochet hook, the yarn is what I have in my stash.
Shelibean and I wish you all a wonderful week.
A few weeks ago, I decided the best way to wait for inspiration for a new project was to begin make another busy-work blanket. I had plenty of gray yarn. I thought it’d be nice to see what a solid color busy-work blanket would look like. I figured, I could work on it until another project came by and then put it down. About a week later I got an idea for that ‘another project’, however I discovered that I didn’t want to put my Gray Busy Work project down. So, I continued on crocheting my busy-work project.
I once again, enjoyed mindlessly v-stitching away, crocheting on the back porch (when the weather allows), or listening to radio shows or watching TV in the evenings.
My gray busy-work blanket will be finished soon. I’ve got the panels ready to join together. I’m kind of sad about it.
Here’s my crochet project in progress. It’s going to be a bit bigger than my other 2 totes. I’m using 2 strands of yarn. I got bored with the 2 strands of gray color yarn. I changed the second strand to burgundy instead of continue using the second strand of gray.
I crocheted a tote bag, although I suppose it could be considered a handbag.
My plans for this bag changed, as I went along. For the straps, I originally was going to use loom knitted icords.
I decided to set zippers in the pockets. It was risky for me, since I’m not very skilled at zipper setting. However, I figured out a way to set the zipper that turned out pretty decent.
I’m surprised the lining turned out as well as it did.
All along, I played with the idea of either a simple flap closure or a zipper on the top. Well, I figured I’m this far into it, might as well go for it. It took me a few days to figure out how to set the zipper in the top that required only my limited skilled.
Tah-Dah! The zipper looks okay and works great.
60″x 80″
Joys Of Creating 