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This is for a friend’s baby (the same one I made the slant stitch afghan for), in the same local yarn that I finished the afghan/blanket with. The pattern is from Paton’s Woolcraft Golden Hands Baby Clothes of 1974. I used a size 4.00mm Winfield hook that Chrissie in the UK from Crochetlist sent me in memory of Susan Renfrow.

Here’s a closeup of the stitches:

I love booties. Have I said that before? Anyway, these are my first ones from the pattern booklet that B sent me (the first pair on the third row):

Yarn: Local acrylic, unknown brand
Hook: Boye F/5/3.75mm aluminium
Pattern: Sherbet booties from Precious Baby Booties by Carolyn Christmas
Time: Maybe 3 hours?
Size: Sole is about 3" (pattern size says 3.5"-4")
Extra: #1 I actually had the colours (love them) used in the pattern!!!! (not the transparent ribbon, though)
#2 The pattern uses "leave a long loop" instead of cutting and rejoining yarn for the colour changes. While of course I appreciate not having to weave in a thousand ends on such small items, I cannot really say the long loops help much…(and the inner side is obviously marred by the drawn-up loops, but maybe I did the drawing up wrong?!)
#3 While googling for Carolyn Christmas, I discovered she's also the author of another book I'm drooling over:

I will get my hands on this and the hooks for it. Although of course the Afghan/Tunisian stitch does create a very thick fabric, it's a technique I want to try. I have two slender afghan hooks but the swatches I create with them always curl. Someone said this settles down after a bit, but I've never gone beyond the first few rows, you know.
Meanwhile, I wish the price of the book on Amazon would fall so I could actually buy it with my $10 gift certificate (shipping is $4.95 or so!!!). Miracles can always happen 😀

Here is a baby sweater I finished two nights ago. It was washed yesterday. The yarn is a local acrylic that I bought in unlabelled hanks in Hyderabad. The pattern I adapted from Auntie M’s site, the Abigail sweater Link changed to Web Archive (so, it’s a girl’s name and my friend’s baby is a boy…so what? Stop asking me that question!!!!)

I used a Pony brand 4.00mm hook in aluminium. I added a pattern repeat for the yoke since it was coming out way too small, and a couple of repeats for the body. Also, the sleeves as well.

Please tell me it isn’t too girly….

This was a rush job, as I was leaving that afternoon, so both I and my nephew were blurry-eyed and half-awake…
I used a girl’s pattern from Freepatterns.com for the boy’s vest (gender-bender, that’s me!) and used up almost all of the 7 oz Red Heart Super Saver skein in Soft Navy that Christal sent me for the September CAT PAC. This PAC arrived providentially while my sister was visiting, so I was able to take the yarn (she chose the colour) with me when I went with them to Hyderabad.
As usual (dunno why I bother writing this at all) I ran out of skein, so I made do with some local yarn in a very dark navy blue. I used a K 6.50mm hook. I started off with Red Heart Crystalites, but found it wasn’t sliding through smoothly, so I shifted to a Boye K 6.50mm instead. Much better!

The original pattern calls for chenille.

Several things are wrong in these photos:
1. Both of us were unwilling to wake up
2. The color didn’t come out properly, so I fiddled with the pics in an editor.
3. His pajamas are too dark to show off the vest/pattern properly
4….

You get the picture.

Here it is, the RH SS baby blanket I was making for my friend’s baby girl:

The 8oz skein finished midway through Row 28, so I frogged that row, ran out for some matching local yarn and segued into the border.

The pattern can be found at Angelcrafts*. I chained only 123, and made 27 rows (plus border 3 rows) to end up with a 32″ x 34″ blanket. Hook size was Boye K/6.5 mm. Yarn is worsted weight, 4-ply.

The border was my own inspiration (thanks everyone for your suggestions!). For the border I did (using American terminology):

Rnd 1. Without ending off at the end of Row 27 (or wherever you stop), ch2, working on side of blanket, * make 4 hdc in each ch4 and 1 hdc in each sc, 2 hdc in corner*. Working on the other side of foundation ch, ch 4, (dc in next st, hdc in next st, sc in next st, sl st in next st, [sc, hdc, dc in next ch4], tr in next st) across to next corner. Work 2 hdc in corner, then repeat from * to * once. Ch 4, +in next ch 4 (dc, hdc, sc), sl st in sc+, repeat across from + to +, join!

No, that was not written in gobbledygook, it’s just my confused mind.

Rnd 2. Hdc in each st till end, join

Rnd 3. Ch 3, sc in next st around. Join, fasten off!

Basically what I wanted to do was to produce a level set of stitches around to work a solid looking border, since the pattern itself is wavy enough.

Yay!!!! My first-ever object approaching a afghan/blanket/whatever.

Question: Won’t it be a bit thick and heavy? Although it is lacy…

Weird observation No.1: Both the RH SS and my local yarn are 4-ply, but the local yarn is much thinner, so I used 2 strands together.

* You have to register at the Angelcrafts site to see the pattern, but it is free and has lots more other patterns.

I realised I don’t usually show any UFOs here and wonder what it says about me (no, I don’t want to know, can’t you spot a rhetorical question?!)

So here is a UFO, a baby blanket I’m making for a friend’s new baby girl, born this September. I’m using the 8 oz skein of Red Heart Super Saver in Light Coral that I got for my August CAT PAC from Kat over at Crochetlist.

The pattern is from Angelcrafts, and you can find it here. The yarn is obviously Worsted Weight, and I’m using a K/6.5mm Boye hook. Instead of the 180 chain the pattern originally calls for, I chained 123 (don’t ask!) and that makes it about 30″ wide, which I reckon should be enough. I think I’ll work it to 30″ square, and then do an edging. Maybe not the one in the pattern, it’s too holey, which the blanket already is, anyway.

So if you have any ideas on nice 2-3 row edgings, please tell me.

And here are a pair of cute FOs! Booties for another friend’s baby, a boy this time:

The pattern is from Darcy Richardson, and very easy and quick. I finished this pair in just about 2 hours, with about WW yarn and a 3.50mm hook.

Finished Sweater for cousin’s baby. Don’t ask about the buttons. Pattern from 1960’s Fleisher pattern book. Made matching booties also, but forgot to take a picture. 😦
Believe me, it is the same sweater, the colour looks different because…well, just because! I can’t really say which one looks most like the original: I’d say they both do, coming from opposite sides of the spectrum.:D

Here is the back:

This was the back with one front done:

Update: Oops! I deleted your comment, Sheila. Never mind. I read it and that is what is important, right?! Anyway, as I had said in my reply to your comment, the sweater didn’t take very long to make at all, which is why I love using crochet rather than knit for kidswear. To paraphrase someone on the Net, I have the attention span of a gnat, so anything larger or which takes longer to finish gets either frogged or trashed. ;0