Hello friends.  I hope you are all having a nice week and enjoying the fall weather.  :)

I recently crocheted a baby sweater I made and shared with you last week.  If you missed that post and want read about it, than you can click HERE.

I decide to make a matching crocheted baby beanie since I had more left over yarn.

Crochet Granny Square Baby Beanie

This pattern is easy to follow and it can be found here.  Some of the stitches in this beanie pattern remind me of a granny square.  I thought that the hat and sweater would make a nice set and look cute together.

I will be donating this crochet baby set to our annual crochet/knit sale held next month at my church.

You can see below what the baby beanie and baby sweater look like together.  You can get creative and use any baby yarn and colored yarn you like for this project.

Crochet Baby Beanie and Crochet Baby Sweater

DETAILS:

The pattern to make this crochet baby beanie can be found here.

The yarn I used for this beanie is Red Heart baby yarn.  You can use whatever baby yarn or colors you like for this project.

I also used a size US I crochet hook.


I enjoyed making this crochet baby beanie and I'm happy that it matches with the baby sweater.  I hope I've inspired you to crochet this baby beanie or even crochet the whole set!


Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the week and weekend.

Hi friends, I finally finished crocheting the border for the crocheted granny square blanket.  Here is what the blanket looks like laid out on the floor.  


For the final border on the blanket I half double crocheted all the around the blanket.  I kept the border simple and I love the way the blanket and border looks.

I have crocheted yet another granny square baby blanket and this one I am happy to say I made for my nephew and his wife who are about to become parents to a baby boy in November.  I did not use the usual baby blue colored yarn because the last blanket I made was blue for my niece.  I wanted to try and use a different color combination and I like the green and yellow yarn that I used.


I enjoy crocheting granny square blankets and I never get tired of making them.  To make a granny square the post is HERE.  To make the blanket you just keep crocheting until the blanket gets big and I usually crochet 25 to 30 rows.


I added a border all around the blanket using the single crochet, half double crochet and double crochet stitches.

Thanks everyone and enjoy.

Julie

For any of my new followers on my blog I would like to let you know that I work all year round crocheting and knitting items for our annual Fall and Christmas Fair at my church.  I attend a crochet/knit meeting every Tuesday morning for a get together for all the members in the group.  We all knit and crochet for the fair that is held the week before Thanksgiving every year.  We also make items for the poor and for hospitals.  I usually like to make scarves and baby blankets and I have belonged to this group for ten years now.

Our Christmas Fair at our church is approaching soon and I finished crocheting this baby blanket last week that I will give to sell at the fair.  This blanket is an extended granny square and I like the yellow, blue and pink colors because it can be used for a baby girl or baby boy.  I made it so that it will fit into a baby infant carrier or in the bassinet.

Look at the edging I crocheted on the end of the blanket.
Here is what the baby blanket looks like folded up.
Thanks everyone and enjoy.

Julie

Today at my crochet club I worked on the finishing touches to the Granny Square Baby Sweater that I have been working on for a long time.  I started working on the sweater making the crocheted squares in June of 2012.  Then after I had finished making the squares I could not decide if I should crochet or sew the squares together.  Well after a lot of thought I figured out that I would sew them together and that took a lot of time and work.  Well I am so happy that I finished it and the funny thing is now that I have finished the sweater I can't decide if I should give it to our Christmas Fair sale at our church or save it for someone in my family!

For this sweater I used a pattern for crocheting from Lion Brand Yarn.  The pattern is Brand New Baby Sweater and Hat, pattern # 10392AD and it calls for Lion Brand Babysoft yarn.  I used instead Sidar Snuggly Magic DK yarn.  The Sidar yarn I used is from Wakefield, England UK.  This is the first time that I have attempted to make a baby sweater, so I am proud that I pushed myself to make something different and more challenging than I usually do.

Granny Square Baby Sweater by Julie's Lifestyle www.julieslifestyle.blogspot.com

Granny Square Baby Sweater by Julie's Lifestyle www.julieslifestyle.blogspot.com

Thanks everyone and enjoy.

Julie

I belong to a crochet group that meets up every week and today a new lady came to join the group and she said that she knows how to crochet.  Well she said that she forgot how to make a granny square since it was about 3 months since she last made one.  Well I sat down with her and showed her how to make a granny square step by step and then she said that it was starting to come back to her how to make it!  She sat there and started to make one on her own and she said she was so happy.  Well it really made me happy that I was able to sit and to teach her what she had forgotten.  Another person in the group knows only how to knit and she said that she also would like to learn and I said that I would sit and teach her also.  The granny square is great to learn how to crochet because once you learn that then you can make so many different projects such as blankets, scarves, pillow covers, and handbags!!

For the granny square you need to know how to chain stitch, slip stitch, and double crochet.

Here are the directions for the Granny Square:

Chain 4 and join with sl st to form ring.

Round 1:  Ch 3 to count as first dc, work 2 more dc in ring.  Ch 2 for corner.  Work (3 dc, ch2) 3 times, join with sl st to top of starting ch 3.  Sl st over the 3 dc into the next ch 2 corner.

Round 2:  Ch 3 for first dc, work 2 dc, ch 2, 3 dc in the ch 2 space.  *Ch 1, in next ch 2 space work 3 dc, ch 2 and 3 dc.  Repeat from* twice, ch 1, join with sl st to top of starting ch 3.

Round 3:  Sl st to ch 2 corner.  Ch 3 for first dc, work 2 dc, ch 2, 3 dc as before.  Ch 1 work 3 dc in ch 1 space, ch 1 work another corner as before.  Continue around in same manner, join with sl st to top of starting ch 3.

Here is a picture of the Granny Square I made:



Thanks everyone and enjoy.

Julie