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Recently, Ana,another of my closest friends had a baby girl, and to keep up with tradition I made this blanket for her.

I have to admit I am bit late since her little girl was born a couple of months ago, but this one took me a while to finish, not because it was difficult, I have been quite busy with other stuff.

Anyway, this granny square was actually quite easy to do, just had to make a bunch of them in different colors. I got the granny square pattern from SmoothFox.

You can get many options for borders at CrochetCabana.com. I used number 3 at the bottom of the page.

And now the last step is to mail it to her courtesy of DHL post.

Flower Pattern by SmoothFox. Yarn: Australian ModaVera Marvel

For starter crocheters I recommend to buy a book or a couple of easy patterns to practice and learn and from there just let the imagination go wild and you can create amazing things.  For some ideas you can go to the links I have posted on the side bar of this page.

Myself, I am just a beginner as I don´t have much time to practice but I been crocheting since I was a little girl, taught by my grandma and my two crafty aunts. Later on, it was revived by my former boss and great friend. A big thanks to all four of them and this post is dedicated to them. 

My giraffe amigurumi (who is missing it spots) was based on Roxy Crafts pattern, you can find the link to the website on the right side of this page, this is a very talented crocheter that I love too.

And the Panda amigurumi was inspired on the same patterns.




By the way the Panda, I dedicate to my other aunt Pinky (yes half of my family is named Pink, not me though) who pass me the love to nature.

A couple of years ago I created these baby blankets for my nephews. They turned out to be great gift and my friends were surprise I could do such things... hmm that kind of worried me a little bit...

The first one was inspired on one of my favorite crochet books ( I admit that I have a few of those) Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker by Debbie Stoller and I just love the name of the book its so creative. I order it on Amazon. Click on the links to go to the site.

Here are a few pictures of the blankets. 

The second one bellow its inspired by my aunt little Pink... who showed me the technique.

 Hello earthly kingdom!
Instructions: So basically, he cut a hole in the middle of the cap with a swiss knife and made it bigger with a screwdriver, then he cleaned the dust and the scrap off from around the hole. Finally, to make sure that the yarn wouldn't get caught on the way out the hole, he used a hot iron to burn around the edges of the hole to smooth them out.