August 30, 2009
Fuzzy Bathrobe
I am working on the bead banner, but I also decided to start designing a crochet bathrobe for my 4-year-old. I’ve been planning on making one for a while, since she always complains about being cold in the morning while she’s eating her breakfast.
I got some fuzzy purple yarn on sale a while back, Department 71 Baby Anna in lavender. It’s going to make a perfect bathrobe. I decided to try making it side to side, thinking I might be able to get away with no seams, but I’m not sure that’s going to work now. So instead, I’m just starting with the back piece, but still doing it side to side. I also wanted to find a neat stitch pattern to try out, from one of my little books of crochet stitch patterns, but with this yarn, any pattern is not going to be very visible. The yarn is too fuzzy and obscures any gaps. This makes it good for a warm bathrobe, however. So, I’m just going to stick with double crochets all around. Easy and quick, and makes a good texture for a robe.
sorts of odds and ends of things that just beg to be made into something. It’s a wonderful Christmas present, and I’m like a little kid looking over all the cool stuff I find inside. But now I have all these little pieces of craft items, and have to figure out what to make with them. I bought 2 small storage drawer containers to try and organize them all, so now I have more hope of making use of them. But it will probably be years before I use them all up.
Finished the afghan, and my daughter loves it. She kept trying to use it while I was finishing it, snuggling under one side while I worked on the border on the opposite side. And now she loves sleeping under it. This is my daughter who refuses to sleep under any sheets at all! At least the new afghan should help as colder weather approaches (not that it gets that cold here in Houston, but it’s all relative). Now, on to the next project.
I’m just finishing crocheting an afghan for my 4-year-old daughter, and it’s looking pretty good. It’s a free pattern from Coats & Clark, for Red Heart Super Saver yarn, that I picked up at the local craft store. It’s called “Crochet Floral Bouquet Afghan,” LW1575, designed by Joyce Nordstrom, and can be found at 
I learned how to crochet when I was little, taught by my grandmother mostly, and some by my mother. I did it for quite a while, but then got too busy doing other things (like going to school, college, getting a job, getting married, etc.). When my first child was about to be born, I decided I should take it up again and make something for her.
en I wasn’t pregnant – I had a hard time with all my pregnancies), and began to make more and more things. I finished an entire baby afghan for my second child before she was born. And then I finished another one for my third child during that pregnancy. But my poor first daughter never got an afghan made by me. She has tons of blankets and afghans from other people, but not one made by me, so I decided I had to rectify that. Thus, my current project.
