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My First Set

Posted on January 3, 2026December 24, 2025 by Vikki Lynn Sorensen

If you know anything about me and my love for crochet, you know the C2C (corner-to-corner) stitch is my favorite. Up until now, I’ve made one scarf and several blankets using this stitch—and honestly, I’m always looking for an excuse to use it again.

One of my goals for 2026 is to focus on smaller, more manageable projects, especially wearable items. I decided to get a jump on that goal by creating my very first scarf set.

This set is made with Lion Brand Heartland Tweed yarn in Mount Rainier, using a 5 mm crochet hook. The gloves and scarf are both done in the C2C stitch. There’s no pattern for those—I completely freehanded them. The hat is a simple double-crochet repeat made using a pattern by Kylee Keller.

I absolutely love how this set turned out. It feels cozy, wearable, and like the beginning of a whole new chapter of projects. 🧶✨

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Finished!

Posted on December 27, 2025December 24, 2025 by Vikki Lynn Sorensen

My favorite thing to crochet is blankets. There’s nothing quite like snuggling under something I’ve made with my own two hands—soft, warm, and full of love. I also love giving blankets as gifts. There’s something special about wrapping someone else in comfort you created stitch by stitch.

Blankets take forever to make, especially since I work a full-time job and juggle a full-time life. Still, there’s always a deep sense of pride when I put in that very last stitch and officially declare a project done.

This blanket is one I started early in the summer. It was set aside more than once in favor of other projects (hello, WIPs). When I picked it back up, my goal was simply to finish something. From there, it evolved into a yarn-stash project—I have a TON of this yarn and wanted to put it to good use. Then it became a Christmas gift, which added the extra challenge of finishing it within a specific time frame.

The C2C (corner-to-corner) stitch is by far my favorite. It’s very beginner-friendly and works up quickly. I think this is my 10th or 11th blanket using this stitch, and I have absolutely no plans to stop making them.

Caron yarn is also a favorite of mine. It’s soft and squishy, washes well, and truly stands up to the test of time.

So here it is—the finished product, made with Caron One Pound yarn in white, using a 5mm crochet hook.

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Lake Mist and Seashells

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Vikki Lynn Sorensen

Amidst all the packing going on here, I managed to finish this C2C crochet blanket. I’ve been obsessed with these colors ever since I saw this yarn. It’s by Caron and it’s called Lake Mist. Fitting since these colors remind me of water. I was thinking more sea or ocean but I guess “lake” works well also.

I’m making a sister blanket using Caron yarn called “Seashells”. I can’t wait to see them both side by side.

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Fuzzy and Warm Crochet

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Vikki Lynn Sorensen

I’m a scroller.

I get on Instagram or Pinterest each night when I go to bed and I scroll through both, pinning ideas to a virtual board or saving them to a new collection.

I have tons of yarn and tons of patterns and ideas saved to both. Yet still, the second I see something new that inspires me, I have to go for it. Such as was this blanket.

The actual pattern and idea for this can be found at https://cjdesignblog.com/not-your-abuelitas-blanket/ and it’s called Not Your Abuelitas Blanket.

I couldn’t wait to make this. Now, here’s the thing. It’s important to know your yarn, I believe. I’d never worked with Bernat blanket yarn before this project so I struggled with this just a bit as a beginner to chunky yarn.

Yet I persevered and within a week, I had a happy pile of perfect squares.

I also subbed out a few colors since my Joann’s didn’t have the exact colors in the pattern. No worries. This is where creativity comes in (and where I start to battle the perfectionist side of me).

Joining them was another story and something I really do need to practice with this grade of yarn. Nevertheless, I did my own thing here and I don’t think it came out too bad.

This blanket is on my bed now as my fall covering and I have to say I love it! My blanket base is a simple white cotton quilt on which I like to add seasonal, handmade accents from blankets to pillows (eventually). It’s very soft and just that right weight and warmness (my own word) not to overheat this very menopausal girl.

This pattern – total hit for me! So glad I made it and I can’t wait to make more and perfect this technique.

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Shelby’s Blanket

Posted on October 18, 2023October 3, 2023 by Vikki Lynn Sorensen

I no sooner finished Emilie’s blanket and got her married and all settled when Shelby asked me for a blanket for her bedroom. She wanted red/white/black colors. I went through a few Pinterest posts before settling on the one I chose which was a simple granny square blanket.

This was created using Red Heart Super Saver yarn in cherry red, black and white with a 5mm crochet hook. Each square is 18 rounds and I made 16 squares. I sewed them together and used a granny square stitch as a border. It’s huge! And she loves it! As always, I washed the blanket in Woolite in order to soften up the yarn a bit. Low heat, of course.