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Vintage Baby Blanket

Posted on by Vikki Lynn Sorensen

As soon as my daughter told me her sister-in-law was expecting a baby girl, I immediately began to look for a crochet baby blanket pattern.

I love vintage-type colors. I love color combinations that go beyond a basic “blue for boy and pink for girl”. So when I stumbled across this combination, compliments of Pinterest, I knew this was it.

For this blanket, I used Caron One Pound yarns in rose, succulent and off white. I did a simple continuous granny square with a single crochet border. Very simple, easy and quick.

I typically make my blankets bigger than normal as I like for them to be able to use them as toddlers. I remember when I was pregnant with Shelby and some kind soul made a blanket for her. She slept with that thing until she was 10 years old! It was her “pink blankie” and she loved it to shreds. Literally. It was beyond repaid when we finally laid it to rest.

So whenever I make a blanket, I like to give it some room to grow.

Do you have any favorite color combinations that are a little outside of the box?

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Fuzzy and Warm Crochet

Posted on 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 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.