Baby Tutus

I have loved crocheting tutus lately! I think they are just adorable. The problem is, I keep giving them for baby shower gifts and so I don't really know what they look like on because none of the babies have been born yet. I'll have to get some pictures of our baby in hers when she arrives. I'd love to make some more so if anyone is interested in getting one from me let me know!

This one went to my cousin who's baby is due in June

This one to a girl I work with who's baby is also due in June, I love the colors and am making one for my own little girl.

This one I just lined a couple layers with a color instead of making the whole ruffle a different one. It won't fit our baby until she's a year old

Idea for this tutu came from this website but I altered it a bit but it's a great one to follow if you don't know how to alter it yourself!

Hopefully we will be able to afford a nice camera soon so I can take better pictures of the things I make, cross your fingers for me;)

Baby Items for Baby Timmy

One of my sister in laws just had a baby boy and named him Carson. I made him a blue hat that was supposedly newborn size, but when it was put on his head it was huge on him! I guess I'll make premie sizes from that pattern for newborns from now on. My other sister in law that we live in the basement of is having her baby sometime soon! If she doesn't go into labor soon, they are going to induce her because she hasn't been having the easiest time the last couple weeks poor girl. Here are some things I made for her baby Timmy when he comes.

Hat and booties

peepee teepees! much needed neccesity for boys

front of Bapron

Back of Bapron

Shoes:)

bottom of the shoes

Crochet hat comes from here, Peepee teepees from here, Bapron from here, and the shoes from here.

Gala Crochet Items

I'm pretty bummed out, I completely forgot to take pictures of everything I made for my school's upcoming Gala. I did take pictures of some things before I had finished them and a picture of my work table that I'll post. There aren't pictures of the two baby girl hats or the two baby boy hats I made....but I'm sure I'll make lots of them in the future.



Gotta have my Dr. Pepper while working

They looked much cuter when they were finished but that's the only picture I have! I made 8 baby headbands, 4 adult headbands, 2 baby boy hats, and 2 baby girl hats. It kept me a little busy! I plan to open up an etsy shop one day but I need to start making my own patterns for that. Anyone have any tips to go about creating an etsy shop?? I'd love some pointers!

Chunky Scarfs

Here are pictures of the scarf I gave my mom for her birthday, and also the one I made for myself. I followed the tutorial from this blog. I did however switch it up for the one that I made for myself.




The one for my mom. Followed the pattern just right



This one the edged are scalloped instead of ending on the straight rows. I like it better this way but that's just me

Not a cute picture of me at all but I wanted to show the little bit different of look this one has. I made it thinner and a little shorter also.

Covered Seats and Blue Table

Here is my table before I started my project

I painted it and our stools with four coats of blue paint and then covered the stools in fabric.
Her is a tutorial on how to cover stools!

Materials needed:
1 yard of material
1/4" elastic around 2 yds of it.
Wood glue if you want them to stay more put on the seat.
(Note: I used this much fabric to cover 4 seats. Also tutorial is for one seat cover, repeat to make more.)

1. Lay your stool upside down and trace the circle added a 1/4" seam allowance. I held my pencil strait down from the edge of the stool and it gave me the 1/4" allowance that I needed because of the shape of the stool.

you can angle you pencil in to trace the exact size of the circle and then add 1/4" seam allowance, Or: 

You can put the pencil straight up and flat on your edge to get the extra 1/4".

My circle's diameter is 11 3/4".

2. Cut a strip that is 38" by 4". This is the circumference of the stool. If yours is bigger or smaller change the dimensions to fit yours.

3. Sew the ends of your strip together, right sides together. 

4. Fold and iron strips 1/4". Once you have done this all the way around, fold another 1/2" and iron.

5. Edge stitch strip. Leave 1/2" hole for the elastic to go through.

6. Pin your circle and and the raw side of your strip together, right sides together.

Sew with 1/4" seam allowance.

7. Cut a piece of elastic 26" long. Put a safety pin at the end of the piece of elastic and thread it through your 1/2" hole on your strip. Sew ends of elastic together after you have pulled it through the whole strip.

Then sew the hole shut.

8. At the end they look like this

And here is my end product!

Monster hat

Here are some hats I made a little while ago for my great friend Leanna! She is having a baby any day now and it is her first baby boy. Even though it isn't cold out....newborn pictures are so adorable with a cute hat and I made one big enough for him to grow into for the winter.

I followed this pattern for the monster hat

And for this hat I followed Allie's pattern but added a few things to it.

I'd love to start selling my own hats but I don't know how to create my own pattern! hopefully someday I will be able to make my own and start an etsy shop. If anyone has some pointers on how to do that, let me know:)

Past Crochet Projects

I've always wanted to learn how to crochet so I went to walmart and picked up a book called I taught myself how to crochet. It was great! It definitely took me a while to figure out exactly what the book was showing me to do but after their helpful videos they provide with the kit I was able to get it. I love crocheting! I feel like there isn't a lot that I want to make for myself but there are lot's of cute things that you can crochet for babies and I'm excited to have my own to make things for.

My first project was this scarf. I completely did it wrong for the first three layers and had to start all over but eventually got it.

For my niece Eleanor I made a newborn hat that looks much cuter on her than it does here but here it is.

I liked it so much I made one for my older niece. It took me a while to guess on how many stitches I needed to add to fit her head.

It wasn't her favorite thing to wear

 For my nephew Cannon I tried making him a hat that he could wear over his helmet that he needed to get to fix his head. I made it a bit bigger than his size to make sure it would go over the helmet and it ended up being huge! He will have to wait till next year to grow into it.


His room is decorated in owls so it had to be an owl hat

For winter I made myself and my friend Mckenzie for her birthday this hat. It looked cuter on me with my long hair but I'll still wear it with my short.


It hangs a bit in the back to make it a slouchy beanie

This bag was for my niece Ruby's birthday. She is one that loves to play dress up so I thought it would be perfect for that.

This past general conference that was on April Fool's day gave me an opportunity to work on another project. I crocheted flower headbands for three of my nieces but I tried to use them for an April Fool's joke by telling my family they were actually for our baby. My family at first didn't believe me but as I continued to try to convince them and started crying in the process they didn't know what to believe. I still don't know why I was crying, I guess because I really wish it were true! It ended up not being a very funny joke. Especially when my dad leaned in to give me a hug to congratulate me. Whoops!



One was opposite in color, and another one had a large flower with a small flower in the middle of it.

Crocheting has been lot's of fun and it definitely is not just for old people! I love it and can't wait to make more baby things when I have kids of my own.