Crochet Baby Blanket

I made this for my son to take it with me to India.

It got ready on time but it was little bulky.

Crochet Cap

I made this for my kid to go with the shawl that I made. Shawl coming up next...I dont' have the pattern for this, I just made this using his headsize. Made this in little less than 2 hours.

But, he wore it may be little more than 5 times and now it does't fit him any longer.

Crochet Butterfly Throw

I made this using the butterfly pattern show below. I kept expanding the design until it reached my desired size. I remember taking it work and crocheting it in break time in order to finish it on my time for my mom. She kept that safely back in India.

One day me and mom were sitting in the backyard and on the swing. She then asked me about my hobbies and how far I have, I showed her all the yarn lying in the boxes in the garage and she saw this beautiful butterfuly pattern that I was making as a door hanger for a colleague. She liked it to much, she requested me to make one for her. I went and bought yarn from ACMoore and made this in less than 15 days. She simply loved it.

Wall Hanging-Blackwork

When I was sitting in a Library couple of years back, I found this book called Black Work Embroidery. At that time I was a student doing my MS in Computer Engineering and I had loads and loads of homework to complete. But, picked up that book, took it home and was amazed to see different designs. Then I had to keep it aside as I had to concentrate more on my paper work.

Then after few years, married and when pregnant, I wanted to learn something new to remember that I did something useful and not just sat around doing nothing. That is when I thought about this Black Embroidery and went back to the local library. Actually I had forgotten the name of the book and had to do a lot of search but luckily found it and the next project was to buy the aida fabric. I then started searching on eBay and found it to be very expensive. Later made a trip to Michaels and found the aida fabric and the price was less, so I grabbed a large piece and walked home. I picked up a nice design from the book that had various stitches and then started drawing the outline with a pencil. Half way through realised that it is going to get very big, so I took it only 1/4th of the design and made it shorter and here is how it looks.

I badly wanted to work this on a white fabric to make it as a saree for my mom, but never got the fabric. Someday, I will and someday I will make it.