Stash Bash

It's been a long while since I've crafted.  Too long.  It felt good to whip out the needle and make a little something up.  There is a baby shower this weekend for someone at church.  I thought that I should use what I had on hand to make the new baby a little something.  Funny thing...this is the first time I made something for someone outside my family.  After making up the gift I thought I should jump back into finishing off Jed's blanket that I was in the process of making some months ago.  I think if I start now I should finish in time for the cold weather.  Assuming we get cold weather this year.

I came across this very easy and very quick pattern.  I am so thankful I did as it was the one I used to make Jedidiah's sweater, which he never wore, that got passed down to Jonah and Aubrey.  I love that sweater, but didn't save the pattern.  I came across it on Ravelry.  It's called: Baby It's Cold Outside Sweater.  It is crocheted in one piece.  I love crochet for it's simplicity and the fact that you can get results in decent time.  I would like to venture more into knitting soon, but we'll see.  Knitting seems to be more of a foreign language to me.

For the booties I came across this great site called, Crochet Dreamz.  Really neat designs!  I bought the X-Strap shoe pattern and whipped them up last night and finished putting on the buttons and flower this morning.  I really love how they turned out.  Not perfect, but perfectly cute :-)

Just two pictures to share:

I only edited the photos since I couldn't get them to rotate!  Ha, ha! 

I'm sharing this on Crunchy Catholic Momma's blog, and Small Things blog.