You: Create - One More Time

I LOVE to crochet - especially baby afghans!  I almost always have at least one such project in progress but over the summer I had slacked off crocheting.  There are a couple of gals who are going to have babies in the next few months so I got busy crocheting.

I actually finished this afghan about three weeks ago.  Melanie's shower was this morning so I decided I needed to post photos and link to Gitz's You:Create blog post.

The pattern I used was a filet type of crocheting with seven rows of hearts.  While I was crocheting the third row of hearts I got the idea to put the baby's name in it.  So I searched for a filet crochet alphabet and worked on exactly how I could get Lainee in the space I had.  In my first attempt the letters were too small so I ripped it out and tried another way.  After ripping out about five times I finally got it looking like I wanted.  I originally thought I'd have three rows of hearts below the name and three rows above the name but it got to be too long.

All week I had planned on crocheting some baby shoes for the shower also.  Finally last night while I was watching the Texas Rangers win the ALCS, I did crochet these three pairs.  It took me about 4.5 hours to completely finish all three pairs.

I can't wait to meet Miss Lainee Ann and see her wearing her little shoes!