A year of crochet

Apparently, I got busy and was supposed to post an update on some of my crochet projects back in January and now here we are, almost a year later. So instead I consolidated many of the projects I did this year into one post.

For last Christmas, I made my mom a table runner with some Christmas-colored coasters, and a scarf.

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For my sisters, I made a blanket wrap and a color block lap blanket.

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A bit later, I ventured into shawls. I made my aunt, mom, and grandma one, and then a gold-colored one for myself which I love using in my office. I’ve made two more throughout the year.

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I loved making coffee cup cozies, hats for the girls (I mean, seriously, look how adorable they look in them!), a big squishy blanket for my mom for her birthday, a drawstring pouch, and a variety of scrunchies. I also made a market bag this summer which I gave to my sister. I wanted to make another for myself because they are so fun but never got around to it. Olivia wanted me to make a sleeping bag for her Minnie lovie, so I free-handed one.

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Earlier in the spring, I made this gorgeous double-stranded blanket for Olivia. She loved it.

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I also made my first amigurumi, which of course was a snake plant to fit my love of succulents.

I made a blanket set for a friend’s girls, a few baby blankets for friends and my nephew, a rainbow blanket for Emelia, and a few others I gifted to people.

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I ended up donating the bottom middle blanket to the family that Emelia’s daycare was sponsoring and I hope they like the bright colors. I also donated them the scarf and hat set above, which looks so pretty.

I made the blanket below for my acupuncturist as a thank you for all she’s done in the last few years for me.

Crochet has become a passion. Next year I want to learn Tunisian crochet which is kind of a cross between crochet and knitting. I also want to learn how to knit. I started trying to teach myself a few days ago, but wow. It’s going to be a learning curve. Which I know how hard it was to teach myself crochet, but being that it’s so natural now, it’s hard to go back to something that’s so difficult to do.