I’ve been dying for ages to show you what I did for my friend’s little one. The only slight problem was that I haven’t seen her till now because of the whole festive day’s thing.  And I wanted it to make it sort of a surprise.  You should know about me that I’m most likely the worst surprise maker in the whole world. I can come up with an idea make it and then get sooo excited about it that I want to share it now, instantly, not wait till the actual day… I know it’s quite bad but it’s primarily because I’m sooo excited that I want to see the smile of the recipient that I just can’t wait. But I had to be strong for this one. As she is reading my blog there was just no way that I could have posted this before. I must admit that I put some teaser pics on Instagram before but I’m fine on that front as she isn’t using Instagram ;). Anyways I was nearly bursting as I had this blanket, for what seems likes centuries, waiting to finally give it to her. And today was finally the day :) And now I’m able to show you her blanket :)

Elefant on Blanket close up

Amelia’s New Lovey

The basic of this blanket is Dedris’ wonderful Grace lovey pattern, and here the ravelry link if you want to add it to your queue. Dedri states in her pattern that you can get “crazy” with the actual blanket bit and that’s what I actually did. Even though I like the simplicity of the original I’m just really into the blanket stitch I used for blankets for my bedroom and livingroom. I ended up making the blanket 21 by 20 clusters as I wanted it to double up as a little blanket for her car seat, which gave the blanket a finished size of 40 by 40 cm.

Blanket

The blanket was made out of stash yarn (Stashbuster yeah!). It’s Bonus DK in a rose, grey and beige, which is becoming much softer after washing. But to be honest who doesn’t wash a blanket, which they give to a small child?

I bordered the whole blanket with simple half double crochet (half treble crochet, UK term).

Blanket with boarder

Dedris’ pattern for the elephant head was very easy to follow and I loved the fact that it was a join-as-you-go!

Elefant Head

I thought that something was missing on little Grace’s head so I attached a little bow to it.

Elefant with Bow
Elephant with Bow
Elephant on Blanket close up
Elephant on Blanket
Head

As I wanted to make the blanket especially for Amelia so I crocheted her name and sew it onto the blanket. Free patterns for the alphabet can be found on Moogly.

Letters
Blanket
Blanket
Amelias new Blanket

If you like the blanket why not just hop over to Dedris’ page to get the pattern. I would love to see a picture of your blanket if I inspired you to make one yourself, so please feel free to post one to my Facebook wall.

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I’m San and I’m the voice behind Loopsan. I’m a scientist by day (oh-no nerd alarm ;-)) but at night I turn into a crafter with heart. I love to crochet, bake, travel, keep memories in photographs and love everything DIY.

8 Comments

  1. Oh San!!! It is gorgeous!!!! I love the stitch you used for the blanket and I’m sure other people will want to know where to find it…would you kindly share a link?

    • San Reply

      Thanks Dedri :) I used the stitch in two blankets before and its called blanket stitch. Basically a simple combination out of sc and 2 dc’s. Think the link to the phototutorial is on the bedroom blanket page but I’ll dig it out for you again :) x

  2. wow oh wow lovely. dedri has such fun patterns. you adapted this so well.

  3. Hi, found just the right baby blanket for our first great-great granddaughter who’s name just happens to be Amelia, mom loves elephant and the color pink/white.

    Looking forward to giving this as a gift to her.

    thanks, gloria

    • San Reply

      Thats lovely to hear! Can’t wait to see how your finished blanket will look like :)

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