Thursday, February 16, 2012

Congratulations Jenny & Yuan - Baby Crochet Quilt

Congratulations Jenny & Yuan! Newly wed, now expecting parents!

For my godbrother and his new wife, who are now expecting, I made them and their expected baby a crochet quilt. Yuan's laughing because after years and years AND YEARS, I have been working on a knit blanket for him and to this day, it's still not completed. It'll probably never be completed...hehehe However, after dedicating all of January to the making of a baby blanket for them, it was completed as planned.

The crochet quilt is made up of little hexagon pieces.

Instructions for a single hexagon piece:
Chain 4, form ring with a slst
Chain 2, 19 DC inside the ring, slst to finish the first row
Chain 2, 5 DC inside first DC, skip 2 DC, 6 DC in next DC, repeat around, slst to finish second row
Chain 1, 5 SC inside first DC,  SC in next 5 DC then 5 SC in 6th DC, repeat around, slst to finish third and final row.
It takes 7 hexagon pieces to make a patch...
 There are 6 different colour patches...

Sewing each of the patches together...
 Makes this sweet colourful crochet quilt...
Congratulations Jenny & Yuan! Can't wait for your summer bundle of joy! I'm guessing it's going to be a boy!