A Stich in Time

       So I crochet...a lot. At least when I have the time, and the month of March I had quite a few projects to be working on. I made three baby blankets, a firefly hat, and tried out a new pattern for a My Little Pony.

London got some My Little Pony figures for her birthday. She loves them and even insists on sleeping with them. They are made of hard plastic, so I thought it would be a good idea to come up with a softer, more cuddily version. I still need to get the mane and tail in and eyes. I thought it would be good to start with a smaller pony that doesn't have cutie marks. For those of you who aren't versed in My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic (one of the benefits of being the mom of a three year old little girl) there is a group of littiler ponies called the Cutie Mark Crusaders that haven't gotten their cutie marks. Cutie marks are these designs that are one the back flank of the ponies.

 I also started on a Twilight Sparkle. I have all the pieces, but still need to sew them together.
    
If anyone out there embrodiers, or has any good ideas how to make eyes and cutie marks I won't say no to the idea.  The person I got the pattern from used felt to make eyes and cutie marks and glued them on, but I think that would last all of  twenty seconds with London. So, I'm trying to find a better way to do it. And once I do, I will probably list them on my Etsy store. https://www.etsy.com/shop/LondonBugDesign

      Out of the three blankets I made two were a ripple or chevron pattern. I made them with alternateing colors and varying widths of pink. I think they turned out okay for a first try and went ahead and listed them on my store.


Six rows of pink between each color change
and slightly ribbed



Three rows of pink between each color change
and ribbed

      The third blanket was one that I had made before. It's pink and with green shamrocks. I really like doing the instaria or picture blankets. I've also done one with ducks on wavey water and I'm currently trying to finish a teddy bear blanket. I added the bows to make it more girly since it's for a little girl. I still have to add eyes, noses and the mouth to some of the squares. I post finished pictures when I can. Hopefully I 'll have more time to work on some more project ideas.