52 thing for charity

[mama2toomany]

I am joining a charity group here in MN and my goal is 1 thing a week this year,

I am super excited, so the baby dresses I make, some preemie stuff, and doll blankets and stuff like that I am doing.

I can't do ami because I have very poor eyesight (legally blind, not Blind but legally blind) I can see shapes, colors and stuff but small detail I can't see.

I am super excited.

the doll blankets I am doing are very basic hdc for a row, dc for a row...

anyone have any cute doll blanket patterns? I really suck at granny squares. for some reason I just can't make a circle and put corners on it. I am pretty good at most crochet stuff, but the granny square eludes me.

anyway, if you have any super easy (not small gauge) projects that are crochet please let me know!

[Sagesgirl]

Check out Bev's Country Cottage:
http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/baby.html

Here are some of the patterns I can vouch for personally:
http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/preemieround.html This is the pattern I used as a starting point in '07 when I did 40 Hats in 40 Days for Lent, an idea I got in this forum. It uses a smallish hook, but worsted weight yarn, and the hats work up fast.

http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/bevsbooties2.html With this pattern and the one above it, if you want, you can make nice hat/booties sets that are very simple & easy.

Both of those patterns use just normal double crochet. So there's nothing complicated or hard to see!

http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/baby-shirt.html This is a little shirt made in worsted weight yarn. It's a little more complicated than the other two patterns, but not much.

http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/onesie-robin.html If you can make the shirt, you can make this onesie. It also uses WW yarn.

I don't make many blankets. Don't have the patience. But I've made a couple of circle blankets that were very well received, and of course there are just so many simple stitch variations you can use. If you do one single crochet, one double crochet down the row, you'll get a nice, nubby fabric. (It doesn't matter if you stack DC on top of DC & SC on top of SC or put SC on DC & DC on SC; each will give a slightly different but still very nice look.) Another thing you can do is DC twice in the same stitch, skip the next stitch (or sc twice in the one stitch, or HDC twice in the same stitch, doesn't matter). The trick with this one is to start out with an odd number of stitches, & put just one in the last stitch, to keep a nice straight edge. Those are the simplest I can think of, and of course if you've got a beautiful yarn--I love the Simply Soft Heathers, and they're no more expensive than the "regular" Simply Soft--it will look great with just straight double crochet.

[mama2toomany]

Thank You very much~