My Daughter's Long Shirt

Here is the first thing I made for my daughter... its a long shirt (or short dress, depends on how you look at it, lol).  I think I did a fair enough job, although in this photo, it is not totally finished (no buttons or edging!) because someone was feeling impatient to put it on and take a photo.

I think the model is the the cutest thing in the photo though ~ beautiful Imogen is 5 years old :-D

A Queen Sized Bedspread...

I am making a Queen sized bedspread out of a beautiful variegated yarn that my sister bought me for Mother's Day... it is a combination of a maroon colour, pink and white.  I am making these 6" (15cm) granny squares in Extended Double Crochet, then doing an half inch border around in white (to be joined together).

At the moment, I have done 13 squares (without the white).  Once I have fourteen, then I am going to crochet in white around the coloured squares, then join them together in a strip.  This is one row (width ways) of the bedspread.  My mum helped me calculate how many of everything I had to do, to do it as wide as the bed, plus adding the overhang, based on the queen bed being 60" x 80".  Our final calculations are: the spread will measure 84" x 102" ~ and this means it will be fourteen squares by seventeen squares.  The total number of squares I will need to make is... 238!!!! Eeeeeeesh, this blanket will take forever, and a day ~ but it will be worth it :-D

Now, doing that many squares may get monotonous, so I am thinking up another project to crochet for the 'in between times' when I am feeling so over doing squarey square squares ~ I'm off to search the web for inspiration!