Busy, Busy, Busy Crocheting!

Whew, haven't blogged for awhile. I thought working at home full-time would leave me more time to blog but it feels like I'm more swamped now than when I was at corporate! Working for myself, I never thought I'd be a very demanding boss :D

Anyway, I've been busy as a bee with three clients at oDesk, putting up a Facebook page for my other popular blog Pinay Single Mom (like it please!), continuing to serve in our Catholic community at the Makati Feast and of course crocheting!

I'm happy my sister Cha, who is the other half of millicentmelissa Handmade Accessories, is busy with crocheting again after quite some time. She's been creating these beautiful crochet trimmed diapers which was actually got me started crocheting three years ago when I made these for her newborn son Asti:

Crochet trimmed diapers by Cha

Dainty burp pads for your baby :)

Still working on the crochet bracelets for the girls of my swap meet at our Facebook group Philippine Crafters Association. Here's one I finished using crochet broomstick lace also known as jiffy lace (click on the link for the pattern):

Broomstick lace Bracelet

Pearl button closure

Cha also asked me to create crochet baby booties to pair up with her crochet trimmed diapers and here's one of my first studies:

Crochet Baby Booties with Bullion Buttons as the toe top

Now to work on the straps...

 
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What Got Me Started Crocheting...Again

Most of the women in our family on my Mom's side were always avid crocheters. I remember growing up in my Mommyla's (my maternal grandmother) house where all the full-length window curtains were crochet and there were more than a dozen windows in that big house! It was a craft project by my Mom and Mommyla in the 70s. Mommyla's handmade shawls were prized gifts back then.  Then there were my Grandaunts, Mama Leng and Auntie Bobie who created beautiful doilies and chair dresses. My Mom's last crochet project before she passed away in 2001 were crochet-trimmed cloth diapers for her first grandchild, my son Marti so when my sister became pregnant with her first child last year, I decided to carry on the tradition by making these diapers.

I found this fabulous tutorial from the Jennifer Slaugh of the http://www.mormonchic.com which I hope would also inspire you to start a project like this. It's so unique I haven't found any store here that sell these so it would be a very nice baby shower gift. 

Here's how mine turned out:

Would recommend you use Monaco mercerized crochet yarn which I bought from Carolina's Glorietta 5. Monaco is cheaper and they have monochromatic and multicolored yarns. There's also a brand called Cannon although they're a bit more expensive than Monaco (well not much, I think there's a P 1.00 price diffrence).

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