Mobile baby, Mobile

Item: Baby mobile
Yarn: Drops Safran, various colours
Grams: 50 g Yellow, 60 g other colours, 110 g in total

We're expecting our first baby, a little baby boy will join us in January. For his nursery, I have made this delicious mobile, using the frame of an old lampshade to suspend it from. The placeholder for the lightbulb now holds a cute little yellow sun, shining down upon the clouds, birds, trees and my little baby boy. 




I've crocheted the various elements, and the yellow trees are inspired from this Ferm Living bedding. They have tiny bells inside them, so that they make a tingling noise when disturbed.  A little birdie is perched on top of the lampshade, looking down on the (hopefully) sleeping baby. 

We all live in a Yellow Cushmarine

Item: Yellow crocheted cushion

Yarn: Heilo from Dale

Grams: 70 g


A cushion for the nursery, as yellow as can be. Is it a New York taxi? Or is it a submarine? Or perhaps a solar explosion? 

Crocheted on a needle size 4 mm, it is made entirely out of single crochets, starting with simple chain stitches, as many as you need to cover one length of the cushion (not the circumference, just one length). Then you start with the single crochet stitches, one stitch in each chain stitch. When you reach the end of the chain stitches, you continue stitching a single crochet in each chain stitch from the other side, adding some extra stitches in each of the two corners. Doing this means you can crochet round and round rather than back and forth, and still not have to sew together the bottom of the cushion, only the top. You'll actually make something that looks a bit like a bag, which you'll sew together at the top. 


The nice thing about crocheting cushions is that you don't have to fasten any loose threads, I simply just tie a knot when joining two threads, hiding the knot on what will be the inside of the cushion. It will never show! So I only have to fasten the final thread used to sew together the opening on the top of the cushion :)

Pram goes retro

Item: Pram afghan

Yarn: Loads of different ones, all from the 70s, corduroy backing

When I was a baby, my mother made this small afghan for me, intended as a cover for my pram, on top of the baby duvet. Isn't it gorgeous? Truly inspired, I think. It is primarily knitted, from loads of different yarns, some of them coloured with plant dyes by my mother herself. And the colours just pop, mostly reds and browns and oranges. And the backing is a brick red corduroy, matching perfectly! 


And now it is passed on to my baby boy, when he decides to join us in January some time. His pram will be the hottest pram in town!