Before and After

I believe I mentioned before that I learned how to crochet twice.  There was the first way, that was kinda right and got by unless I wanted something to actually match a pattern and then there was the correct way.  Since learning how to crochet "right", there are several projects that I have given away that I wish I could take back and correct.  My apologies to my first blanket recipients!

Last summer I decided to make blankets for my friend Shayna's kids.  I completed the small blankets in July but she and I weren't able to get together for me to give them to her.  Thank goodness.  I decided that I wanted to take the original blankets (done the old way) and use them to make new blankets.  

Both blankets are camo, so for Maddie's blanket I kept the pink camo and combined it with purple camo in a large granny square blanket.

This is the before (actually before the before since I was just starting it):

This is the after:

Close-up

Without a flash (to get a good look at the stripes)

As for Grayson's blanket, I took a basic plain camo rectangular blanket and combined it with a darker camo to make a wave blanket.  That one's not finished yet.  I'll include pictures of it when it is.

So at some point (before Shayna's kids are grown), I'll finish the second blanket and get them to her.  Until then, enjoy knowing at least what Maddie's blanket looks like!