First post of hopefully many!

Finally getting to do some more crafty stuff after taking about a year off to focus on my athletic side. I will try to update with some of my past creations later, but for now I'll focus on the present.

Today I made a moon pillow for a friend. They make great travel pillows for kids, as my goddaughter has two. Thankfully I bought the book from Red Heart with the pattern in it before it went out of print. I didn't stitch the face on this pillow like I did the previous ones. It just wasn't coming out right. This one I did in yellow. The yarn has been discontinued though, so when it's gone, it's gone. The last two I made were in blue. There is some yarn that is close to the original, just a little thicker, but should work well anyway.

I'm also working on an Anna and Elsa hat for a coworker's kid. I had made one for my goddaughter and one for her cousin about a year ago so I still have plenty of the yarn left. Below are pictures of the one's I've made before, as the other two are still in progress.

Mickey Blanket

So, my husband is a bit obsessed with Disney. I decided that for our second anniversary (2014) I would make him a custom Mickey blanket. Because of TM's and the like, there aren't any free patterns, and I'm probably not allowed to post what I did to make this one. Basically, I figured out how many Mickey heads I would need, then made that number of big circles and twice that number of small circles. I then stitched two small circles onto each big circle to make the head. From there it was all trial and error and a lot of free crocheting around the heads and then stitching them together. For the border I did a row in yellow than a row in black. Below are a series of pictures throughout the creation process.

All the Heads Ready to be Connected

Figuring out how to connect the heads

Making Progress

Before the Border was added

The Finished Product

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. It was a lot of work, and if I were to do another it probably would look a little different because I didn't keep track of my freehand connecting. There are a lot of different options for connecting the Mickey's that would make the blanket look quite different. I wouldn't mind trying something a little different in the future.