Mia's little toy book

Now that my little girl is 6 months old, she likes playing with fabric toys and books. This gave me an idea to make her a little toy book. I started by making 4 rectangular sheets of single crochet stitches. I used some leftover wool that I had left from other projects. I made them 30 cm wide and 15 cm long in different bright colours.

I then made different animals and picture appliqués. There are lots of inspirations on the internet for these. I used a pattern from Baby Blueprint Crochet by Robyn Chachula for the appliqué of a little dinosaur and Crochet for babies and toddlers by Betty Barnden for a little tractor pattern. I came up with a pattern for a littel yellow duck myself and used images on the internet for the others.
I sewed them onto each half of the sheets, so that when I fold the sheet in half the two different pictures would be on different sides. I then sewed together two different sheets, putting some crinkly plastic in between them. Once the pages were ready I stitched them together along the middle. I made a strawberry appliqué for the front cover of the book and embroidered Mia's name below it. I also made two strings for the front and back pages so the book can be closed.
Mia loves her little book and plays with it a lot and it makes it more special that it is personalised with her name.

Mia's Christening Shawl

I have made a shawl for Mia's Christening using the Tiramisu Blanket pattern again.
This time I made it slightly bigger than the other Tiramisu blanket, used white 300g of DK baby wool and I made the middle part in the same pattern as in the previous blanket.
For the edging I started with a row of single crochet to smoothen up the edging and to make it all even. I then made a row of dtr (double treble stitches, done by wrapping yarn around a hook twice), followed by another row of single crochet and another row of dtr.
I then started with five dtr with a chain between them into a base chain, skipped three chains, single crochet, skipped three more chains and made another 5 drt, repeating until the end. This was followed with a row of single crochet with three chains at every gap between dtr of the previous row.
I finished up the shawl with a white satin ribbon that was weaved through the spaces in the second row of dtr.

Mia had her Christening a couple of months ago and wore her special little shawl on that day.

Our little angel got so tired that she fell asleep while we were taking photos.