Easy Snow-Dusted Pom Pom Winter Garland

Snow Dusted Pom Pom Garland on Mantle

I’ve been trying to up my DIY game this holiday season. While I ventured outside of crochet for this, it still gave me my yarn fix.

I saw what looked like snow dusted pom poms in a flyer a few months ago, and I decided I HAD to figure out how to make them. I instantly could visualize them in green and thought of this photo I took outside our old house in Germany:

Harvest Throw: The Easy Adaptable Luxury Blanket

Harvest Throw Adaptable Luxury Crochet Blanket

We’re finally completely and officially into Fall, and I’m loving every minute. I’m snuggled under my Rustic Tartan Throw and diffusing all the Thieves.

After doing a couple intarsia blankets, I was ready for a simple mindless project. But the best thing about this blanket is that you don’t have to be an expert crocheter to make it, and you can make it any size you want!

Jungle Beat Baby Blanket Free Crochet Pattern

Jungle Beat Baby Blanket Free Crochet Graphgan Pattern

Kind of like summer is “wedding season,” for some reason I feel like summer is also “baby season.” Maybe it’s just because right now I know of 3 babies all due in May – including my own #3!

Jungle animals & bright colors were the main theme for this nursery. If you’ve read any of my other baby blanket posts, you know I love the challenge of designing a blanket that coordinates with the nursery theme but still fits within my mission of making timeless, understated, and functional pieces.

Diamonds & Dots Baby Blanket Crochet Pattern

Diamonds & Dots Heirloom Baby Blanket Crochet Pattern for Baby Girl, Christening, Princess Nursery using Eyelets, Bobbles, Tassels

I’ve recently seen and fallen in love with designs made through eyelets, and I wanted to make my new girl something elegant but modern using this technique! Specifically I was really feeling a unique spin on a diamond design. For some reason the diamond designs were channeling “Disney Castle” for me. I think there are some diamond pane windows there. And obviously we’re all Disney princesses so it just made sense.

Baby Temperature Blanket Update #2!

Baby temperature blanket crochet pattern

I made few changes. The first was to my color scale. Once I started making it, the minty green just felt “colder” than the darker green. It was throwing me off visually so I switched those up. While I was at it I swapped the blues too, so that the lighter green would fade into the lighter blue instead of the darker blue. Here’s the final rundown!