Finished baby sweater project!

I finished up the sweater tonight. I'm so excited. I think it came out pretty good for my second attempt. I loved the little butterfly buttons. I was so happy to find them at Joanne's. I'm not very happy with the picture that I'm posting. The colors look a little off, but I couldn't seem to get them to come out right with my camera.



I also made a matching hat. I learned how to do front and back post double crochets tonight. I had a watch a few videos on You Tube to get the hang of it, but they're not hard to do at all. The bottom of that hat is finished with alternate front and back post double crochets, and I can run a ribbon through it. I just have to go a craft store and get some. I got the pattern for the hat at Bev's Country Cottage. I took the second picture (of the hat) with my cell phone, and, strangely enough, those colors came out truer.


Next I'm going to try a pattern for booties that I got on the same site. I hope my friend Nicole likes the set. I wish I would have found this yarn before I made the baby blanket. The blanket I made is pretty, but I really like this yarn. I made the blanket before I knew that Nicole was having a girl, so the blanket had to be unisex. It's just a typical white yarn with the little colors interspersed (I think it's called Twinkle Print). It is cute, though, and I know she'll appreciate it. In fact, the blanket was the first crocheted project I've made in a very long time, so I was impressed by how it came out.