Crocheted Doll Blankets

I have two daughters who have spent hours playing with their dolls:   changing their clothes, putting them to bed, having tea parties.  There is a certain pleasure in watching your little girl mother her doll.  You catch glimpses of their grown-up selves being real mamas to your grandchildren one day.

I wanted to foster the mother instinct in my girls.  One way I did that was to provide things they could use in their play.  I made a couple of cloth diapers for their baby dolls.  I whipped up a couple of doll slings.  I bought a number of really cute doll dresses.  We were given two wooden doll beds and we painted them a nice crisp white.  Then I stenciled a pretty pink design on each end.

So now their dolls were all set, except that they had NO covers when they slept at night.  :)  Which led to this:

These worked up very nicely, but are quite simple to make if you can crochet.  It is a basic granny square using alternating colors and is finished off with an Irish Rose crocheted flower attached to the center.

These make a nice gift for a little girl and aren't very time consuming to make.  You need less than a skien of each color, so the cost isn't high, making this a good way to stretch your gift budget.

I also sell these, mostly during the Christmas shopping season.