tillie tulip - a handmade mishmosh

Wow, it's been awhile since my last post. I've been busy (with life and) finishing up some custom orders - another purple flower throw for a very nice lady up in Michigan:

I also finished the blanket for baby Adam, the one year old with a rare cancer:

I was trying to think of things that might make a one year old smile, so I hope he likes it. 

My favorite part is the little car I came up with. It makes me want to say "beep, beep".

I also tried, for the first time, a binding method on the edges. It was quite a lot of work, but I really love how it came out. I shy away from double crochet blankets because the edges always look so raw. This process is like a quilt binding. It wraps the unruly edges: