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Preemie

15" square - 24" square

Isolette covers - usually quilted to keep out

the light = 36" sq. Baby

30" x 36" = crib sized

(6" squares= 5 across x 6 down ~ 30 sq)

Car Seat Blankie

16" x 22"

Children

42"x 48"

(6" squares= 7 across x 8 down ~ 30 sq)

Lapghan

often used in seniors homes

36"x48"

(6" squares= 6 across x 8 down ~ 48 squares)

Adult Afghan

48" x 72" = twin sized.

(6" squares= 8 across x 12 down ~ 96 squares

St luke is starting to give memory boxes and prayer shawls to mothers who have a stillborn baby.

The items needed are;

Small Baby Blankets,

Caps, Booties, Burial Wraps, Burial gowns( for girls and boys).

And Prayer Shawls for the mothers.

Please send what ever you can for this get cause.

Free Afghan Patterns, Baby afghans, and lapghans

http://www.purplekittyyarns.com/free-patterns/afghan-patterns.html

http://www.creativepartnersllc.com/Pattern-LoveLaceLingerie.html

go and check out this free pattern. It would make a nice nite gown for the summer.

Check out the stitchmarkers they are at the webstore and photos .

they are great to  mark your crochet and knit stitches.They go on real easy and off real easy

they are great

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here is a site that has afghans done in graphs.

The types of patterns that are on this site is.

Cars(The Movie) and some of the ones that was in the movie

Transformers

Batman, superman, Nemo

Mickey mouse and other disney

cinderella, tinkerbell,

sports ( all kinds of different teams)

Football ( all kinds of different teams to choose from)

It gives directions on how to do the graph.

http://www.donnascrochetshoppe.com/

This page tells you how to join the squares to make a afghan.

The kids can even learn how to join so that they can help you out.

It is real easy.

You will learn to to whip stitche squares together to form a afghan done in squares.

http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/joining.html

This pattern is easy.

it is a good afghan to make using your scrap yarns.

It gives different pictures of the afghan using different colors of yarn.

The directions are written very well and easy to understand.

Go here and check it out.

http://www.citiusa.com/clusterstitch.html

This afghan is made with little square.

It is easy to do  It even tells you how to change colors if you want to use two or three

color squares.

This is different than the Bearghan.

it is at Freepatterns.com

You must join to get all the free patterns that they have.

Joining is free.

http://www.freepatterns.com/list.html?login=1&criteria=FC00011&cat_id=297

This is an easy afghan to make.

It is made using single crochet stitches.

you repeat the pattern ,

it is real easy to remember how to do it after you do a few rounds.

http://www.citiusa.com/ripple.html

This is the cutest afghan that I have ever seen.

It even has the bear face.

It is fairly easy to make.
You can do it with large squares or small squares.

It tells you where to go for the different squares used in the pattern.

go here to check it out.

http://www.geocities.com/cdjsimon/bearghan.html

This hat looks really good.

it has a seamless version and one with seams.

I am a beginner in knit but I would give this pattern a try.

http://marniemaclean.com/patterns/Pismo/index.html

I thought that I would add some patterns working with knitting looms.

This is a very easy pattern to do on the knitting loom.

The pattern is for adults and kids.

to see the pattern for kids hats scroll down the page.

http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/chemo-slumber-cap.html

Here is a knit pattern for a chemo turban.

The directions are written very well.

they are easy to understand .

It also has pictures on how to do it.

http://www.elann.com/ShowFreePattern.asp?Id=150024

here is a very easy pattern to do.

It is done in single crochet.

The stitches used in this pattern are:

single crochet, slip stitch and chain stitch.

This hat is perfect for chemo caps and

for people who has had  brain surgery.

http://www.headhuggers.org/patterns/cpatt01.htm

Here is a pattern for preemies.

it is done in the back loops.

It is easy to do.

ths stitches you will be using is single crochet.

http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/umc-set.html

This hat is easy to make.

it can be made with scrap yarn.

The stitches in the pattern are:

chain,slip stitch, double crochet.

it also has directions to add a flower to the hats if you want.

This is Bev's site. She always has easy pattern.

It also has a link to matching booties

http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/hats-hats-hats.html

I thought that I would post a few links to sites that will teach you how to crochet.

You can go to these sites to learn to crochet or get a refresher course on stitches.

If you have trouble understanding on how to do the stitches just email me and we can use messengers

 on aol or yahoo and I will walk you thru on how to do the stitches.

http://www.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/faq-search.cgi?store=/stores/eyarn&learnToCrochet=1

http://www.learntocrochet.com/

This one is a real good one it has pictures and printable pages

 It has alot of different stitches to learn

http://www.geocities.com/snowymts.geo/crochet2.html

here is a site that has a video that you can watch on how to crochet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRsGeVk073w

here is a lapghan pattern that has a crochet and knit version.

it is a level 1 which means beginners can do it.

the crochet version uses the following stitchs:

 chains, double crochet , and slip stitch.

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=e06315