jsrnazvile message #1
Hi all from SE TN!
February 22, 2016 at 11:21:56 PM
 
Hi all, I am a mom of 4. My oldest is 22 and in the Navy, then I have 15, 12, and 9 yr olds or 9th, 6th and 3rd grades!. I keep very busy during the day volunteering in the elementary school and then between indoor soccer, select soccer, outdoor soccer, school soccer, basketball, aau basketball, school basketball, track, everyday appointments and life, well, you get the picture:)! I say that to say this, I ALWAYS have a crochet project going and with me so I am not yelling and hollering at my kids during the games... they hate when I do that! 

I am really looking forward to this group and learning a lot! I consider myself to be very proficient at stitching but horrible at reading patterns unless they are written out:(. I want to make (or worst case buy) a bag to take with me, with at least 4 divisions or sections that will hold up to anything!!! 

My current project I'm experimenting with as I have never made my own pattern and never done anything requiring changing colors or yarn and this will require both!!! I want to make my daughter in the Navy a navy blue blanket with a large yellow gold anchor in the center and USN in red over the top of the anchor. I'd also like to have her last name in smaller letters on the bottom centered on the anchor. This is what I have and I need to make the USN slightly larger and the Vile slightly smaller but yet still readable in crochet.

If anyone can fix it so it doesn't look lopsidded size wise, meaning name is bigger than USN, or make the anchor bigger so the USN and name don't look out of proportion, if that makes sense, I'd greatly appreciate any and all help or input:)! Thank you in advance!!!

 I am new here and relatively new to crochet but not to cross stitch and other crafts:)! I'm a mom of 4, one in the Navy, 9th, 6th, 3rd grades. I keep very busy but ALWAYS have my crochet with me:)!!!