all things knit and crochet

I made this baby blanket for some friends in Texas, they had a cute lil' baby boy         trying to figure out how to put the two together                  i finally settled on this pattern just changed the start color.                                                                              i did a backwards single crochet for the boarder (also known as the crab stitch)                                                    i really love these two patterns put together to create a unique blanket, i used a pinwheel pattern for the blue color and the pattern for the green color is called flower garland, i added three extra rows to the green color to make it the same size as the blue. both patterns are from the same book    leisure arts book ” our best baby afghans.  and then i just single crochet them together with a bright yellow, and then for the boarder i did reversed single crochet. both patterns were really easy to do, it's a good beginner blanket

here is the light house throw i made.

My mom has been crocheting since way before i was born, all my life she has tried to teach me to crochet, when i was about 7 or 8 i tried to learn but bot of us, (me and my mother) got really frustrated..so at that time i decided crocheting wasn't for me. so i figured i would give it another try when i was about 14, and had to same results, it was frustrating, i didn't understand what i was suppose to do, i kept messing up the stitches, which in turn made my mom frustrated so at that point, i swore of crocheting, and decided i would never be able to do it. well about a week later, my mom bought me some knitting needles, (although she had no idea how to knit) but we decided to try and see if i could do that, now i should probably mention, that she didn't buy a book to go with the needles, just the knitting needles, i sort of figured out how to cast on and played with it a bit, and after a while i figured it out, knitting was so easy! Well about 2 years ago i found this cro