Here is a baby blanket I made.  It's just a giant granny square.  I think my sister got this one.  I've been working on my photography skills since then. 

Ok now for the fun stuff, my craftiness.  I feel like I was always a crafty person.  I like to take stringy or flat things and make them into something useful.  My dad's mom was a craft instructor in the Chicago park district and knew how to do so many thing.  Knitting, crochet, painting, millinery and more.  My other grandma took apart my grandpa's pea coat to make coats for her daughters.  Between the two I think it may be a bit genetic. :) When I was about 10 I visited my paternal grandma and she gave me some cheap plastic needles and a hook and taught me knit and crochet.    I broke the needles in the car on the way home but tried to keep the crochet up. Sadly my mom, as smart as she is (she does calculus for fun) is not crafty and couldn't really help me.  I remember making friendship bracelets with embroidery floss and selling them to the kids in the neighborhood for .25. I remember getting some fabric samples from somewhere and trying to sew them together to make a Barbie blanket.  I tried to make a baby doll dress too, by tracing around the doll but forgot to account for the width of the doll.  When I was in fifth grade or so we got some sewing lessons from a lady at church who used to be a home ec. teacher.  I like sewing but the prep and the ironing weren't fun.  I didn't do many crafts in high school but when I went to college a couple of the girls were learning to crochet so I picked it up again.  The internet was still new then so I learned mostly from books I got from the library and a couple of people saying "why don't you try it this way?"  I took to it like a duck to water.  Well sort of.  Now when I look back at pictures of how I was holding the hook or the projects and cringe.  The first craft book I purchased was "Vanna's Afghans A to Z".  For a wile in college and our first few years being married I worked at Jo-Ann's.  I enjoyed being around so many creative people and things (also the discount and knowing about the sales).  When I got married I made my flower girls' dresses and did a lot of the decorations myself.  I started making tons of baby blankets in the one big granny square style (I hate joining so it worked).  I had a hard time finding garment crochet patterns that didn't look stiff and dated so I made more blankets.  I tried to pick up knitting again but I just couldn't figure out how to make it work and figured I would just be a crocheter. We (my husband and I) joined a reenactment group (more on that in nerdery) and since you can't prove crochet for that time period I decided to start spinning (I sewed for that too).  I bought a kit from Ebay and started to see what I could do.  The yarn was blue and poorly dyed because it came off all over my hands and the spindle.  The spindle was a heaver bottom whorl and I pre drafted. It turned out chunky and even thought I pre drafted I found myself fixing it even thinner.  I never learned park and draft as is usually suggested and it still turns out ok.  I eventually figured out how to use a top whorl but I find it "more fiddly" than the bottom whorl. About three years ago I discovered Ravelry (I'm Galdriel on there) and  my world opened up.  There were so many patterns and they didn't all look old.  There were people who didn't look down on crochet and groups of people who like the things I do.  I tried to pick up knitting again and I got the knit stitch but I couldn't for the life of me figure out purl. Someone on Rav., when I complained about it, suggested continental knitting.  It worked!  I'm not a good knitter by any means (yet) but I can actually do it.  I still do some sewing but I don't like all the prep work (washing fabric, ironing, etc.).  I also own a small triangle loom but I don't use it much.   So now my house is full of yarn and some fabric and I enjoy it.  This was a long explanation of my crafting but it was fun to reminisce.  If you have any questions let me know.  :)