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I thought I’d pop in a quick update on my granny square blanket before the weekend. I’m finally joining squares!
Commenters on the last post about this project recommended Carina’s excellent tutorial for this double-crochet joining method. I love how it looks! The purple needed a little extra width, and the join adds just enough.
(Apologies for the bad photo.)
Since we’re having no summer to speak of here in PDX, I’ve been able to work on this wool-based baby most days without discomfort. (This climate state of affairs is awesome when I want to work on my blanket, but the cause of much whining by me the rest of the time. I’m fickle that way when I need to wear my fleece in July.)
Some days, though, I’m not allowed to work on it at all.
This is not only my first blanket, it’s the first crochet project in my history that has progressed this far without turning hideous in my hands. When it’s done, I may just carry it around with me, Linus-style.
Happy Weekend, everyone!
Diane, your blankie looks fantastic!! Those colours really do work so well together. Clever you! and doesn’t Pushkin blend in well and look right at home on it? lol.
Have just done a little bit of a catch up on some of your posts and thoroughly enjoyed them all. Those macrame sandals(?) are a hoot, yes? I had talked about something similar lately, on a blog or two and in emails about something similar that my sister and I used to make more than 30 years (gasp) ago using raffia with a small flower loom. We would plait up a particular length of raffia, which would loop around the big toe, then tie up and around the calf area with the raffia flower sewn just above the big toe. Suppose you could have called us flower children?
I used to do a lot of macrame in my time, and this brings back memories for me. :)
Congrats on your Craft-Rumble victory too! Oh my, wish I lived much, much closer. Being in the audience for something like this would be on the top of my to-do list definitely! Just wish I could see your chandelier much clearer! Long live the Queen(of Rumbles)!! :)) xoxo
Thanks so much, Pam! I wish I’d had the presence of mind to get a better shot of that thing. So much happening at that point. :-/ I would LOVE to see a picture of those raffia sandals!
Head west on 99. It’s been in the 80′s & 90′s here in Lafayette! Cooler today at 77!
I’ll take it! Being warm feels awfully nice at this point. :-)
It looks great! I’ve been thinking about starting a granny square blanket soon. I haven’t made one in years and I have two big tubs of scrap yarn I’d love to work down to one. My Auntie Mae always made scrappy grannies.
Thanks! Grannies are such a perfect “chilling out” kind of project. :-)
congratulations on reaching the sewing up stage..i love the colours, especially the purple (it looks as if it has a fleck of red in it)..jane
Thanks, Jane! It does – it’s a stranded yarn, and a couple of the strands are red. I like the depth. The red in the center squares also has a strand of purple in there.
Looking good! Don’t know if you saw, but I just inherited a pile of grannies from my Granny, and now I need to learn to crochet and turn them into something fabulous :-) Thanks for the link to the joining tutorial… using a single color to join them all might be a great way to unify them…
Enjoy yourblanket in your less than summery weather!
What a wonderful inheritance! I saw how quickly you taught yourself to knit, so crochet will likely happen for you just as fast. I look forward to seeing the blanket!
Looks great and I love the colors! I’m going to use Carina’s tutorial when I get to the point of putting mine together also. Can’t wait to see it finished!
Thanks! Me, either. Hope you enjoy the joining method – it goes really fast once you get the hang of it.
Beautiful! I love it.
Yay you, I’m so glad you’re closing in on the finishing line, it will be an awesome quilt Diane!
i love how the colours look together :) and thank you for posting that link for the joining tut, very helpful :)
Ooh, that sounds amazing! I love the idea of giant squares. I’d love to see a picture when it’s all done!
This is so beautiful, Diane. I’m sharing it with my knitting friend. She loves blankets!
Love the blanket and the bright colours.
It’s good to see Pushkin supervising.
He’s the boss. :-)
Heh! I’d love to walk the CHA floor with it wrapped over my shoulders. :-)
Yay, that does look great, especially with the wider joins! I’ll have to keep that in mind for my next one. I am at the absolutely final step on my granny square blanket, of weaving in the ends (of the joins), and totally stagnating. I can’t believe I am 99.9-repitand% done and can’t bring myself to sit down for one night and just crank it out! I am blaming my distraction on my desire to cast on for 2 new cardigans, in honor of the summer that never came.
Heh! Your blanket will wait patiently until you’re re-energized. I know mine has, many times. I think I bought that red yarn from you about two years ago!
I love the colors that you used on the granny squares afghan. I’m currently crocheting an afghan in a popcorn stitch in the following colors: white, lime green, white, turquoise, white, purple, white, watermelon pink, white and repeat. Really pretty. I hope to make it into a bedspread for my q-sized bed.
Kay
Hi, I am looking for the pattern for this joining. I have a ton of granny squares and I don’t know what to do with them. and I think this would be a great solution.
Hi, Andrea – it’s linked right there in the post for you: http://www.wardi.dk/2009/06/granny-square-joining-tutorial.html Enjoy!