And the grannies keep on coming
Posted June 22nd, 2012 by Lisa
I loved this week’s Granny Square Sampler squares, with their circle-in-a-square themes. It’s got my wheels seriously turning in the direction of a new blanket design. Do I really need to make another blanket? No, probably not. Is that going to stop me? No, probably not.
I am amassing enough of a collection now, that I can’t photograph them all together on the cabinet top anymore. We’ve moved to the floor, folks.
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Meanwhile, as evidence of our completely different brain wiring, I’ve begun my Halloween crocheting for the year:
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Haha, yes, I can safely say I have never even considered crocheting myself a hat with antlers (not to mention, I don’t have a whole lot of use for Halloween, either). Still, impressive hat – you pull it off nicely
Hmmm…I’m having trouble with the second set of circles within a square. The final product looks NOTHING what you’ve shown above. Maybe my learning style and the pattern maker’s teaching style aren’t meshing. When you get to row 3 what did you do? row 4? This is where I’m having the issue.
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I did do things slightly differently than she said to. For one thing, I started the first round just like all of the other granny squares, and ignored her instructions completely. For round 3, I didn’t really get why she did an additional ch 1 at the beginning, so I eliminated it. My Round 3 looked like this:
For round 4, just think of it like this: You have 24 ch2 spaces from the previous round. In order to turn a circle into a square, you’ll need to turn four of those spaces into corners, and four of them into sides. The other sixteen ch2 spaces will get skipped.
So, starting in one corner round 4 looks like this:
Does that make a little more sense? I puzzled over the directions a little myself at first before they clicked.
This is a huge help! I sat there puzzling over the photo and eventually walked away thinking fresh eyes would do the trick.
I think this is a pattern that would really benefit from having a diagram. Then again, I LOVE working from the diagrams instead of a big block of text. [You're instructions have been very helpful though, thank you!]
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I haven’t quite gotten the hang of reading diagrams (I forget what all of the symbols mean) but I definitely find them helpful when the written instructions confuse me.
I think, really, what I’m a fan of is the idea of “plain english” instructions along with the technobabble. I mean, yeah, I can see you want me to ch3, 2dc, ch2, 3dc, but why? Explain to me that you’re trying to square off a circle and that set of stitches creates one of the corners, and I will be much better at internalizing the pattern.
Any of your new squares would be perfect for the Inga bag – http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ingas-hakelbeutel-2
I am working on my second bag now and using the Sunrise Sunset Afghan pattern for the squares and I just love it. Here is a link to my Ravelry page showing some of my squares – http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Francieos/ingas-hakelbeutel
I love all of your squares so far and can’t wait to see the finished project.
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Oh, Penny showed me that bag back when I first started in with granny squares! I love hat you’re doing with the sunny squares and bright colors!
As someone who is always cold & lives in Minnesota I truly believe you can ALWAYS use another blanket! So, I say go for it.
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I think you are enabling me
I love your collection of squares and the colors. I will have to try some of them. The idea of the different sizes in a blanket is really appealing. I took up polymer clay because I had made so many crocheted blankets that family members didn’t want anymore! LOL! But now I will need to try these.
That’s funny, because one of the things that first drew me to needlecrafts was the fact that I had made so much polymer jewelry and such that I’d saturated my family with them and needed something new to give – our stories are opposites!