Do you love granny squares?

no, i mean really love granny squares!

i sure do and have found a few friends online who also love granny squares.

one of those people is adaiha over at things to make and do, who is in the mist of making a granny square for each day of this year! brilliant right! adaiha has been a constant inspiration for me since i discovered her blog and i always look forward to seeing what she will do next.

her newest coolest thing is a downloadable background for your computer that features all of the granny squares shes made this year.....i know you want it...i sure did.

above it what it looks like but now imagine it as your desktop.....go here to download your very own and while your there, take a look around!

my life has been full of secret blanket crocheting so i have nothing new of my own to share with you. i hope you are all happily crocheting the summer away and i'm looking forward to sharing with you my blanket when i'm done it!

melissa

Day 11: Flowery Square!

Good Morning!

I'm tired this morning and haven't been doing much crocheting other then the blankets I've been working on....but I do have a square to show you!



This is Flowery Square by my dear friend, Adaiha!

Adaiha is one of my inspirations for this whole CAL and while we've only been blog friends for a few months, I always get excited my her blog!

I loved making this square but didn't realize when I added it to the list that it is only 8 inch. This is a quick fix by adding more rows of dc.

You should really check out her blog and this really great post about blocking! I haven't been blocking my squares but I know some of you are, so I thought it would be great to share. Adaiha is the queen of the granny square as far as I'm concerned!




Don't forget to link your pictures!
m

Mind the corner!

Hi everyone,
I thought I would post a link to Adaiha's blog and the post she did about her experience with corners and attaching squares.

I know many of you have started working on the squares and as I've been working on them I have noticed that many of them do not leave space in the last row at the corners. In the post you can find here, Adaiha explains the importance of having at least 2 chains in each corner.

As I understand it, if you don't leave that space you will have a difficult time when we are attaching the squares. So, I'm making sure that as I'm doing the last row in each square I'm making at 2 or 3 chains in each corner. This is easy to do and will save you time and energy when it comes time to join....just though I would give you the heads up!

Sorry there have been zero pictures on my blog lately! I have been crocheting nothing but these squares for a couple of weeks not and have had no projects to share...I am resisting taking pictures of my squares because I don't want to share them until the time is right!

Crochet away!
Melissa

How to adjust the size of your granny!

What a funny title for a post!

Anyways, my friend Adaiha over at 'things to make and do', has added a post to her lovely blog about how to make granny squares bigger when they don't quite make the grade (or the person who organized a CAL picked the wrong size squares...sorry about that!

It is a great blog post full of pictures, so stop by and check it out here!

Thanks Adaiha for all your hard work!
Melissa

Square sizes!

Hi Everyone,

Hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to make squares!

When I was picking the squares for us to make I thought I picked squares that were 12 inch but as I've been working my way through the patterns I've realized that some of the squares on the list work up smaller then I expected.

Adaiha, at 'things to make and do' will be doing a blog post about how to make 6 or 8 inch squares into 12 inch ones but if you're working your way through the square early (as I am) just continue with the pattern until your square reaches 12 inch.

Hope this helps....
Melissa

The Granny Square Queen!

As you may already know, I got the idea for my Square a Day in May from my new and lovely friend Adaiha, over at 'things to make and do'. She is working on a granny square a day for the entire year and while the thought of that excites me, it also is much to big a project for me. As far as I'm concerned, Adaiha is the Queen of all things Granny Square.

When I started planning my CAL, I asked Adaiha if she would be willing to do a couple of guest post about how to make a smaller square bigger, how to join squares and any other square related issues she has over come and could share. She had already been thinking about doing a series of blog posts on such issues, isn't that just the way the world works!

Today she revealed the first part of her tutorial on the basic granny square. You can find it here .

Adaiha is also going to be doing a tutorial on her prefered joining method which is what I plan to use to join my squares at the end of the CAL. Don't worry, I will be featuring her blog post here on my blog at the end of May.

Be careful, I often get lost on her beautiful blog and must make granny squares for hours after....which is all I've been doing these says!