A Granny A Day

101/365 - Amethyst Square

Since most of the squares for the square a day in May  are 12" I've decided to make two different baby blankets from the squares. So there are two different color palettes I've decided to use. One for a girl and one for a boy. They are Hobby Lobby's I love this yarn (of course). I promise I use other yarn, I just have an abundance of this at my house right now and for the May squares I wanted to use yarn I already had.

 

And here's today's square: 

Pattern: Free SmoothFox's Amethyst Square 12x12 by Donna Mason-Svara

Hook used: H

Colors Used: I love this yarn's Gray Mist, Burnt Pumpkin, Turquoise, and yellow.

I am loving these colors. This color scheme came about in a really weird way. I put one skein of each color of my I love this yarn in a big plastic container because I was just going to do baby blankets out of my stash yarn. I put the extra skeins in another basket and thought, "wow those look really cute together. That needs to be a baby boy's blanket." So there you go I don't have any kind of formula for how I pick my colors, it just happens. 

I really like this pattern. All of Donna's patterns are beautiful. I can't wait to make more of them! I also like the 12" square I was a little worried they would take too much time, but it wasn't that bad. 

100 days of grannies giveaway!

I made it through 100 days of my 365 project! This is soo exciting for me and I want to share my excitement with you all with a little giveaway. 

One lucky reader will win my very favorite crochet hook (Susan Bates bamboo handled hook size H) and 3 skeins of I love this yarn in my favorite colors: Sungold, Hot Rose, and Peacock. These also happened to be my wedding colors :)

 

You'll get a brand new hook, I just haven't been to the store yet. 

All you have to do to win is leave a comment below telling me what your favorite granny square I've made so far is (you can just say the number if you want). I'm curious what your favorites are. You can easily see them all on my flickr set.

One entry per person. 
Make sure you put your e-mail in the form so I can contact you if you win.
I'll close the comments Tuesday, May 3rd at 9pm central and will announce the winner on Wednesday, May 4th (after 5pm).  Tell your friends! 

*Disclosure - Giveaway is hosted by me, I'm not affiliated with any companies. 

100/365 - Pretty Patchwork

Pattern: Pretty Patchwork by Margret Willson

Hook used: H

Colors Used: I love this yarn's Grey Beard, Ivory, and Peacock.

I really like this pattern but it moves a little slow because you technically have to do each row twice. But I love the effet it gives and it's worth the time it takes to make it. 

100 days of grannies giveaway celebration post is coming up next. 

99/365 - Santa Rosa Square

Pattern: Santa Rosa Throw by Kim Biddix

Hook used: H

Colors Used: I love this yarn's Grey Beard, Sungold, Peacock, and Hot Rose.

Yay popcorn stitches! I added some rounds to make it 8 inches. Tomorrow is the big 100 giveaway so make sure to come back then!

98/365 - Circle of Friends Square

Pattern: Circle of Friends Square by Priscilla Hewitt

Hook used: H

Colors Used: I love this yarn's Grey Beard, Ivory, Peacock, Old Leaf, Hot Rose, and Sungold.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this pattern and I highly suggest changing colors on every row with this one. I get kind of giddy when I can use all of my colors on one square.  It was a lot of fun to stitch too. 

I tweeted this yesterday, but as you can tell I'm almost at 100 squares! This is a big 365 project milestone so get ready for a little giveaway on Saturday to celebrate. I've decided what I'm giving away now and I hope you'll be excited about it :) 

97/365 - Mypicot quilt motif 4021

Pattern: My Picot Quilt Motif 4021 by MYpicot

Hook used: H

Colors Used: I love this yarn's Grey Beard, Peacock, and Sungold.

This pattern is so lacy that I was a little worried it wouldn't work. I just had to do some chains and scs around it to make it more of a tight square. I think it will be fine once it's attached in a blanket. And of course it uses the cluster stitch I'm so very fond of. We're having very grey days here in OKC, lots of clouds and rain so my photos this week may be a little grey too.

 

96/365 - April Dawn

Pattern: April Dawn by  Bonnie Pierce

Hook used: H

Colors Used: I love this yarn's Grey Beard, Ivory, Hot Rose and Sungold.

I really love this one! The bullion stitch and I are becoming great friends. They take some practice, but it's totally worth it! I added some more rounds of scs and dcs to make this one 8 inches. I also really love these colors together. I have been working on a photoshopped mosaic of all of the grannies for this colorway and it is looking awesome! I can't wait for it to be finished so we can display it on our bed.

95/365 - Calypso Square

Pattern: Calypso Afghan by Lion Brand Yarn

Hook used: H

Colors Used: I love this yarn's Grey Beard, Old Leaf, Peacock, and Hot Rose.

I added the round of dc, chain spaces and the last two rounds of dcs in grey to make the square 8 inches. This is a very easy pattern and I kind of think it looks like a few of the other squares I have made. Thats why I added the spaces in the Old Leaf round. It adds a little more interest.

94/365 - Tulip Square

Pattern: Tulip Dishcloth by Doni Speigle

Hook used: G (however I should have used a 4.5mm to get to 8" comfortably)

Colors Used: I love this yarn's Grey Beard, Ivory, Hot Rose, and Old Leaf.

Happy Easter! I thought this tulip square was appropriate for today. It's a pretty easy one. Nothing like that awful linked rings one from yesterday. 

There is a lot of rain coming down here today. Finally the old saying "April showers bring May flowers" is holding up this year.

 

93/365 - Linked Rings

Pattern: 27-28-37 Linked-ring tawashi by Pierrot (Gosyo Co., Ltd)

Hook used: H

Colors Used: I love this yarn's Grey Beard, Hot Rose, and Sungold.

This is the hardest square I've made so far though in theory it should have been easy. I finished two of the rings and started to do the third and realized that they weren't linked together right. That's the hard part-- getting the rings to overlap the way that they are supposed to. It took me 5 times to get it right. I say that's great considering the hangover I was nursing this morning while I was working on this one. I probably shouldn't have attempted this one today but I guess I was feeling a little overzealous.