A Granny A Day

257/365 - Square #81

Pattern: Square 81  from  Leisure Arts 99 Granny Squares to Crochet

Hook used: J

Finished size: 8"

Colors Used:

Michael's Loops and Threads Impeccable Worsted Aqua and Soft Fern.

Hobby Lobby's I love this yarn  Metallic Pinky Toes and Buttercup.

Another one I accidentally made two of. This really demonstrates how different a square can look depending on where you change colors. The first one distinctly shows a flower and the second does not. I like each on in their own way. 

 

 

256/365 - Square #80

Pattern: Square 80  from  Leisure Arts 99 Granny Squares to Crochet

Hook used: J

Finished size: 8"

Colors Used:
Vanna's Choice Baby in Goldfish.

Michael's Loops and Threads Impeccable Worsted Aqua  and Soft Fern.

Hobby Lobby's I love this yarn  Metallic Pinky Toes.

I really love this square! I kind of wish I would have used the buttercup yellow color for the center of the flower, but I still really like it. This one really needed a good blocking when I was finished. 

I found the afghan I was joining together this weekend. I only have one more row to add and the border until it is finished. Maybe I'll be able to work on it soon. I've had so many other projects lately though. It might have to wait another month.

255/365 - Square #78

Pattern: Square 78  from  Leisure Arts 99 Granny Squares to Crochet

Hook used: J

Finished size: 6"

Colors Used:
Vanna's Choice Baby in Goldfish.

Michael's Loops and Threads Impeccable Worsted Aqua.

Hobby Lobby's I love this yarn  buttercup.

I'm not sure what happened but I ended up with two of this square, oh well. It has a lot of texture and is a very sturdy square. I wouldn't make a blanket out of just this square because of that fact, but it will work fine mixed in with other squares. It could make a really cool rug for the floor though! It's nice and thick and would feel good on your feet with all of the texture.

Yes, I'm back!!! That break was much too long. With crochet school and getting ready for Deluxe, this project had to take a back burner for a few months, but I'm back at it and ready to finish it up :)

Update

Well I finished Crochet School and it took over my life for not one, but two months!  I know I'm still getting visitors over here and I just wanted to let all of you know that I WILL be finishing up my 365 project after the holidays. While I totally failed at doing it in 365 days (I'm surprised I made it to 254 if I'm being completely honest), I think this is still a great resource for other granny lovers out there and I want to complete it not only for myself, but for all of you that have admired and supported the project from the beginning. It has been a really fun project, but very time consuming and for someone like me with many irons in the fire, it's hard to keep up with time consuming projects. 

So I'll see you all back here on January 1st and see if we can't get this thing done. How does that sound?

254/365 - Square #77

Pattern: Square 77  from  Leisure Arts 99 Granny Squares to Crochet

Hook used: J

Finished size: 7.5"

Colors Used:
Vanna's Choice Baby in Goldfish.

Michael's Loops and Threads Impeccable Worsted in Bronze, soft fern and Aqua.

Hobby Lobby's I love this yarn in metallic pinky toes and buttercup.

So this one is kind of like some I've done in the past, but not 100% the same pattern and I had to share it because of the rainbow colors :) The one thing I didn't like about this square was that all the corners have 1 chain space, when I normall use 2. Yes, I could have changed it, but I've been trying to make all of these patterns as written so they look like they are supposed to for reference purposes.

Have you seen that I'm hosting crochet school on my craftyminx blog? This is a HUGE deal for me, something I've been dreaming up for over a year and I'm so excited that it is finally happening. If things over here are quiet for the month, you'll know why. I'm trying to keep up blogging the granny squares, but I have a feeling just getting one crocheted a day is going to be enough of a challenge!

253/365 - Square #76

Pattern: Square 76  from  Leisure Arts 99 Granny Squares to Crochet

Hook used: J

Finished size: 8"

Colors Used:
Michael's Loops and Threads Impeccable Worsted in Soft Fern.

Another boring monochromatic square. What was I thinking? This one is even the same color as the other one. Ok I'll tell you what I was thinking, "oh I've run out of 3 colors of yarn and I don't get paid for another two days... ok I'll just make this one all in green."

-Will work for yarn-

252/365 - Square #74

Pattern: Square 74  from  Leisure Arts 99 Granny Squares to Crochet

Hook used: J

Finished size: 8"

Colors Used:
Vanna's Choice Baby in Goldfish.

Michael's Loops and Threads Impeccable Worsted in Soft Fern.

This reminds me of Heather Bailey Fabric. Especially with my color choices.

251/365 - Square #73

Pattern: Square 73  from  Leisure Arts 99 Granny Squares to Crochet

Hook used: J

Finished size: 7.5"

Colors Used:
Michael's Loops and Threads Impeccable Worsted in Aqua.

Hobby Lobby's I love this yarn in metallic pinky toes and buttercup.

Another not super unique, but cute square and puff stitches are always a plus in my book :).

250/365 - Square #72

Pattern: Square 72  from  Leisure Arts 99 Granny Squares to Crochet

Hook used: J

Finished size: 8.5"

Colors Used:
Michael's Loops and Threads Impeccable Worsted in Aqua and Soft Fern.

Hobby Lobby's I love this yarn in metallic pinky toes and buttercup.

Not a super unique square, but cute nonetheless. I like that the center is made with treble stitches to make a bigger center.

249/365 - Square #71

Pattern: Square 71  from  Leisure Arts 99 Granny Squares to Crochet

Hook used: J

Finished size: 7.5"

Colors Used:
Vanna's Choice Baby in Goldfish.

Michael's Loops and Threads Impeccable Worsted in Soft Fern and Aqua.

I've said before how much this book has surprised me -- well this is another piece of evidence. This is such a cute pattern and very eye-catching.