A Granny A Day

11/365 - Willow

Pattern: #189 Chocolate Box from 200 Crochet Blocks for blankets, throws, and afghans by Jan Eaton

Hook used: H

Finished Size: 8"

Colors Used: I love this yarn's Grey Beard, Sungold, hot rose and peacock.

I love this square! However, this was one of those patterns that I was not in the right mindset to start and got frustrated when I started the pink section. So I made chocolate box and came back to this one the next day. Then I felt like an idiot for not reading the directions right the day before ha. Oh well, it's beautiful and I will definitely be making this one again one day.

 I've found that working a week ahead like I am is working out great for me. I'm still doing a granny a day only I don't sharethem until a week after it's finished. That way I can photograph and edit all of them on the weekend and get my posts ready. I highly reccommend this for anyone completing a 365 project that you will be sharing publicly. I don't feel pressured to get everything done in one evening. I make my square, call it a night and worry about everything else on Saturday or Sunday.

So there's blizzard talk for tomorrow in these parts. That means I need to go to Hobby Lobby tonight to stock up for an all day crochet-a-thon. :) I have a few Valentine's Day projects to make that I can't wait to share! Also get ready because tomorrow is February 1st and I have a lot of heart granny patterns to share.

*photo updated 8/25/2011

10/365 - Chocolate Box

Pattern: #145 Chocolate Box from 200 Crochet Blocks for blankets, throws, and afghans by Jan Eaton

Hook used: H

Finished Size: 8"

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

In theory, I really like this square. It looks really cool. However, the sc grey rounds make for way too many ends to weave in for my taste.

*photo updated 8/25/2011

9/365 - Circle in a Square

Pattern: #13 Circle in a Square from 200 Crochet Blocks for blankets, throws, and afghans by Jan Eaton

Hook used: H

Finished Size: 8"

Colors Used: I love this yarn's Grey Beard, Peacock, Sungold, ivory,  and hot rose

New Favorite! You'll hear this a lot this week. :)

*photo updated 8/25/2011

8/365 - Catherine Wheel

Pattern: #73 Catherine Wheel from 200 Crochet Blocks for blankets, throws, and afghans by Jan Eaton

Hook used: H

Finished Size: 8"

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

There hasn't been a pattern in this book that I haven't liked. I highly recommend buying this book if you love granny squares! This square is one of my favorites and it has to be blocked (you don't want to see what it looked like before I blocked it!).  Did you notice? I didn't have to use my flash! I hope I can finally start taking pictures when there is some sunlight.

*photo updated 8/25/2011

7/365 - Queen Anne's Lace

Pattern: #47 Queen Anne's Lace from 200 Crochet Blocks for blankets, throws, and afghans by Jan Eaton

Hook used: H

Finished Size: 8"

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

*photo updated 8/25/2011

6/365 - Square Target

Pattern: #3 Square Target from 200 Crochet Blocks for blankets, throws, and afghans by Jan Eaton

Hook used: H

Finished Size: 8"

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

*photo updated 8/25/2011

5/365 - Popcorn Flower

Pattern: #8 Popcorn Flower from 200 Crochet Blocks for blankets, throws, and afghans by Jan Eaton

Hook used: H

Finished Size: 8"

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

As an aside, I made #20 Colorful Bobbles because I liked that it looked like button candy.

I think this square would be really cute for a baby blanket separated with borders of a bright colors.

After completing this square I realized I don't like doing squares made out of rows. I hate the way they take soo much time and they curl, so my granny squares will all be granny squares, which means I can only use 65 patterns from the book I'm using right now. I've been spending a lot of time on ravelry queuing up some squares too. I think I can actually get 365 different squares. If you have any favorites, please send me a link to the pattern. I'm open to vintage too if you happen to have any old magazines lying around that you want to scan.

Last night  I decided to make a blocking board to easily block each square after I finish weaving in ends.

Its a thin piece of scrap wood I had lying around covered with a piece of stick-on cork board. It doesn't have the greatest hold but I'm only going over the piece with iron steam for about 30 seconds so the pins only have to hold for about 2 minutes. I think I may add a few more layers of the cork and see what happens.  This makes the whole process from starting the block to taking the picture about 2 hours at most, depending on how intricate the block is. Most only take an hour or so. Even though it is taking time, I'm really enjoying this project!

*Photo Updated 8/25/2011

4/365 - Arcadia

Pattern: #9 Arcadia from 200 Crochet Blocks for blankets, throws, and afghans by Jan Eaton

Hook used: H

Finished Size: 8"

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

I actually had time to update the design of the blog this weeked. I have a blog banner and buttons and everything. Yes, I had to work a little ahead in order to get the banner finished. So you have a little peek at what's to come this week :)

*updated photo 8/25/2011

3/365 - Waterlily

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Pattern: #16 Waterlily from 200 Crochet Blocks for blankets, throws, and afghans by Jan Eaton

Hook used: H

Finished Size: 8"

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

I love flower blocks.

*photo updated 8/25/2011

2/365 - Gothic Square

Pattern: #94 Gothic Square from 200 Crochet Blocks for blankets, throws, and afghans by Jan Eaton

Hook used: H

Finished Size: 8"

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

I guess I need to start blocking my blocks. This one's a little wonky on its own.

*updated photo 8/25/2011