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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.
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.
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!
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pattern: Leafy Greens Square by Amelia Beebe
Hook used: H
Colors Used: I love this yarn's Grey Beard and Old Leaf.
I've been wanting to make this square since I started the project but I haven't been able to use a lot of my Old Leaf yarn because I was afraid I wouldn't have enough to finish the blanket. But thanks to a very kind person, I have some more Old Leaf yarn. Thank you soo much for sending me your leftovers!!! I felt better about making this one now that I have a more comfortable amount of the color.
This square is the first one I've made where you turn your project between rounds. It's not hard, but you do have to follow the directions kind of closely at first.
