A Granny A Day

213/365 - Square #31

Pattern: Square 31  from  Leisure Arts 99 Granny Squares to Crochet

Hook used: J

Finished size: 5.5"

Colors Used:
Vanna's Choice Baby in Goldfish.

What's up with this new color, you ask? I found out the bronze color I've been using was discontinued and I guess I just happened to pick up the very last skein at Michael's right before they cut it. I knew I was chancing it when I only bought one skein of yarn for a project. So I've decided to add this coral color to the mix so I don't have to use as much of the orange and it seems to be working out with the other colors just fine.

New Color Palette!

So you all know I did potholder week because I couldn't figure out what to do next. Well some of the colors I used for the potholders inspired me and Adaiha inspired me to buy this book so here we go. Today starts my going through Leisure Arts 99 Granny Squares to Crochet.

I won't be making all the squares from this book. There are a few that are duplicates of squares I've already made so I'll just be working around ones I remember making before. 

Those are my colors above! They're a little more toned down than I would normally go for but I'm totally in love with them. Because of this, I am using the pink sparkle yarn to add a little pizazz. 

They are:

Michael's Loops and Threads Impeccable Worsted in Aqua, Bronze, and Soft Fern.
Hobby Lobby's I love this yarn in Antique White, Metallic Pinky Toes, and Buttercup. 

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. 

36/365 - Granny with a Twist

Pattern: #40 Granny with a Twist 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, Peacock, and Ivory

I added some navigation to the right side with archives and categories so you can filter the grannies by type and there's even an online pattern option if you only want to see grannies that I made with free online patterns.

Ready for my new color scheme for the March grannies? Here it is...

Top: Hot Rose, Antique White, Sungold, and Auberguine.

Middle: Cranberry, Old Rose, Soft Pink, and Sea Blue.

Bottom: Burnt Pumpkin, Dark Raspberry, Antique Teal, and Brown.

With all the flowers that this blanket makes, there are a lot of flower colors. (In case you missed my previous post, I'm  making this afghan (Grans Garden) from this e-book for a gift.)  I'm using Hobby Lobby's "I Love This Yarn" again for these squares. I thought about using cascade 220 or some knitpicks swish superwash, but when it came down to it I liked these colors better and acrylic makes for a good archival blanket. Bugs can't eat it, it doesn't break down easily, and you can machine wash it if you have to.

I also needed some colors for the base grannies that the flowers will sit on.

Linen, Antique Taupe, and Dark Raspberry.

What do you think? I'm pretty in love with these and I know the recipient will love them too.

I can't wait to get started on this one :)

*photo updated 8/25/2011

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to the 365 project of Dana Beach from craftyminx.com! I wanted to create a separate blog for this project since it will be pretty big undertaking and I didn't want it to take over the craftyminx blog. If you wish to get to this page only you can use this link: http://craftyminx.typepad.com/a_granny_a_day/

My project is as the title of the blog suggests: A Granny A Day. I'll be making a crocheted granny square a day and sharing my progress here daily. I'll post a weekly round up of squares on my craftyminx blog.

Why granny squares? I love crochet and one of my big goals for this year is to complete a full sized afghan. I figure this project will help me make that happen and even give me a few more blankets for other loved ones in my life. I really wanted to do a different project but didn't see it working into my life to well, maybe it will fit in some other time.

Here's my first color palette:

All Colors are Hobby Lobby's I love this yarn:

1. Hot Rose 2. Sungold 3. Ivory

5. Grey Beard 4. Peacock  5. Old Leaf (discontinued)

I'll change color palettes as I finish enough squares for a blanket.

Each day I will share my square and the source for the pattern so you can follow along if you want to :)

Oh and for now, excuse the fact that I copied over the design from my other blog. I'll hopefully have time to give this blog it's own face lift but for now, this will have to do.