A Granny A Day

85/365 - Wash and Wipe #3

Pattern:Wash Cloth #3 from Leisure Arts Wash and Wipe by Cynthia Lane, Leaflet 2546, 1994

Hook used: H

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

The name of this one is really unfortunate until you see that it's actually a wash cloth pattern. A really pretty wash cloth pattern. I seriously just realized I mis counted on this one and there's an extra petal which made the whole thing wonky... oops. This goes to prove that everyone makes mistakes. I guess I'll be re-doing this one this weekend.

84/365 - Meadow Flower

Pattern: Meadow Flowers from Leisure Arts Afghan Book 2, Leaflet 102, 1977

Hook used: H

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

I love the fun puffy flower on this one. This afghan is by far one of my favorites from this book and pretty much the only one made of granny squares.  I would love to make the full afghan one day.

83/365 - Hybrid

Pattern: Loosely based on the Third Prize Baby Blanket from Quick and Easy Crochet - May/June 1989

Hook used: H

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

I really liked the flower used on baby blanket pattern but it was a small square so I kind of improvised this one with rows of dcs and V stitches added to the flower granny. I really love the green behind the pink flower.

82/365 - Purple Motif Shawl Square

Pattern: Purple Motif Shawl from Quick and Easy Crochet - May/June 1989

Hook used: G (I think I ended up using a G to get the 8" square, but it could have been an H for this one)

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

I am really loving taking these motifs from other projects and turning them into squares for my project. This one is from a shawl pattern which is stitched in purple in the magazine. I couldn't really tell how awesome the pattern was until I made it because you know how awful the photos are in these older pamplet style craft magazines (if they even have a photo).

I also noticed that this magazine in particular didn't attribute patterns to anyone. I wish I knew who wrote the pattern, but I guess that's how they did things back in 89. I added a new category to the sidebar "Patterns from my magazine stash" because I really hate calling stuff from the 80s and 90s vintage when it's not. I'm from the 80s and I'm definitely not vintage.

Also, I have fun news. The Granny a Day blog is being featured on Noah Scalin's 365 blog today. This is the blog from the book that inspired my project so I'm very happy to be a part of his blog today!! So to welcome any new readers that stop by today! Thanks for visiting :)

81/365 - Diamond on the Square

Pattern: Diamond on the Square Motif from Quick and Easy Crochet - Jan/Feb 1997

Hook used: G

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

This one is a little lacy so I used a G hook to tighten it up a bit. I like it a lot!

80/365 - Blueberry Frappe

Vintage Pattern: Blueberry Frappe from Hooked on Crochet - Number 25 - Jan/Feb 1991 (OK 1991 isn't really vintage)

Hook used: H

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

So I decided to go through some of the magazines I've aquired over the years. Of course this one stood out to me because of the fpdcs. I have some other great ones lined up to make this week!