A while back, I received a request from a reader to help her figure out why her granny squares leaned to the right. The Youtube video she used to teach her how to make a granny square had an interesting way of ending and beginning rounds, which I thought might be the cause of the problem (it wasn’t). And while …
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Pinterest continues to be a wonderful source of ideas for crochet projects. In this instance, it’s the Granny Square Striped Bag, a free crochet pattern featured on the Japanese website, Gosyo. I figured I’d make it at some point, but wasn’t sure when. Then I visited my local yarn store, Aloha Yarn a month or so later and discovered that …
Several months ago, I came up with the idea to teach a “granny square” class at YarnStory, the local yarn store in Honolulu where I teach crochet. The class has a two-fold purpose: to teach students how to crochet granny squares and to illustrate the many ways granny squares can be incorporated into crochet projects. So I pitched the idea …
No, there isn’t a “Round 1” post; you’ve arrived at the right place as I take you on an odyssey of adventure and discovery in my attempt to design and crochet a granny square cardigan for myself. I had this big idea a couple of months ago to design a shrug that incorporated a big granny square in the back. …
I subscribe to a crochet newsletter called Hooked on Crochet, published by AllFreeCrochet.com. The site has compiled loads and loads of free crochet patterns from around the web, and the newsletter provides a sampling via a daily email. The only downside is that they send you ads for other products, but I just ignore these unless it’s something that interests …
Is it possible to crochet a granny square baby blanket for a one year-old in half a day so you’ll have a gift to give him at his birthday party on the same day? I found out the answer to this question when I tried to do it. No, it isn’t possible. In fact, it took me approximately two weeks …
Yes, I actually decided to make a sweater out of a granny square, something I never thought I’d do. All those ’70s granny square clothes drove me crazy. Inspired by a Lily Chin Pattern So what made me actually consider such a thing? No, the devil didn’t make me do it, A Lily Chin pattern that I found fiddling around …