April 13, 2015 -

Fifty-nine 5” granny squares, plus assorted parts, yarn enough to make a few more squares or a border and plenty of white for joining - all a generous gift from yarn fairy Karen of MA.

If I lay out 54 of the squares in a 6 x 9 grid I’ll have a 33″ x 49.5″ blanket. Just add a couple of border rounds and it will be about the same size as my kids’ ripples!

So close to being done, I want to weave in the yarn tails right away.

Oh. My. Did you read that?… “I want to weave in yarn tails?!” Am I running a fever or sumthin’?
Guess it doesn’t feel like such a big deal when someone else did all the work of crocheting the squares. Thanks Karen!

May 6, 2015 - Coming Along

Thought I’d be using 54 of 59 Karen’s squares in a 6 x 9 lay-out. But, after trying to arrange them into some kind of a pattern, I went with 52 of her originals and crocheted 2 more from the variegated scraps which she included in the “kit”.

Attached the squares with the same Zig-Zag/Chain Stitch Join that I used on the Thrifty Granny of 2012. - 3-stitch chains anchored by a slip-stitch worked into either a corner or the space between two 3-dc granny clusters.

Time to think about a border.

May 11, 2015 - An Ideal Finish

It turns out that RHSS ‘Soft White’ is a very close match to the white in Karen’s granny squares. Luckily, I had most of a skein in stash, more than enough to start on a simple border with 1 round each of dc and hdc. By the time I’d finished those two rounds I knew that I wanted to do just one more hdc round, in RED.

Funny that Karen also happened to provide just the right shade, Sayelle ‘Devil Red’.

The Ideal Finish for a Very Variegated Granny!!