Granny Square a Week-Week Five

I decided to make a departure from the traditional Granny Square and make a block out of Tunisian or afghan crochet. If you are not familiar, Tunisian crochet is worked up much like you would if you were knitting something; you cast on a row of stitches and then work all those stitches off the hook 2 (or more) at a time.  Traditionally, you would also use a much longer crochet hook that is uniform in diameter, since you keep the stitches on the hook (for this project I used a regular hook since it was a much smaller number of stitches). It gives a much more dense appearance and  is often used for afghans, pot holders and sometimes sweaters.

Plus, to me, it works up very fast, especially if you get a rhythm going. I remember one year for Christmas, I made 5 pot holders for my daughter's teachers in about 3 hours with Tunisian crochet.

I found this variation on the Tunisian Crochet and thought it would make a very fantastic addition to my little project here.

Andrew's Keepsake Tunisian Crochet by Teresa at Crochet Geek

It is a very pretty motif. If you have never done Tunisian Crochet before, Teresa at Crochet Geek (formerly Art of Crochet by Teresa) has a TON of videos on YouTube as well as written tutorials on her blog.

My adjustments:
I did 20 beginning chain stitches instead of 25
I only made 3 shells
I skipped 3 stitches between the single crochet and the start of the shell in order for it to come out even
I added a border. And the type of stitch rested solely on making the final size uniform with the rest of my squares. On my main colors, I ended up having to make a double crochet border and on the alternate I only had to do a single. It is up to you what you make.

Also a note-Tunisian Crochet will roll, just like knitting, as you are working your square. So try to stretch and smooth it out as much as possible.

And here they are

See it rolling?

My alternate colors I used a cotton yarn which worked up larger than the tradition acrylic yarn
This is Lily and Cream Fleur de Lavande and I did not realize until I got it home that it was scented LOL

Until Next Week!