Granny Square a Week-Week Fifty

So here we are: Week 50! And this week is a Christmasy theme.

Christmas Wreath Square by Carol Wijma

This is a fairly easy square, even though it looks complicated. My only adjustments:

Round 6, when they call for 2 dc, 2 hdc, 4 sc, etc. you put one in each stitch. Meaning if you have 8 stitches from the row below, you would do 1 dc, 1 dc, 1 hdc, 1 hdc, 1 sc, 1 sc, 1 sc, 1 sc. The only place you put 2 stitches in one stitch from the row below are the corners when you do tr, chain 3, tr.

Also, I omitted the red stitching on the inside of the wreath, I couldn't get it to sit correctly. It looked just fine without it.

As for the bow, I did not like the way they did it in the pattern. On my main color square, which I made second, you will see it is slightly different. All I did was chain 50, place a dc in the 3rd chain from the hook and all the way across, then fashioned it in the same way they did on the pattern. I left a long tail so I could stitch it up to about the center so I could attach it to the square.

And that is it! I am working on attaching all the squares now, so hopefully next week's blog will be the big reveal!

Until Next Week!

Granny Square a Week-Week Forty Nine

This week's square is... my own pattern!

I started out trying to make another square but it just was not working. With no way to get any help from the author, I decided to rewrite a similar one from scratch. I call it...

The Crooked Granny
You begin by making the base to a granny square:

Magic circle or chain 3 and slip stitch to the first chain to make a loop

Round 1-chain 2, dc 2, chain 2, *dc 3, chain 2*. Repeat * to * twice. Slip stitch to top of beginning chain

Round 2-Slip stitch to the first chain space. Here you may change color or stay with the original color. chain 3, dc 2 chain 2, dc 3, *chain 1, dc 3 chain 2, dc 3 in next chain space* repeat twice and slip stitch to the top of the chain 3. Fasten off yarn.

Round 3 -Slip stitch new color to any corner space. Chain 8 and slip stitch to next corner. Continue 3 more times and slip stitch to original corner space.

Round 4- Sc 5, chain 2, sc 5 in chain space. Repeat 3 more times, slip stitch to next corner. You will see you now have a granny middle on it's side in the middle of a square.

Round 5- Chain 3, hdc in every stitch until you get to the chain 2 space in the corner, in the chain 2 space you place 2 hdc, chain 2, 2 hdc. Continue this around-hdc in every stitch, 2hdc, chain 2, 2hdc in every chain 2 space in the corner-until you reach the chain 3. Slip stitch to top and fasten off yarn

I can not express how frustrated I was with the original pattern. I also can not stress the need for people to have testers try out their patterns before they post them online-either for free or for sale (that is the worst, when you pay for a pattern only to find out it does not work, at all). Because you may be able to get it to work, but the chance is high you may forget to note something, take a stitch out, write SC when you mean chain, etc. For example-when going over my own pattern above for the 4th time, I realized I had extra chains in 2 places.

Here are the finished products!

This was done with Vanna's Choice in Silver Blue and Red Heart Super Saver in Cornflower

Until Next Week!

Granny Square a Week-Week Forty Eight

This week was chosen by my fiance:

Webbed Flower Granny Square by Shelley Husband

This was a well written and very easy square. I enjoyed making this one! You can do it in all one color (as I did with the alternates) or more than one, just changing at the beginning of rows.

No adjustments at all!

Bernat Super Saver in Wedgewood

Until Next Week!