366 Granny Squares for 2012

Well today is day 366 of 2012

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I have achieved the challenge that I set myself this time last year, which was to Crochet a Granny Square a day

I now have the most amazing blanket

Here are some of my favourite squares

Some which hold a special meaning and some which are simply lovely crochet squares

Some are Traditional Granny Squares and some are a variation on that theme....

Here are some "Traditional" Granny Squares

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below is a slight variation on the "Traditional"

My Blood Drop Square - I gave blood that day and my blood group is B +

A Flower square

And a Valentines Square (the heart is on it's side due to my poor photo editing - sorry)

Again poor photo editing for my Leap Year Square

A Sunny Flower, which I probably made in class & transformed into my square for that day

A couple of more unusual flower squares

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This is my Christmas Day Square

 The Dorset Flag Square commemorates the day I moved to Dorset

And this is my Wimbledon Tennis Square

I remember making this flower in a class that I was teaching that day.  I loved it so much that I had to "GAD" it

 Another class effort - Bavarian Crochet Square

And now for some squares with a difference....

And finally but unfortunately upside down.....

The Olympic Flame which passed through Blandford Forum

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The Olympic Flag

And these squares are the ones that my Crochet Days Students made in class in September

I love these squares

And here it is!

A Granny Square a Day for 2012

A Square A Day for 2013 starts tomorrow!

GAD 357 & 358 ohhhhh nearly there!!

The Ripples Blanket is taking shape

I just had to share these gorgeous colours with you all

GAD 357 is for yesterday - Saturday 22nd December

And this is GAD 358

So only 3 more squares to go to make 361 = 19 x 19

GAD 355 & 356

GAD 355 is for my lovely husband who celebrated his Birthday 

20th December 2012

And GAD 356 for today 21st December is this rather unusual take on a Granny Square

As you can see it has interlocking chains and uses FPTC too!

Granny A Day 353, 354 & WIP's & Free Tutorial!!

I am posting GAD 353 one day late - sorry folks!

I simply forgot to blog yesterday - not like me I know, but hey, I am only human and I do forget things!

Now that my Crochet Lessons have slowed down, due to the Festive Season being upon us shortly, I have had time to catch up on one particular favorite WIP

My Ripples Blanket

I love the colours and I can't wait to finish it and put it at the end of a bed, or draped on the stair banister or casually placed on a sofa in the conservatory or......

Wherever it ends up, it will brighten up any room!

This is Granny A Day 354

It's probably hard to see but my square (without the orange border) is at the bottom of the book page.

I had very similar colour yarns to the one in the book so I decided to follow it colours and all!!

And here it is attached to my GAD blanket

Now for a small FREE TUTORIAL

BPDC

Back Post Double Crochet

As you can see I have started on my border of my GAD blanket

It would have been too big a job to tackle in the last 5 days of the year with all the festivities going on, so I have made a row or Trebles in Yellow

The next row in Green is Double Crochet

and Row 3 is also Double Crochet in Blue, but it's BACK POST DOUBLE CROCHET

And here's how you do it......

Put your hook under both front and back loops (in this case the green row) of the row below from the back of your work to the front as in the photo below

Then you put your hook from front to back around the "post" of the stitch of the row below and WOH (wool over hook) - just lever the hook handle towards you so that the hook head is facing away from you to get "around the post of the stitch"

And pull it through so that you have 2 loops on the hook

Then WOH again and

pull that through both loops on the hook to finish the BPDC (back post double crochet)

As you can see in the photo above, using this method makes the Green DC's push towards you, both front and back loops are clearly visible and create a lovely effect.