Granny A Day 152

Granny A Day 152

This Granny a Day is made up of a 

Bright Yellow centre

A Beige 2nd Row

A muted Green 3rd Row

&

A lovely Maroon Frame

I have had a very busy day, lifting Onions & Garlic from my Allotment, before the forecast rains come and storing them in suitable crates in my shed to dry them off before the move.

I have also given my two Goldfish, Cartier & Tiffany a partial water change as they will be transported in plastic bags during the move.  I will put them into a Goldfish Bowl (traditional) for a day before the move, so that I can give their little tank a good clean out.  Well that's the plan anyway!

My Dog is going to the In Laws tomorrow and won't come back to this house as we will pick him up on the way to Dorset, just so that he won't be traumatised by all the comings and goings of the removals men on the  day before and the day of the move.

Gosh with all this forward planning, it's a wonder that I have any time to crochet these days at all!

Another plan:  I am thinking of making about a weeks worth of Granny A Days ahead of time so that I am all done and dusted up to the 10th June - I know it's a little bit of cheating but needs must - what do YOU think?

Please leave your comments if you approve or indeed you don't !

Granny A Day 151 and my LAST Crochet Classes in Surrey

The First of my 2 classes today was attended by one of my oldest (as in time, not in her age!!) pupils who brought a variety of projects along with her.

One of them was called a Maggie Wrap (which if you google you will find online or via Ravelry, which included the beginnings of  the square that you see below as Granny 151.

She had to make the squares and join them as you go, but she didn't see that bit so she had to "frog" the last row of quite a few squares and then I showed her how to join as you go.

She was so thrilled that she brought this along to her last class as she could now finish her project but she was very sad that it was our last lesson together.

I then decided, after a mad dash to the wool shop for some Royal Blue wool, to try out , experiment even, with making a Union Jack Granny Square in time for the Royal Celebrations ahead of this coming 

Diamond Jubilee weekend.

 

Class 2 and my very very final class in Surrey, was with LG who came to me only 2 weeks ago, to learn how to make Granny Squares

This is what she brought along!!

I am very impressed.

In Lesson 1 she learnt to make the basic Foundation Chain and Treble Crochet + start a Granny Square.

In Lesson 2 - that very same week, she learnt to colour change and how to neatly darn in all the ends as you go, to save darning in with a needle at the end, therefore saving her from a horrible end task which so many of us hate and today she learnt how to Join As You Go

And this is what she achieved

Isn't it a fantastic job!

I am really thrilled that she's taken to Crochet so passionately and so quickly too!

She thanked me at the end and said that I am a very good and very patient teacher - how lovely of her.

I shall miss all of my pupils however, I looked forward to all my new pupils that will come along in Dorset.

Granny A Day 150 & Tunisian Crochet

Granny A Day 150 is this rather lovely colour combination of 

A Deep Pink Centre

A Bright Yellow 2nd row

A Dull but still attractive Grey 

Rounded off with a vibrant Orange!

These are all odd colours from my Yarn Scraps basket

Due to my move and therefore clear out of stuff from my Crochet Room I have the space to lay my 

Granny A Day Blanket

of 150 Granny Squares to date

on the floor to photograph it

I love it!

After yesterday's rather brilliant Filofax Cover, which is now in pride of place on my Filofax, which I use a lot, I have gone back to adding a few more rows on my Tunisian Crochet Scarf

As you can see, it's getting thinner the more rows I add.  I must be missing a few stitches here and there as I go, but it's good practice!

I will probably DC in traditional crochet, all around the edge, once its finished to give it a nicer look & I can't wait to wear it.

It's another good way to use up odd balls of wool and yarn.

Granny A Day 149 & Another Filofax Cover

Well, I did get some packing done this morning - the whole of the dining room in fact, and in this heat it wasn't an easy job!

So after a cool drink I made Granny A Day 149

This is the same square but in different light!

As I have a pretty full on day tomorrow, as it's the last day at my gardening job and I have to change all the pots from winter pansies to summer geraniums, I decided not to do any more packing today

Instead, as I had a "taste" for Granny Squares - like I need a reason, I decided to make a Granny Square cover (this is the 4th one I have made & it has a better wardrobe than I do!!) for my Filofax.

I chose some lovely summer colours and with inspiration from 

http://bekaboodesigns.wordpress.com/

Beka Boo Designs by Tracey, who makes the most wonderful crochet bed footers and cushions, plus much, much more.  

The inspiration came from the bed footers that she makes by joining several Granny Squares together to form a long rectangle and then granny shelling around them to keep the shape rectangular rather than square, so this was ideal for my Filofax cover.

 I started by joining 3 Granny's together

(The Front)

And then bordering it with Granny Shells to make the rectangular shape needed for the cover

(The Spine)

And making a DC edging to tidy up the edging

(The Back)

And making some Granny Triangles for the corners

I do hope that you like the fact that I used my spare time to create a new crocheted wonder

GAD 148 & Inspiration from A Stash Addict

This is Granny A Day 148

Again I have just "picked" the colours at random, on this extremely hot day, from the scarp yarn basket.

With a Cream Centre, Mixed Cream & Brown Row two, a vibrant pink Row 3 and a shade of Grey Border I think it looks lovely

but then again I love ALL Granny Squares

My Husband and I decided to take a day off from packing up the house today, so I had a little bit of spare time on my hands.

I decided to wander across a few crochet blogs and I came across this inspirational blog from

A fellow Twitter @AstashAddict

 http://www.astashaddictblog.com/2012/05/crochet-daisy-chain-tutorial.html

Do go and take a look as she takes some wonderful photos and it includes the full tutorial too!

I am going to make a few more and attach them to the front of my bicycle basket to cheer it up as it's of the plain black wire type and not the lovely wicker ones  you can get.
I will post a picture when it's done!

Last by not least was an email update from one of my pupils NR

After having to stop work on her initial Giant Granny Square Blanket, to make a baby blanket, she's picked up pace again and has hit Row 53

It's nearly big enough for her double bed now, as you can see by this wonderful picture!

Well done NR - it's fabulous.

Granny A Day 147

This is Granny A Day 147

The colours are just pulled from the Yarn Stash basket 

at random

and I even had to use 2 shades of Brown

I love the result of this random colour pick

Now back to packing boxes and shredding paper

Oh I must tell you about my paper shredding!  I have, no, I will correct that to HAD bank statements from the year 1999 so thought that I would get rid of them all, apart from the last years worth and shred them.

So I have sat here for hours with my shredder, which keeps on stopping because it gets hot, shredding away

& I have filled 2 bin liners full of shredded paper!

However here's the genius bit

I have used the shreddings to pack out my boxes with, instead of scrunching up paper!

Ingenious I hear you say

Indeed it is!

I knew there was a point to saving all those bank statements!

Ta - Dah

Granny A Day 146

I apologise in advance for this very boring blog post of my Granny A Day 146

With a large house to pack up and move in 13 days time, I don't have as much spare time on my hands

However I did manage to make GAD 146

However if I am totally truthful, this square was started yesterday in Class 2 and LG my new Granny Mad student actually started a colour change on this square as practice, so I can't say that I made it all myself!