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Teeny Heart Applique

May 10, 2020 by Sue, posted in Diagrams, Odds & Ends

A teeny little heart to make your something a little extra special. This heart, or one of my granny square hearts could be a nice touch on many things. I like to add one to a corner of any blankets I make.

Confetti Tote Bag

July 17, 2017May 7, 2020 by Sue, posted in Odds & Ends, Patterns

A bag to tote my yarn for wip’s with plenty of color. A wide base, so skeins fit in comfortably – can’t have my yarn being uncomfortable! I used leftover yarn for lots of colorful stripes. The finished bag measures approximately 22″ w x 11″ h.

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A Better Granny Rectangle Revisited

February 9, 2017May 7, 2020 by Sue, posted in Patterns, Techniques, Tutorials

Over the years I have made some tweaks and changes when I use A Better Granny Rectangle. I thought it was time to share those changes in a new post. There are 2 versions included here.

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Mitered Granny Square v2.1

January 21, 2017May 7, 2020 by Sue, posted in Granny Squares, Patterns

My current work in progress. I have been thinking about a new mitered blanket for some time. I was inspired by some vintage ones I had seen where each motif abutted the others without a border around. I liked the look of that. I tried making them in single or double crochet rows same as the ones I had seen, but didn’t hit on anything that really satisfied me. Every now and then I would see another on the web somewhere and I would want to make one again.

I ended up with a variation of my mitered granny square. I did some tweaking of the pattern so it worked more neatly, which is needed since I won’t have the border around each square to hide any untidiness. I like the results!

mitered-granny-square-v2-1-2

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Pinteresting

August 5, 2014August 31, 2014 by Sue, posted in Crochet Goodness, Pinterest-ing

I don’t know about you, but I find Pinterest a bit addicting. So I thought I might spread that around a bit, and sometimes post about things I find there. Today I started my morning off with a laugh…

Nothing like a bit of a cat butt coaster to go with your coffee! I doubt I would have seen these if it weren’t for Pinterest!

Cutest Little Chickens

March 31, 2014August 15, 2014 by Sue, posted in Crochet Goodness

I had planned on working out how to make some little triangle shaped chickens, perhaps something like these cutie pies, but I never did.

PetalsToPicots.com Beanbag Chicken Crochet Pattern

Now I don’t have to, because Petals to Picots has a tutorial on how to make these incredibly adorable bean bag chickens. I may need half a dozen of them : )

Gray Area Log Cabin Blanket

January 23, 2014July 27, 2014 by Sue, posted in Granny Squares, Patterns

Almost done, just need to weave in the ends for the gray border and multi-colored edging. It was too cold outside for me to want to take any photos out there (in the teens for the high and windy!), so I had to take them next to the sunny kitchen window. Not room enough for a full view.

I made 20 of the log cabin granny squares, and then did 2 rounds in gray around each square, joining them join as you go in the last round. After joining the squares, I went around the whole blanket with 4 rounds of gray. Then I did 1 round in gray of single crochet, crocheting into the chains on each corner space, with 3 sc in the center chain (not in the chain 3 space, in the individual chain stitches).

Then I did 1 sc round changing colors as I went so I had some of each color. I didn’t end off when I changed colors, which was a bit of a pain to have all those attached, but I could pick them back up when I did my final round of reverse single crochet (also called crab stitch). I like the kind of edge that stitch makes, it looks nice and finished. Here is a closer look at the edging (front and back)…

Log Cabin Granny Square

January 7, 2014March 4, 2017 by Sue, posted in Granny Squares, Patterns, Tutorials

Here is a quick tutorial on how I am going about my Log Cabin squares, it is just a variation of a typical granny square (please let me know if you see any mistakes in the directions)…

Update (and update corrected): post with pics of the finished Gray Area Log Cabin Blanket which shows what I did with the border, for an estimate of the yarn used, go to the Log Cabin Blanket post.

Start with a sliding ring, and make a 1 round granny square. To do that, in the sliding ring you ch3 (counts as 1st dc) 2dc in the ring, [ch3, 3dc in the ring]3 times.

End with a ch3, tighten the loop, slpst into the top of the first ch3. End off.

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Log Cabin Blanket

January 4, 2014December 8, 2018 by Sue, posted in Granny Squares, Patterns

I like making blankets in the winter, once they get large enough they help keep you warm while you work on them! I had been thinking of doing a log cabin motif for quite a while, and I had bought more yarn than I needed for the baby blanket I made for my granddaughter. Perfect excuse to make a colorful blanket for myself, so what if it doesn’t match my living room, can’t let all that yarn go to waste!

Update: wanted to note how much yarn. Had less than one ball of each color. 2 balls of red (just barely over 1 ball) and 4 balls of the gray.

I have also been itching to make a blanket with gray, I really like how colors look with gray and I think it makes the colors look more grown up. I also added some cranberry, I really like red!

Here is my log cabin motif…(I forgot to include the darker blue in the yarn picture, at least it is in this one). I haven’t made a diagram for this one yet.

I was thinking of doing variations of the log cabin, so it was a bit of a sampler blanket, but I didn’t end up liking the ones I tried. There wasn’t anything wrong with them, I just felt like it didn’t really add anything, the regular log cabin was good by itself. They are rather busy, so I think sticking to the one kind of motif is the right choice.

I am liking that they are square, but not square looking with just the stripes of color. I decided to put a little of the gray in each so it isn’t just in the background. I like the gray a lot, reminds me of soft, warm sweatshirts. Warm is something we have a lack of right now (went below zero Fahrenheit last night! brrrrr)