The Granny Square blanket, tried and true

Hello Dears,

I must show off  my rectangular Granny Square blanket. I found the best pattern ever that gives the starting chain for different size blankets. This is absolutely the best pattern for starting out and one of my most favorite places to visit. I am constantly getting great ideas from this site among others and I will try to share them when I try an item.

Anyway, as you know if you read my last little tale, I have lots of yarn balls lying around leftovers from other projects. I love Granny Squares because you can work them up in pieces, and when you have enough to piece together presto, a beautiful blanket. If I am making one for a baby I like to use a liner with it like a nice soft material because I do not want little fingers and toes getting caught in the little gaps of a granny.

I work in a lot of different types of yarns, but sometimes you know the cheap acrylic yarn like Red Heart Super Saver is great for some types of projects like a crochet Tea Set, or a Christmas Decoration, or Halloween banner, St Patrick’s cup cozy and so on. I love using my blanket over my comforter as it adds a tad bit of weight and warmth and spread out it looks so homey. Near the Holiday season I get busy working up all the yarns leftover for a kid to get a special mommy made blanket that they can take with them when they move out and use as a nice lap throw. I’ve made it a tradition to get one a year done starting two years ago. I think I should make more though, it’s a nice pattern if you know how to do a simple granny square.

I think the worse thing was the losing of the particular hook I was using. Odd thing that, before I started I could find 5 hooks of the same size and I was good to go, then when I started I ended up discovering that they packed their bags and left town. I had to convince hubby to let me buy another one or two. They aren’t prohibitive in cost, it’s just annoying to have to buy one. Trust me I looked everywhere. Well last summer we had to move, and in the process of packing I found my hooks. Now it seems I have 7 or 8 of the size I need for the next project. I just know though they will leave me, just as mysteriously as I found them. I do not know if anyone else has experienced this magical departure of hooks or not, it seems to be a recurring pattern. I know that a few of my kids sneak off with one or two or five to work on projects on their own, and my cat plays with the hooks as much as he disturbs my yarn. I think if I could just have a she shed I may be able to keep all of my hooks from disappearing.

I do have to say that it took me about a week or two for the full size. Some days I was lucky enough to be able to actually work a whole day on the project, other days I was lucky to get 30 minutes. That’s why I love Granny Square patterns, it’s easy to pick up where you left off.


My favorite site to visit and the one where I learned this pattern and use the chart is from The Crochet Crowd.  The place for the pattern is found here.  The chart is fantastic as I said because it gives you measurements of mattress sizes, starting chain count. Look around and have a gander or two. See what you find to encourage your crochet passion.  Like I said before, the Crochet Crowd is one of the first I started looking into on YouTube and online, and I think you’ll like Mikey his tutorial is easy to follow. Anyway, as I said this is a great site and I think if you want to give the blanket a go you should. You could go with buying full skeins or using leftovers. I mean the possibilities are endless really, team colors of a high school team, or college, or professional sports team, favorite color of someone, or to match a color scheme. Or go completely random and use whatever you have lying around.