Luckily, I was able to borrow some from a friend of mine, and a little while ago, while I meant to be looking up videos on how to crochet an edging onto a hat, I wound of thinking of all the leftover yarn I had. I know I'm already doing a scrap blanket, but before most anything gets to the scrap blanket, it's been having a date with my crochet hooks.
I've just been making a couple of sizes in (what I'm guessing) is the basic granny square. I'm using VerPink Knits pattern. (All they use are single crochet, chain, slip stitch, and double crochet) They are super easy and super gratifying because they do work up so fast, so it's easy to sit down and make a granny square or two. I'm pretty much brand new to crochet, and it wasn't too long before I had crocheted myself a whole pile of these things.
I'm also crocheting these to be a blanket, and at first I made the medium sized purple and orange squares. I thought I'd make all the squares for the blanket that size, and then just seam them together. Then I got into my leftovers from the mittens I made. I worked the blue variegated yarn up to be the same size as the purple and orange squares and still had a fair bit leftover. I thought about finishing it off as the same size and just making up another one, but I wasn't sure if it would make it, and that's when I had the idea to make up a couple of different sizes to give the blanket some more variety. All of the squares will be the same pattern, but they'll be in different colors and a choice of four sizes.
Basically the way I figured the sizes is the (medium) purple, orange, and white squares are the basic square that everything is based off of. I did five rounds from the center on those which means they're a total of 11 across. For the smallest size which right now is only represented by the little purple square, I only knitted two rounds from the center which makes them five across or half the width of the basic square.For the large square, I knitted eight rounds from the center so they're seventeen across or half again the length of the basic square. For the giant square, I knitted eleven rounds from the center so it's 23 across or twice the length of the basic square. I know you may be scratching your head at that math right now, but when I counted across I counted the center hole so there's always an extra square, if you will. At first that had me stumped, but then I realized I didn't have to just seam the squares together, I could crochet them together! That extra length there will give me the space to use some kind of crochet edging. I'm thinking double crochet for a unity of theme with the squares, but I'm not sure yet mostly because I don't know if that's even possible or what the best stitch is because I don't know that much about crochet.
The order the squares are set up in now is by no means the final pattern. They do have space between them to leave room for the connective crochet. So far, I'm loving the granny squares because they are so easy and quick, but I feel a little guilty that this is the only crochet I've attempted, and I've had my friend's crochet hooks held hostage for a while. Still, it's not as if I'm not making anything with them.
Happy crocheting!
