Daily Archives: April 24, 2010

I thought I’d better refresh my memory of crochet by making up a couple of granny squares.  I used these fabulous video tutorials from Meet Me at Mikes to refresh my memory.

The problem is that I can’t seem to stop!  Combining the colours is my favourite part 🙂  I’m not sure just how far these tiny balls of wool will go, but I plan on continuing until they run out.  My ideas for ‘things to make’ depending on the amount I can eek out are:

1. cushion cover

2. scarf

3. bassinette blanket (even though blankets are ‘on the outer’ due to SIDS)

4. pram blanket (ditto)

5.cot blanket (ditto)

6. lap blanket

I seriously doubt that I’ll get anywhere near lap blanket size… but it’s there as an option. Just in case. 

I have contempated weighing the squares done so far, weighing the balls of wool and calculating the number of squares I could expect to achieve.  But where’s the fun in that?

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