My first granny square
June 29th, 2007 by CandaceI’ve been dying to jump on the granny bandwagon. I mean, look at all these pictures? How can a crocheter not be inspired? This picture is what completely inspired me to get started – the colors, the shape, the way it all fits together – gah, I’m swooning!
But where to find a great tutorial on how to go about making a granny square? First place I looked was on our very own site with our very own Heather (if you haven’t done this yet and want to learn, Heather’s instructions are very clear, even for a knucklehead like me). I did great creating the ring and adding the first row. But after that, I was getting really frustrated mainly because the pattern wasn’t making any sense. So I found a different pattern – the same square, different instructions and those were just as bad. I finally (finally, after almost two hours and a hissy fit later) found a video tutorial for how to make a granny square and the visual catapulted me to my first finished granny square. Behold!
It looks a little unpolished, but after all the frustration I was just glad I was done. Normally I just give up when it gets really tough and I can’t seem to get it, but I just love crocheting so much, I knew I had to power through and I did. I would love to do one incorporating other colors, but ya know, I just don’t know if I’m ready. Someone please tell me it’s easy?
June 29th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Looks great Candace!
I really love to crochet, and have been following Heather’s lessons. That granny square pattern was really hard to follow…it’s great that you found a video, I think that’s the best way to “get it”. Re: incorporating other colors, it’s not too difficult. I think the main thing is getting used to following the “general” granny square pattern. Happy crocheting!
June 29th, 2007 at 9:48 am
A crochet-initiated hissy fit, huh? That I’d like to see!
I think it looks great. Cute!
June 29th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
incorporating other colors is really easy – it must be easy as the first crocheting I ever did a zillion years ago turned into a queen sized granny square afgan from yarn scraps – at that time I just tied the new color to the old color and covered the ends with the shells in one corner – the only thing I would do, if I were you is to make the last round on each square a consistent color (traditionally the last round is black) and use that color to crochet the squares together at the end. that unifies the whole piece and adds the possibility of a fancy border around the whole thing.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Crocheting granny squares is one of the easiest things to do. Once you get the hang of it, you can just blindly crochet yourself into a sea of squares!
June 30th, 2007 at 7:57 am
OH yea…granny squares are fun once you get the hang of it. And you can do them in different colors and crochet them together..Go for it..I know you can. BTW…great job!!
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Good job
. You know, I got stuck in the same place on the pattern too. It was a bit hard for a newbie to follow!
February 12th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
my granny squares now looked like my first one. have you tried doing to thread crocheted granny squares?
February 12th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
I have a question. I am making a big granny square and it doesn’t look square to me. It looks a little lopsided. Do you have any suggestions?