I have to be honest for a moment and air my own craft snobbery. See, I always looked down on crochet. I know right? Who hasn’t? (Well, there are some of you out there but chances are you learned how to crochet before knit). I liked the stitches well enough, but the choice of yarns a lot of crocheter’s used, colors and patterns always turned me off. I really don’t care if it’s the “King of Acrylics” it’s still acrylic and I don’t want to use it. Maybe it was the yarn selection to blame for crotchet’s sad fate. Yarns have come a long way from what I hear in the last 20 years.
Though I had my own crochet snobbery I really wanted to learn how to make a granny square. So one day I sat down and taught myself how to with the help of this youtube video. It’s pretty easy once you get the gist of it and so fast that it tends to be a little on the addictive side.
The yarn I’m using is Noro Kueryon in colorway 149 from my stash. I scored 15 balls of this on ebay a few years back for practically nothing and did nothing with it. I had thoughts of making a noro striped sweater but every time I tried to start it the colors looked like dirt. Here in crocheted form they still look like dirt to me, but in a good way. Like when you are able to see a side section of earth and all the different layers are all lined up. Plus with the granny square the random noro color changes aren’t so noticeable.
Frankly, I’m in love with how this is working up. I was going to make one big granny square but I’m now opting for 2 large center squares with small squares boardering them. Wish me luck.
And here is the OTHER crocheted blanket in the works.
This one will seem like it will take forever I’m sure. It’s completely out of Malabrigo and I’m only buying one skein at a time so I won’t be too overwhelmed.
This weekend the Mr is going into full on knitty noddy production so hopefully by monday I will have something to show you all. I’m also hoping to get him to make some drop spindles but in the end that’s something I myself my turn out on the lathe.
