Crocheting Fun!

Hey guys, Wrennie here! 

Callie and I are working on a super secret project! I can't tell you about it yet BUT I decided to make something for it. A blanket! Or an afghan really.  But first I needed some yarn:

We have a really big yarn stash! I spent forever looking for just the right yarn.

I really love this brown sparkly one but that's not what I want!

Finally I found what I was looking for in my own yarn basket!

These two:

Rainbows with a sparkly white! That will be perfect for me and Callie.

I decided that I wanted to do granny squares for this blanket:

Crocheting is fun and pretty easy! It's also a super old way of making fabric. Here I found that it most likely comes from a very ancient kind of embroidery from China. They used tiny hooks to embroider tight super right fabric. In the 1700's French people started using hooks and string to make fabric without using a fabric back. It was called crocheting in the air! Isn't that cool?

Granny squares are harder to find any kind of history on! But from several sources it looks like they showed up in the 1800's as a way to use up and not waste the bits and pieces of yarn left over from other things! They're still pretty useful for that but I'm not really doing bits and pieces this time!

I made two different kinds of squares:

Rainbow on the outside with white on the inside and rainbow on the inside and white on the outside. I had to make A LOT! Like 8 of the first kind and 17 of the second.

Next I had to attach them all to each other! You can do that in a lot of ways but this time I decided to crochet them together:

I like doing that because it makes a cool little ridge pattern.

I crocheted the squares into strips:

 And then I crocheted all the strips together:

Gotta make sure that the ridges all go the same way! I had one more strip to go in that picture and don't worry about all those strings. They got taken care of next.

After all the squares were crocheted together I started on the edging.

I single crocheted all around the blanket for two rounds. See? No more strings!

But then I decided I needed something a bit fancier. So I used the rainbow yarn again and made a shell edging. And finally it's done!

 Doesn't it look cozy?

It turned out pretty big too! It covers up my whole couch!

I think it's time for a nap now:

Nah! I'm just kidding!

But it is my new favorite blanket :) and I'm pretty proud of it! I hope you guys like it too. Now for that nap......

Wrennie

Clothes
Wrennie: 
     Outfit: AG Striped Hoodie Outfit
     Earrings: AG Fresh and Fun Earrings