Granny Squares By The Dozen

 There is a fiber arts festival in Wadesboro, NC tomorrow. Well, it is today and tomorrow but I am going tomorrow.  When I first learned about it I noted that the sponsors called for anyone who could make a granny square might donate it for a charitable purpose they have up their sleeve. Immediately I made one—a month or six weeks ago—then this week decided to make more since I had misplaced the first one.

Here are my offerings:

These were crocheted with a 9.00 mm hook holding a strand of Hobby Lobby’s I Love This Yarn together with a strand of Ice brand yarn—definitely NOT loved by me. I loved the color way-Picasso- but the yarn by itself was impossible for me to use…thus two strands together project.  I do love how colorful the squares turned out.

It would be interesting to see the sponsor’s project made up. I myself have contributed squares that are five different sizes…

This reminds me of a time many years ago when we invited sisters to each knit a square for a blanket our Relief Society wanted to donate to the homeless shelter nearby. First we needed to teach the ladies to knit. When they all contributed their squares we had squares of many many sizes and shapes…not the even 7” squares we had hoped for. Since it was my crackpot idea I felt I needed to put them together. Imagine how much work that was going to be!! 

Fortunately Heavenly Father made a suggestion to me when I was in that state between sleeping and waking: get a knitting machine and turn them into strips.  I got up and sent a message to Freecycle. The next day someone offered me a  Bond knitting machine. I had to drive more than an hour each way but that saved me weeks of knitting by hand. After I passed the learning curve on the Bond, I was able to make strips of squares then knitted them together. It was a win-win since we were able to use all the squares and I did not lose my mind!  How good is that?!!