Monday 25 July 2011

Sucrette’s Giant Granny Challenge

No it is not a contest to see how many Thorntons chocolates a granny can eat but a challenge to make the biggest crochet granny square we can.  Interested? then click here  to see Sucrette’s first post on this Crochet-along challenge.  What harm can it do to take a peak?

How did I get tempted with this you ask?  Well it was my blog friend Katrin who tempted me ;-D

There is also a group for this on Flickr so you can be tempted too, to have a go.

Here is my first picture.  A basket of the yarn I’ll be using and how far I got yesterday evening with my square.

Elly's Giant Granny Challenge

The yarn is from a weekly magazine publication which I subscribed to early last year.  It was a magazine to show you how to crochet.  Each week the magazine came with a ball of yarn and you were supposed to make a square in a particular pattern, the end result would be a patchwork style blanket with a sampler of the different stitches.  Well I never quite got around to making it and stopped my subscription at the 30 something magazine.  So I have all these balls which are the same weight and same type.  So this is what I shall use up in this challenge.  Once the yarn is done so will be my square. :))

Happy sewing or crocheting or knitting,

Ellyx

5 comments:

  1. Hi Elly,
    how nice that I got you stuck on the CAL. It will be fun to watch your progress, and with 30 balls of yarn your granny will become quite large!
    KATRIN W.

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  2. Oh Elly I have come back to your blog again today to find more temptation. The Dear Hannah quilt is lovely, but I am not sure I will be able to resist a big granny square quilt along. That is the only afghan pattern that my Mother ever made, and I love to crochet. I just started a granny stripe afghan....maybe I could just stop and use this yarn for the CAL. I'll just count my balls of yarn and think........

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  3. How many 'alongs' can a girl do? I so want to do this one but I have the Summer Bow Tie quilt along and the Farmers Wife 'Sampler quilt along and I'm knitting a sock yarn blanket, So many projects, so little time. I bet I end up doing this one too :-)

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  4. OMGoodness... temptation is everywhere! Every time [which is almost daily!] I vist your blog or Katrin's, I get the itch to begin yet another project! Help, the world is spinning and I'm falling off! LOL. So, today I will try to locate some of my yarn... it will keep me busy and off the streets, anyway!

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  5. It's good to get caught up with you. Wow, cool new project. I have an afghan that my mom made me before I went to University and it's a giant granny square. I didn't go count the rows, but its bigger than a twin bed. I'll be looking forward to your progress.

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