GRANNY SQUARES!
My grandmother taught me how to crochet. It wasn't anything fancy. She had a basket full of yarn and some hooks. Me and my siblings would sit and crochet very long chains while we watched TV. That was all I knew, single crochet. I don't remember everything my grandmother crocheted, but I do remember her Granny Squares! I remember her even making slippers out of Granny Squares.
It wasn't until years later, that I finally bought myself a "How-To" book and taught myself something other than a big long single crochet chain. But I still find crocheting very relaxing and it brings back many memories of sitting making those original chains.
In the next few days, I will be posting my favorite version of the Granny Square in honor of my Grandma.
nice! i dont know crochet at all. No passion to learn it. ;-)
ReplyDeleteNow crochet, that's something I can do!! I learned this same pattern in the 5th grade. Our teacher (who was male) gave us a class project to each create an afghan made up of 50 squares!! Mine ended up being 24... baby sized! :)
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that is so sweet.i taught myself to crochet as well, and my favourite item to crochet is the granny square!
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I have some granny squares my grandmother crocheted, I just could never get the hang of it. My mother and I were wondering the other day what we could do with them. Slippers sounds pretty cool!
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