Craft Gossip

Apr

9

GRANNY’S NOT SO OLD…..

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I took the first of a series of ‘Advanced Crochet’ classes last night at Knit and Caboodle in St. Charles, Missouri with the lovely Christina Marie Potter as the teacher.  I was one of the more ‘advanced’ students (which is a particularly scary thought!!).  Two of the six students really wanted to learn the basic granny square.  Christina hadn’t anticipated getting to that point during the first class, but she pulled out a pattern from a newly published book (a crochet for tots book) and started us off with the basics.  I hadn’t made a granny square in a couple of years.  Couldn’t believe how rusty I was!!  But, pretty soon, I was back in the groove.  The other gals got up to speed very quickly.

Christina had pulled three crochet books off the shelf for us to browse.  This one, I think it was a Candi Jensen,

Lately, I’ve found some great new ‘twists’ on the time-honored Granny Square.  Wanted to share this one with you.  I think it’s my favorite:

http://crochetme.com/patterns/granny-spiral

http://crochetme.com/patterns/granny-spiral

Think of all the cool things you could do with this little spiral granny!  I’m itching to get my scraps out right now but I can’t since I’m headed out the door to a working dinner.  Rats!  When I get home, it’s me, the sofa, and my scrap yarn!

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  1. Sezzy on April 9, 2009 5:37 am

    This is absolutely gorgeous! I “collect” squares (all roughly the same size but each different and unique) to put together into a very interesting afgan which increases in size regularly! Many thanks for sharing the link. Good luck with the rest of the class – I’m very jealous! :)

  2. Tammy on April 9, 2009 8:24 am

    This is nice. I’m going to check out that link you put up right now. Thanks!

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