Hello everybody,
I was grateful and excited when one of the Admin of our crochet local group here in our Island, message me and invited me to participate on making Granny Squares to make the biggest Christmas Tree ever here in Mandaue City. The 1200 Granny Squares joined to form the '23 Crocheted Christmas Tree. I replied happily, Yes, of course I will definitely participate. I must submit 40squares on Oct 30. The project calls for 4ply milk cotton, so without delay I ordered at Shoppee right away and glad much it arrived and delivered last last week.
The instruction was to make any granny squares measuring 6 inches, using 5mm crochet hook and the last row must be Christmas green. Upon the arrival of my materials I right away make the traditional simple granny squares, I was too excited, in just how many minutes I made one but when I measure it, oh, oh, to my dismay the 6 rounds granny square I made measured 7 inches.
In the next square I made, I experimented, I use small size crochet hook which was 4mm. But, still my square still bigger than 6 inches. So, I adjusted. On the next square, in two rounds I use the 4mm then on the next 3rd to 6th round I used 3mm crochet hook, alas, it was perfect 6 inch square!
I made 10 simple traditional granny squares.
I really thought I could make the 40 squares fast and submit it early but I stopped crocheting because we rush hubby to the hospital, we stayed there for 5 days, no time to crochet, because when we went home I tend to cleaning the house and did the laundry.
Yesterday, I was glad to picked the hook again. This time I tried another granny design I saw in Pinterest and made my version, amazingly it measured 6 inches exactly. With the same techniques using two different crochet hook sizes.
Here's another color scheme with same design. I plan to make only 10 for this design and another 10 pcs with another design. 10 pcs for every design to fulfill my 40 pcs requirements.
That is all folks for my yarn bombing participation on our Cebu Crochet Group. I will post my next square design in my next post. See yah!
GIF by @gremayo
