Third Time’s A Charm Baby!!!!

According to Kim — Yeeeeehaw!!!! 😀    Sidebar — go check her out.  She’s all kinda knitter/crocheter awesome and no, I’m NOT exaggerating.  I don’t know how she cranks out those super intense projects so quickly.  The woman is a machine!!! 

Now back to my “Precious” — there’s nothing else to say, I’m just going to let the F.O. speak for itself.

Behold …. (yes, I’m this corny — I prefer quirky — in real life 😀 )

It actually looks like a square.  Thank you, thankyouverymuch!  😛  Now it’s on to getting some yarn together so I can do some granny square throw pillows for my couch. 

Seriously though, although I initially used these instructions, it was the pattern in this book that connected the dots for me.  I did it with the new instructions 1 time and I was good to go.

Project Details

I can’t speak to any of the other instructions for stitches in this book but if the Granny Square instructions are anything to go by, I’ll say that I’m in for a treat!   It’s crazy, I picked up this book on a whim for $5.99 at a local bookshop; so far it seems to be a gem.  The reviews on Amazon about the book don’t seem to be very good, but for me so far so good.

I’m on Fiyah!!!! First Granny Square

*said in my Doug Heffernan voice*

So I tried a granny square!  It looks fine from this angle.

But let me move the skein of yarn … LOLOL!!!  😀

Oye!!!  The top part of it needs some crutches.  LOLOL  😀  I’m not mad though.  I think I  have the general idea in my head and I’m already planning to make a granny square blanket and join Carole at her “One A Day” meme.  Woooooo Nellie.  I can see these squares becoming as addictive to me as hexipuffs are to crafters all around the world.

For whatever it’s worth, I got it started, I rocked my dc (double crochet stitches) and I’m a happy camper. 😀

Now it’s time for bed so I’ll try this again tomorrow.

ETA: Now that I’ve slept on it, straightened the square out, and consulted some crochet gurus, I realise that I didn’t complete the round, I’m missing a corner cluster.  I’m going to do it from scratch since I don’t have enough bind off yarn to do the 5 dcs.  I could just join yarn if I wanted to but hey … I’m going to start over from the beginning.  Hopefully by the end of the day, I’ll have a couple done.

ETA: 7.20.2012

Round 2: Getting better.  😀