Crochet a little happiness: Granny squares for blanket

red and orange granny square

As you may recall, I have been asked to crochet a blanket for a wheelchair user.  I decided that the quickest and easiest way of completing such a big task would be to make several granny squares and stitch them together afterwards.

I am using the same colours I used in the rainbow poncho for Elise (that was the request).  I have got a comprehensive guide for which colours are going to be used, but no firm decisions as to how I am going to arrange them all yet.

red and white granny square

I was thinking about starting with red in the middle, then doing squares with all the colours of the rainbow, then joining them together and doing a red border around those squares, then doing the same thing through all the other colours.  This would mean for every 6 squares I made they would be formed into a mini-blanket which would then eventually be made up into one full size blanket.

This idea is good in theory, excpet I would be left with all the colours of the rainbow with white, and I wouldn’t have the one central colour to join them all together.  So will need to think about this little dilema.  There’s plenty of time to think about it though, as got a lot more squares to make yet.

Update

The second year of my law degree officially starts in 2 days time (ok technically it starts tomorrow seeing as it is past midnight).  I have been busy preparing for the course to start and checking that all the forums, software and databases are working.

I have also been asked to crochet a blanket for a wheelchair user (in the same colours as the rainbow poncho)  I’ve been inspired by ChrissyFresh: A Granny A Day Project and have decided that I am going to crochet enough granny squares to make this blanket – I have a plan and know exactly what colours I’m using for each square, I just have to find the time to get the hooks out.  I currently have 3 squares for the blanket (pics up soon) and I am also doing a rainbow blanket for Elise.

My eldest son, Ryan, has been unwell this week, I received a phone call from his school on Monday morning and I had to pick him up.  We got half way home and he decided he was going to vomit all over the inside of my car and down the windows too as he tried to get his head out the window – poor kid was so upset and kept apologising to me because he had made a mess.

In between being a ‘nurse’ to Ryan I have been taking in an engagement party dress – I have been horrified at the construction of this dress and, although it does look absolutely beautiful from the outside, the stitching quality and fabric placement has been just awful.  I did a fitting tonight after band practise and just need to do a couple of minor adjustments for a final fitting on Sunday, which should also be the time I hand it back and think myself lucky I won’t have to see it again (here’s hoping).

Talking of band practise, the little girl I’m teaching to play cornet is making me so proud, and is now on a planned introduction to the band rehearsal, she should hopefully be playing out with them in 5 weeks time when the band is next responsible for providing the music in our morning Church service.

I will hopefully get the book reviews out the way tomorrow (or should that be later today?) I haven’t slept yet so it’s still today (Thursday).  Will have to arm myself with Twitter and my Kindle so I can refresh my mind on the books and get the reviews done.  I honestly haven’t forgotten that I have a back-log, it’s just someone has hidden the life-remote-control and life is currently running on fast-forward.  I wish someone would return the life-remote-control so I can press pause for a few minutes and get some peace.

30 Things About Me:

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This was a Twitter trend and I decided to write this up on a page instead of writing it all in a blog entry

Crochet a little happiness (3): Rainbow poncho

Wearing the rainbow

Elise proudly wearing the rainbow poncho I finished today. This is the only smile she has given today as she is not feeling well; she has a nasty cough that sounds like it could be an asthmatic cough, she sounds exactly like her brother Martyn did when he was her age.

 

Anyway, Elise and I took a trip to our local craft shop on Tuesday and she loved the chance to look at all the wool. She was so excited to be able to choose the colours (although we did have a disagreement about whether pink was in the rainbow or not).

 

Normally when we go into shops I ask her what the rules are, and she’ll reply “don’t touch and don’t run off” well on this trip she was allowed to touch, after all she had to know how soft it would be as she would be wearing the finished product – she was so excited!

 

I’m not too happy with the shade of orange, it seems a bit too yellow, and the yellow isn’t particularly bright, but on reflection I think it looks ok – and she’s happy so that’s all that matters. I have loads of the wool left, so the next task is a big rainbow blanket. I don’t know whether I am going to do a big ‘granny square’ or if I’ll do it as a circle, I guess I won’t know that until she tells me what she wants.

 

Unfortunately I am running out of time to crochet things nows, the next module of my law degree starts on the 4th February, so will soon have my head back in the books. It will be good to study again, but I’m going to miss the creativeness and happiness-giving crochet time.

 

I have been keeping a note of some Twitter trends that I particularly like and when I have some more time to concentrate, without having ‘tired-mummy-brain’ I will update my blog with them. I will also get on with the book reviews (when I can remember what the books were about) and I’m feeling fresher and more able to concentrate. I haven’t forgotten.

 

Anyway, I am going to wish everyone a good night and try to get some sleep before the coughing wakes Elise up again – it’s been a rough few days/nights! We have a follow-up appointment with our family doctor a week tomorrow so hopefully we shall get some answers and a plan for managing her coughing.

Crochet a little happiness (2)

I caught Elise with the wet wipes, a pull-up and her doll laying on a cushion.  Apparently the doll need it’s nappy changing!!  Not having much of this wool left, I asked her if she would like a bag and some ‘wet wipes’ she was really eager, so out came the hooks!

Ok so I know granny squares have holes in them but they are so quick to make up, (and we are only pretending here) so Elise now has a pile of wet wipes and this little bag to keep them in.

Her doll’s have stayed fresh and I’m not picking wet wipes off the floor to throw them away – smiles all round 🙂

The only thing I have to do now is some triangular ‘nappies’ as her brothers’ just couldn’t keep their mouths shut!

Crochet a little happiness

Elise’s wonderful and caring eldest brother, Ryan, bought this doll for her at his school fayre, unfortunately it didn’t have any clothes to wear.  For about a year this doll has been able to wear Elise’s baby clothes, however, although the clothes fitted the doll in the length, they were too big for it.  Elise got annoyed that they kept falling off.

After seeing me crochet some little bits for a friend’s baby, and after doing some hats for Elise, she asked if I could make her doll something.

We went off to the shops and I let her choose which wool she would like, and I set about creating these trousers and top for her doll.  Elise is over the moon at her doll’s clothes and is busy telling me her list of what she wants next.  Guess the crochet hooks won’t be going away for some time.

Something so quick, easy and cheap and yet the ‘payment’ or reward of having a happy smiling child is worth more than all the money in the world.

(Elise doesn’t look particularly happy in this picture, she had just finished dinner and didn’t want to pose for a picture, being more eager to get off and play)