Crochet Squares on fire !

Crochet Squares on fire !

Recently I have become a crochet square crazy. I wanted to make a blanket for my daughter who said yes but denied to use it as we rarely need blankets in Hyderabad even in winters. I somehow emotionally blackmailed my husband to share a colourful blanket which he was almost ready but later suceeded in convincing me that no one is going to look your masterpiece if it is lying around in bedroom. So I gave up the idea and concentrated on making cushion covers with those squares.

I am suppose to make 9 squares for each cushion, that amounts to 45squares  for 5 of them. I work with sport weight yarn.

I made the above spiral square taking reference from one of the patterns provided in a free ebook at
http://www.crochetme.com/content/Free-eBooks.aspx. You have to work 3 rows together alternating one by one.

Earlier I knew only a little of crochet stitches. I made the other squares from the book '50 fabulous crochet squares' by Leisure arts.

A standard granny square which was quite easy so I decided to use this as an alternating square in my cushion cover.

 

 

 

 

Assembling .... I wanted a thick strip to join them and did not want to create borders on all squares. That could have been extra work . I devised a new way.

 

 

 

A clean joining finally. I will share the technique I used in joining these squares in my next post.  If possible, pattern too.

 

All the photos for my blog are taken by my nine-year-old daughter. I am the worst photographer in my family. The chocolates that were deliberately spilled out of the box, never went inside :)

 

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Enjoy!

Preeti