Granny Squares Challenge Update

You remember how some weeks back I decided to follow Michelle's lead (the heartfelt company) and make a blanket with different Granny Squares as a way of learning how to crochet..........well I thought it was about time I showed you that the wools have not remained in their pristine condition but some of them have actually made it into the required squares.

As you can see they are not all quite the same size.  I have actually made 4 of each design but these are the best of them.  The very first week's ones which were the traditional Granny Square were actually so bad at the first attempt, all buckled and tight, that I undid them and tried again.  The 2nd time they came out flatter and much looser but are now too big.  Rather than lose time and fall even further behind (I am on week 6 now but Michelle is 3 weeks ahead of me in giving out the patterns) I think I will wait a while before redoing the worse ones.

I am really enjoying learning to crochet and it makes it seem a lot more fun to be doing a limited number of a different square each week. 

Mind you I was really tearing my hair out last night when I tried to understand this week's challenge.  I could not understand the photo instructions when it came to doing the corner, however, drawing on the experience of corners previously done I got there in the end.  It did my confidence no end of good to manage this as the pattern gives the skill level as intermediate. 

As you can see it is not quite finished yet............. and then I have 3 more to make.

Thank you Michelle for the challenge and for finding such lovely patterns for us. 

Philippa xx

PS  You've probably seen on the news about all the rain and flooding that has happened here in the South West of England.  I know the River Avon has burst it banks locally so it will be very interesting to see whether I can drive to Bath as the river passes alongside the main road for some of the way.  Hopefully the high pressure that is coming in off the Atlantic will give us a few dry days and a chance for the fields to drain.  My heartfelt sympathies go out to anyone who has been flooded out in the last few weeks, and for some on more than one occasion.



Computer frustrations and general busy-ness

I am so sorry for not posting for a little while.  The Best Beloved has changed computers for me and being a real technophobe I have been shying away from learning where to plug things in on this new one.  I know it's silly but computers are a necessary evil in my mind so the less time I spend on one the better.

It's also been really difficult for me to drag myself to work when the weather has been so wonderfully sunny even if there has been a decided chill in the air.  I am lucky enough to work in the World Heritage Site of Bath, and one day I looked behind me and saw the leaves were all falling off the trees.

I really wanted to be out there kicking my feet through them as I have done since I was a child. 

It seemed as if one minute the leaves were on the trees and the next they were just a carpet on the ground.

Queen Square doesn't look like this now because the tractor arrived together with men with big blowers and all the leaves were sucked up.  That's the trouble I suppose with Bath being so beautiful, it has to be kept that way. 

Yesterday was a good day at work though because after 2 very late nights I finally finished the advent calendar comission.   I hung it above our stairs and it greeted me in the morning.  It looked really quite at home but I know it will be enjoyed in its new home too.  Still I was sad to see it go.

Onwards and upwards.  Tomorrow I am at Spirals Christmas Craft Fair in the Town Hall, Marlborough and no doubt will have a lovely time playing shops again.  If you are there do come and say hello.

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