Aloha beautiful people! I’ve finally managed to pry myself away from my most recent addiction to post and say ‘hi’ 🙂 It’s a beautiful, mild-sunny and breezy day over here and although I felt tired & heavy during this morning’s power walk (my fitness challenge for June), a hearty breakfast quickly brought back my spirits.
So now let’s talk about g-squares 🙂
So I really want to start crocheting wearables with lace motifs as I mentioned here. But I don’t have crochet experience other than doilies (yet) so I stayed within granny sqaure realm and found a tutorial for this lacy beauty online:
But when I joined the squares together, something just didn’t feel right.
I thought it looked rather ‘noisy’:
A bit downhearted, I was about to trash the squares. After all, if I’m going to invest time in making it and eventually wearing it, I must be 100% okay with the pattern to begin with, right?
But a friend encouraged me to ‘save the squares’ and try experimenting. Which is what I did. For almost the entire day last Sunday 😀
As you can imagine I came up with a handful of fails at first. This one was a finalist:
But I wanted something airy-er, so I finally settled on this:
And I think they attach rather beautifully now:
My vision was super blurry by the time I finished but I felt pretty good about the whole experimenting thing. As a beginner in the (wonderful!) art of crochet, being able to modify like this already felt huge to me 🙂
I’m thinking this would look nice as a shrug. We’ll see!
Wow! I am impressed that you are already modifying crochet patterns. I am not that great of a crocheter and have not picked up a hook in years, but I could never have changed a pattern and made it look so beautiful! I can knit pretty well, but I am a stick to the pattern type of gal. I’d be afraid I really mess it up if I altered. You did a great job! Love the lacy block and how they look all connected. Can’t wait to see your finish. A shawl would be beautiful.
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Thanks, Ginny 🙂 I still have much to learn and it’s such an engaging craft.
And you’re a rock star at cross-stitching! 🙂
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I love the lighter look, you’re work was definitely with the effort.
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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That is going to make a really cute shrug. Will you share the link to the pattern pleas? I may try to incorporate that into some of my work. Good luck with it!
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Thank you! 🙂
The tutorial is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctLxYnR7w3c
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…wow – congratulations!!! I mean, I think even the first ideas do look amazing, but the last one is surely perfect 😀 !!! Be proud of yourself ❤
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Terima kasih! ❤
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Sama samaaaaaaa ❤
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Looks lovely! Nice work 🙂
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Thanks a lot! 🙂
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I will be perfectly honest, I have never done crochet in my life. But it looks like you took a lot of time and care (going by your post) into making those! That’s awesome! How hard is it?
Also thank you for liking my post about complacency! I truly appreciate it! 🙂
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Not hard at all 🙂 Once you master how to hold the hook and how to weave the yarn with it, you’re good to go 🙂
Thanks so much for dropping by ❤
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