Experimenting With Lace Granny Squares

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!