Granny Squares for charity

Last week I found a nice project for the charity "Helfen mit Herz und Händen" ("Helping with heart and hands"). This charity is meant to help poor children in Berlin and the purpose is to knit, crochet or sew clothing or toys for these children. Jasmin from the web page veilchenschoen.de has been taking part in that charity and within that also developed her own little "variation project". She thought it would be good if she could get as many of her readers and customers (she owns a yarn store) to help crochet granny squares in order to make one or more baby blanket(s) for the charity mentioned above. Unfortunately, I only learned about that project last week and the dead line is already on Monday (25th). So I lost no time and got my 3,0 mm crochet hook and started crocheting three colorful granny squares. I used some cotton yarn that I still had left over from cocheting all the kids' sun hats in spring. Then I quickly went to the post office on Thursday and sent the granny squares off to Germany. And now I hope that the post is not slow and that Jasmin will get my squares in time to use them for the blankie!!! 

Here are the granny squares I sent: 

I crocheted them using a pattern from Lucy from Attic 24. She designed the square called "Summer Garden Granny Square" and the pattern can be seen HERE. 

It was so much fun to crochet these little squares in between and to send them off on a big journey in a safe and comfy bubble wrap envelope. The thought of them maybe helping to warm a child or baby in need is very exciting and I am so glad I took part in the project after all :-)

PS: Sorry that many of the links I gave in this post are in German...

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Another crochet hat...

The other day I just wanted to crochet something that would be finished straight away since I love that instant feeling of success! So I looked through my stack of wool and yarn and found a grey ball that was not so scratchy and I made a new hat for Little T:

And this is what it looks like on the head:

The pattern is from HERE (Pardon My Chaos).

It was completed really quickly, mostly because it almost only consists of triple crochets! With that you have the hat in your hands in no time :-)

Besides crocheting little new things I am currently part of a top secret surprise project for someone special, which is why there are quite a few new crocheted items on my desk but I cannot share them (yet)...

By the way, the blog from which I took the pattern for the hat is really great, I can only recommend to swing by and have a look:

pardonmychaos-amanda.blogspot.com

Also, I found another one that I really like:

mckinleyscloset.blogspot.com

There are loads of wonderful ideas for knit and crochet projects to be found! But the blogger seems to be quite busy at the moment which is why the last real post has been written in January. Oh well, I keep myself entertained with the archive then :-)

See you soon :-)

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Designing granny squares...

...is a whole lot of fun but also quite tricky! In the last post I already showed you my first self-designed granny square and here you can see it again in a more detailed shot:

And last night while watching the newest episode of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" I started crocheting a second granny square and just made it up while the yarn was literally jumping off my hook :-)

I really like it! I wanted to create something with leaves and that's also the part I like most (the green). But I think I will have to come up with a better center since the current one seems a little stiff or hard for the blossomy rest. Maybe a flower. 

And since I am already designing granny squares I can as well write instructions for them, too. So I think tonight I will sit down and write the instructions for these two grannies and maybe post them already tomorrow, we'll see.

Alongside creating granny squares I am working on two other "use-up-old-yarn crochet projects" at the moment (surprise, surprise...). First I am making a very colorful striped snake for the little one. It's supposed to be 1,50 m (4'11") and by now I have completed 40 cm (15,75"). So it's still quite a way... The project is very comfortable though since it doesn't have to be "perfect" and it's crocheted quite quickly.

Also I still have so much brown and beige yarn that I don't need (and also don't wanna use for either the snake or the grannies) and that's why I decided to make a pillow cover. It will suit our couch very well since that's brown. The cover will also be made of granny squares, but small ones that are crocheted very tightly, only consisting of single and half double crochets. There are no pictures yet but when I crocheted a little more I will sure document my progress :-)

And becaue of all the crocheting I neglect my zipper sweater project :-( But somehow I feel much more like crochting than knitting at the moment... :-)

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