9.25: Sewing up

The original plan for this crocheted granny square throw was 5 squares wide by 7 tall. As of Tuesday night, I had 35 squares — 33 according to the chart I made, and 2 that I’d made previously.

There’s my stack o’ squares!

And there’s my final layout. I considered adding another column, but I grabbed Parcheesi to compare, and this is exactly the same size — and it will be substantially heavier. (I can’t believe it’s almost 15 years since I finished Parcheesi!)

It took about four tries last night to wrap my head around joining these squares! It was a challenge just figuring out which loops to join on each square so they’d match up reasonably well. Add in my apparent inability to count — I ran across more than one place where I made two double crochets into a space instead of three, and I’ve only joined four squares so far — yeah, challenging!! Anyway, I want to crochet it all together, rather than sewing, and initially thought I’d join the squares in each row and then join all the rows together. Turns out, that would be a lot of starting, stopping, cutting, knotting, weaving in. It makes much more sense to join the columns, starting at the bottom & working up. (Thank you, YouTube tutorials!)

As of now, the four squares at bottom left are joined up the middle. I’m hoping to make a little more progress this evening! And already contemplating border possibilities.