Jun 28 2008
June 28, 2008
My apologies for not posting yesterday. The day got away from me and the husband and I actually went to see a movie for the first time in over a year. But on we go!
Remember all those granny squares that we made? We made five total. I’m not sure if you have just those five or if you’ve made more than that. It doesn’t matter, you’re going to need to gather them all for this project which will take the next couple of days to complete.
For today, you’re going to need to get a nice contrasting solid color that compliments the other color or colors you’ve used in the squares. I did all my squares in pink so I picked white. We are going to be joining these squares to make an afghan with them. Depending on how many squares you made will determine how big your afghan will be.
With your contrasting color, you’re going to need to create a border around each square so that we can join them later. Take your contrasting color and join it to one of the corners of your first square with a slip stitch. Chain 1 then in that same corner, sc two more times. Along each side you are going to put on sc in each stitch and 2 sc in each space (most are chain 2 spaces). There are 3 sc in each corner. When you go around each side and come back to the beginning, join with a slip stitch, fasten off and weave in your ends. You need to do this to each of your squares. The only square that will be different is the Oval Eye square. The corners are different so you’ll need to put 6 sc in each corner.
Once you’ve done this around all your squares, you’ll be ready for tomorrow’s assignment – to join them together with a neat border. So be sure they are all done because once we start the border, you can’t add anymore to it.
See you tomorrow!
