Crafting 101

Today I’m going to help you to join your squares that you put the border on yesterday. It’s rather simple and you can do it many ways. The way I’m showing you will give it a decorate border between the squares, just something different. You can easily change it up if you want to.

First off, take your squares and lay them out in four square sections. Take two squares and put them back to back. You want to line them up so the corners are even. You might run into the problem of some squares seeming to be larger than others, but it’s easy to fix.

You want to join your yarn with a slip stitch to the corner of the square facing you. Chain 2 and then put a single crochet in the single crochet of the other granny square. This is joining the two granny squares together so that you can work between them.

Then you will make a double crochet in the next stitch of the granny square in front. Single crochet in the single crochet on the granny square in the back. You’ll continue this across both granny squares until you come to the end.

Your work should look like this picture.  If you find that your squares are uneven, then you can put either two double crochets in one stitch or two single crochets in one stitch depending on if it’s the back granny square that is uneven or the front granny square. You will be able to see it and figure it out.

Now you’ve come to the corner. This is very simple too. It’s time to join a third square. You’ll find that you might have to go around several squares then fasten off and start with another side of the square or start joining more squares together. Everything is the same. You just continue along the edge, double crochet in the next stitch on the front granny square and single crochet in the corner stitch of a new square in the back. Then go across that side of the square. When you get to the corner, if you have another square to add, join that one on.

Tomorrow I will post my completed project and show you have to make a border on the afghan. Also, if you don’t like how the single crochets look, you can always make it a double crochet. There are many ways to join the squares, this is just something I made up for you to try that’s pretty simple.

Remember that July is sewing month! I’m excited to start whipping out sewing projects like crazy! July 1st I will post the schedule of what we will accomplish during the month of July. So grab your sewing machine, thread and lots of fabric! TTFN!

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