New project on the crochet front is this Diagonal stitch that I am making into a blanket.  I like it.  It was tricky to start cause I was learning from photographs and I can’t read a pattern, but in the end I got the hang of it, and now I am bulldozing ahead.

With Pinterest peaking my love of craft, I have been getting into a fair bit of it these days.  Today it is rainy and cold, so I grabbed a canvas and got crafty.

Firstly I nailed little tacks into the wooden border, all around the edge, in no particular order.

Then I grabbed all my random cottons and got winding.
This is the end result.

Then I grabbed chip board letters, flowers and buttons and fiddled around until I thought it looked right.  I stuck then on using the glue gun.

And the neaten up the back and hide all the cotton tags and ends I covered it in card stock, and staple gunned a hanging string.  Ready to give to my niece for her 4th birthday.

Easy peasy.  And the day is done and I have to get the kids from school!

Cut off all the wooly tags and there you have it…..a granny blanket.

Border each square with a row of a contrasting colour. Then stitch each square together and then each row and then border the whole lot with a different colour.

Crochet 70 granny squares..they take about 10 minutes each.

Start with some wool!

Made this yesterday after seeing a similar thing on Pinterest. I’m stoked with how it turned out.