Granny Squares

Granny Squares are definitely among my favorite ways to crochet! 

This is a recent project that combined some scraps and some random yarns to make a colorful lap afghan.

After making two randomly-colored rounds on each, I gave them a little consistency with a third round in an ombre turquoise. 

I used black for the background, partly because it looks classy, and partly because I had a lot of black yarn. I added a simple edging in a bumpy, bulky black yarn, and it was the perfect use for it!

Backstitching

I love the difference that a little backstitching can make on a cross-stitch project!

 Here's the before:

And here's the after:

This makes 14 letters complete in this project.

A Picture ... It could be worth a thousand words ...

Most of my favorite blogs post interesting content daily, or at least a few times a week.

When I write for my own blog, I tend to want to write long, wordy posts with tons of great pictures. 😀 But my all-or-nothing side gets in the way, and if I don't have time for a long, wordy, picture-y blog post, then I post nothing at all.

So, in the spirit of sharing fun stuff, encouraging creativity, and recording some of my projects, I'm going to try to create more frequent just-a-photo posts.

Here's a start:

My current cross -stitch project. It's been decades in the making, but this year, I'm actually making progress!