#Needleworkmonday : Finished crocheted charity squares and my purple hat #2

The photos above show you the process I followed when making a crochet granny square with a heart motif. Here’s the link where I found the diagram if you’re interested. It's a wonderful blog if you haven't seen it before.

I was really keen to learn how to make this variation to donate some different types of 6” squares for that local blanket project.

I guess I have to read more closely how people actually make these squares to try and avoid the floats on the wrong side as much as possible.

I will ask when I hand in the squares if that ‘wrong side is acceptable.

In the meantime if you have any tips on how to avoid them, please let me know as I’m always keen to improve my skills.

As I was saying the other day I often just buy one ball of changing colour yarn because you never know how the colour change will look.

I was therefore pleasantly surprised to see how the basic granny square below above turned out.

I started with the end of yarn that comes from inside the skein. Sometimes it’s quite easy to do that and you just pull that end that lets you work without worrying about the yarn moving all over the place or falling. Often Sometimes things go wrong and you end with two messy half skeins, just take a look below:

For the heart square and for the basic granny square I used a size 4mm crochet hook. I used remnants for the heart square and started a new skein of baby yarn (so it’s quite soft) and the best thing is that it’s machine washable :D

Below is the photo of my finished (second) crocheted hat.

I was pleased with the final result as I had to unravel it. I actually made a fortunate mistake (for rushing things as usual I guess) that resulted in a slightly crooked design. I quite liked how it looked so I had to capitalise on it to change the whole thing and in the process making it slightly bigger.

I am not going to bore you further with the process. You can have a look at my previous post on how I crocheted hat number 1.

As you can see the sections where the increases take place are divided by a straight ‘vertical’ line made of raised stitches (front post trebles).

You might be interested, however, in how I made the ‘spiral’ spokes of the hat #2 …

All I did was to make a half puff stitch to separate the sections and then I skipped two stitches initially by mistake :D and then at the end of the section just before the following half puff stitch I actually crocheted two stitches in the same gap. This kept the same number of stitches when an increase wasn't needed.

Incidentally, just in case you’re wondering… I made the ‘half puff stitch’ by doing a yarn over as if to make a front post treble (fpt), yarn over again to make another fpt; you should have 5 loops on your hook. Draw the yarn through 4 loops and finally draw the yarn through the final loops left on your hook. It looks like a raised stitch (fpt) only it’s half a puff stitch :D

I finished the hat with three rows of single crochet only making the stitches on the back loop of the stitch from the previous row.

@jen0revision kindly took a few snaps of me crocheting part of the edge of the hat.

I aimed to make a final row of crab stitch, but clearly I forgot how to so the last row may look a bit odd but I liked that crooked chain shape so I left :D

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all work by @cryptocariad

A couple of other of my posts related to this post :

https://steemit.com/needleworkmonday/@cryptocariad/needleworkmonday-a-new-crocheted-hat

https://steemit.com/needlework/@cryptocariad/crocheted-squares-for-charity-blanket-and-an-autumn-walk

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