My Granny Square Baby Blanket...

This post was scheduled to post in March and somehow it didn't make it...I will come back and add photos when/if I have extra time to come finish this blanket (maybe over the summer :-) )

I love crocheting and knitting and wish I were better at it and had more time.

Well I wanted to make a baby blanket, I have attempted it many times somewhat unsucessfully. The blanket I attempted before this one is still sitting in my unfinished project box, I ran out of the correct color of yarn and can't find the pattern I was using so I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do.

When I started this blanket I wasn't really planning on posting a tutorial, hense the lack of step by step photos...

However I ended up somewhat writing my own pattern (well making it up as I went) however it is pretty simple. I couldn't find a pattern for a one piece granny square baby blanket that I liked. So I made this one up...

I started mostly the same as a normal granny square,

Chain 5 and join in a circle.

Round 1:

Chain 3 (1st double crochet) do 2 more double crochet in the circle created by the initial chain, chain 2, (3 double crochet chain 2)...repeat ( ) until you have 4 corners.

Where I stopped with the first is where I started Round 2, following the same pattern in the corners I did two sets of 3 double crochet with a chain 2 in between them for a corner. (I started the first double crochet as 3 chains to start the next round)

After several rounds I realized that I was starting at the middle of the row instead of at the corners, so I slip stitched to the corner and then started the next round.

About the same time I realized it was going to be more square than what I was wanting, so I did a round where I slip stitched across one side in a couple of the stitches near the corners I would slip stich into the front and back of the stich so I didn't have the edges curling up, then ( 3 double crochet, chain 1 ) across the next, slip stich 3rd side, ( ) fourth side.

Then I did a couple normal rounds.

Then another slip stich, ( ) round to make it a little more rectangular in shape.

I also did a few rounds with 2 chain between all the 3 double crochets on the sides to make sure it wasn't curling up.

Sorry for the yucky directions, let me know if you have any questions and I'll see if I can answer them...