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For the Vintage Granny blanket you will need nine colours of yarn, one of which will be used just for the final round in each square, for joining your squares, and for the final border row.
The Granny Square pattern we used
can be found in the tutorials section of the Patchwork Heart blog.
Yarn used : Stylecraft Special DK
Hook used: 4mm
This is a great stash buster project to use up whatever you have but if you want to follow our colours we used the Patchwork Heart colour recipe so one ball in each of…….
Start by crocheting a solid colour square in each of your eight colours., following
the pattern on The Patchwork Heart. We did seven rounds in our squares. Remember DO NOT do a solid square in the 9th colour as it is to be used for the final round and joining.
Next, crochet 6 of each of the following eight squares., so 48 in total.
Now that all your squares are complete lay them all out in the pattern below and check that you are happy with how it looks. If you want to change any of the squares around, now is the time to do it.
For this we used the Continuous Join As You Go method from the tutorials on The Patchwork Heart blog. Following this method join all your squares together using your 9th colour.
Now you are ready to add the border. For this we used Linen Stitch. There are lots of tutorials for Linen Stitch on the internet as well as videos on You Tube. We learnt using the tutorial on the Attic 24 blog. There are lots of pictures on there if you get stuck. We did one round of each of our 8 main colours in the following order….
Duck Egg
Storm Blue
Sage
Pale Rose
Grape
Parma Violet
Buttermilk
Vintage Peach
And finally we did a last scalloped edging row in Mushroom.