Grannies 147 and 148; Welcome Trinidad & Tobago, and Thailand; Mr. Bernard

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Fisherman's Ring Square by Priscilla Hewitt.  I can imagine doing a bedspread out of this pattern.  It's beautiful.

















Carousel Square by Priscilla Hewitt.















Priscilla's website:  http://priscillascrochet.net/freepatterns.html

  Mr. Bernard looking all handsome.  I give him a treat after I've been taking pictures of him...I want him to cooperate and he's getting better every time.











Welcome, Thailand and Trinidad and Tobago!  It's an exotic day.

Granny 145 and 146; Edmonds Beach; welcome Ecuador and Slovakia!

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This square is called the Spring Breeze Afghan Square and is by Priscilla Hewitt.

Priscilla's Patterns, what a find!  So many beautiful designs...I will certainly be back.  Very nice designs, just a tad challenging which is how I like it these days.

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This square is the Crocodile Stitch Afghan Block by Joyce Lewis.  I found it HERE on Ravelry.com.  I'm not happy with this photo, really, because I had to use the flash and to me, it flattened all the features out.  Go to the website and look at the ones there, and you will see what I mean.  I'm going to retake it the minute we have some sun around here...maybe Friday or Saturday?  It really is a lovely square and I look forward to more color combinations.

We did run down to the beach for a while during a break in the rain.

I love how this tree is keeping clam on such a cloudy day.  We had a low tide a few days ago, and I imagine these shells found their way to this tree on that day.

I had planned to meet my friend Liz down there for the low tide, but unfortunately that is the day I was having dental anguish.  Darn it all.  False teeth are starting to sound better and better...never thought I would hear myself say that!

And a welcome to Ecuador and Slovakia, my two newest country/visitors!

Granny 143, 144; Edmonds Beach

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The design of the light green and first row of green on 143 are from '300 Crochet Blocks'.  The outer two rounds are free crocheted.  I'm particularly pleased with the overall look of this square!

So far, the blocks in this book are too small to use without adding extra rows.  Lots of room for getting inventive :)











For some reason, the fact that I tend to twist the design sometimes as I crochet is extremely obvious in this square.  I tried to straighten it out for the picture, but it wasn't working.  It will need full on blocking to get my directional twist out of it.

The interior of the square up until the navy blue row are from 300 Crochet Blocks.  The outer two rows are free crocheted.

It was a slightly hazy day, but yesterday evening on the beach in Edmonds WA was a wonderful way to close out the day.

I just love Ramona's hand ((((love))))

Granny 142; Sunday Snippets

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The orange interior of this block comes from '300 Classic Blocks for Crochet Projects', and it is #6 I think.  Many (if not most) of the blocks in this book are not the traditional square, and are more like motif's instead.  The outside of the square I just free crocheted in order to make it into a square.

I'm thinking I'll be working in this book for awhile, because there are 300!  I've had a bit of an aversion up to now, because all of blocks are done in an ecru cord of some sort.  I am liking it more now, because the motifs are there, but the color is completely up to me, as is the eventual finishing of the block.  Takes longer to get done, though, because I have to 'think' about it :)  Time to put the brain to more use.

As for some Sunday Snippets:

Meatball Soup

Granny 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141; Welcome Iraq and Romania; It's Caturday :)

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Both Romania and Iraq visited this blog during the last 24 hours.  Welcome to both countries!

All six blocks today are the same pattern, which is from 200 Crochet Blocks.

I have gotten several variegated yarns of late, and wanted to see how they work up.  Most of these yarns are Bernat, and are acrylic yarns.The yarn was soft and wonderful, and I'd say the results vary wildly.  Interesting though!  I really like 136, 139 and 140.  141 is Deborah Norville 'Parrot', not so much.  Maybe Jimmy Buffet would like it :)

The yarn in #137 is cotton yarn from Universal Yarn.  This is, hands down, the nicest cotton I have ever worked with.  I love the color combination, which perhaps is better suited for a larger project.  I only had one skein.  The color is no longer available.  Wah!  However, I bought it at So Much Yarn in Seattle (I think I remember that at least) and hopefully they still have some.  They had a great selection of cotton yarns.  Even though they give short shrift to the crocheter and tried to talk me into coming back to take knitting lessons, I'll be back if for no other reason than that cotton!

**** Just visited the So Much Yarn website and guess what?  The Friday Knitting group is now the

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Friday Knit and Crochet group.  Must have heard me thinking!****

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Since it is Caturday today, here are a couple of photos of Mr. Bernard being sweetly cute.  He's a big hunk of male kitty, so  I don't let him hear me say that!

He considers it his duty to 'help' me with my crochet projects.  He has pretty much given up trying to eat the yarn, thankfully.  This will be a great savings on the vet bills, so way to go, Mr. Bernard.

Caturday was dreamed up by http://omlair.blogspot.com/.  Drop on by, link up, and post photos of your own kitty :)

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, y'all!

Grannies 133, 134, 135; Welcome Taiwan and Latvia!

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Variations on a theme:  Three different color combinations, same design.  I have some new variegated yarns and wanted to see how they work up.  I know a lot of people don't care for variegated yarns, but I love them, for some reason.

Love it in #132.  Very good, would use it in a granny again.









Don't think it really works in #133.  The color changes allow too much color in one area, makes it look blocky and off.  Nice color combination though, and I would love to see it in a scarf.















By the time I took this picture I had next to no light left, so I had to use the flash.  It left this looking over exposed, however, the yarn really is this bright, and I really do like it.

And I had one more, but do you think I can find that square now?  Oh no.  I think I made that one while I was waiting for Ramona today, it is probably still out there.  And tomorrow is soon enough :).

There will be more, although I might switch to another square.  Bernat yarns were on sale, you see....

And welcome, welcome to Taiwan and Latvia, today's first time visitors!  My grandmother was either Lithuanian or Latvian, no one is quite sure.  I can claim no ancestral relationship with Taiwan, however, but am glad to see it here just the same.  73 different countries have visited this blog, and I really do wish I had thought of spotlighting some of them before now.  

Grannies 128, 129, 130, 131, 132; Welcome Cuba and Egypt~

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Back in the saddle again!  It's hard to crochet when you have a two day migraine, so severe...and it turns out it was a tooth going bad, instead.

Can I afford a root canal?  Of course not!  On antibiotics and pain meds, while I figure out what I'm going to do about it.  Good day to shake the  money tree, eh?

I think all five of these are from 200 Crochet Blocks...one of them might be from somewhere else and if so, it will be from 99 Granny Squares.

Anyhow, I'm really liking the way the color combinations turned out.  I sure love those rich, saturated colors!

Welcome to Cuba and Egypt!  The latest two new countries to visit this blog.  I was particularly surprised to see Cuba appear.  Apparently the embargo can't stop computer access. However, I noticed that while Feedjit reported the presence of a Cuban visitor, the Flags of the World tracker thing ignored it like it never happened.

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