Last year's big project: the Granny Square Blanket

Last winter was a slow winter for crocheting in Georgia.  It never got really cold, so other than a few hats I made for late-season Georgia Tech football games, I didn't make as many things as I did the previous winter when it snowed a couple times.  So I spent most of my time focusing on a granny square blanket, something I'd tried to make the previous year but always spent so much time making hats and cowls that I didn't have time to work on it.

So I used Lion Brand's Eight Color Throw and a variety of different brands of yarn- mostly Red Heart's Super Saver and Hobby Lobby's I Love This Yarn. And this is the finished product:

It was a fun project for working on while watching TV because I could work on a square or two at a time.  It's a smaller lap-sized blanket but I love it to death.  It's gotten some wear and tear as I've been carrying it around from one room to another, and I don't think I had the best technique for stitching the squares together, but it was a good first experience and on the rare occasion that we had people over they were always impressed that I had made it.

It was also my first experience with blocking, another thing I'm not sure we really did right.  But I'm sure I'll only get better with experience.  I'm working on another blanket now (which will get its own post in due time) so I've got a little more know-how this time around when it comes time to finish it up, so I think it'll go a lot better.

first post!

Crochet season is starting up again, despite the fact that it's still in the 80s here in Gerogia.  So I decided that this year I was going to take it a little more seriously since I'm still in that post-graduation state that so many of my fellow liberal arts majors are in, which some people might call "unemployment".  But it's giving me a chance to maybe focus on my crocheting and try a few new things this winter and I decided to document it!

I've only really had one go at serious blogging before- it was a soccer blog that I eventually lost the time to update because of school stuff.  So I'm gonna see how this goes and try to have fairly regular updates of what I'm up to in life and in crocheting.

I chose Cranberry Crochet because I like alliteration as much as I like crocheting and I like cranberry juice.  And alcoholic drinks with cranberry in them (don't worry, I'm of age, it's okay).  So Cranberry Crochet was born.

Insert cool sign off line here (I thought something organic would happen like it did for Veronica Corningstone in Anchorman, but maybe by the next time I post I'll have something?),

Rebecca