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  1. Posted 9 months ago

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    Help needed - granny square blanket

    Started 9 months ago · Last post 9 months ago · Displaying all 11 Post
    I'm looking for some web trawling help - I just can't find what I want!
    I've crocheted my granny squares and now want to join them with a black border.
    Even the 'join as you go' methods I've found just join 2 squares at a time (and I need to eliminate as much sewing in of ends as possible!)
  2. Posted 9 months ago
    you could try something like this with needle and thread

    http://woolnhook.blogspot.com/2011/08/invisible-seam-reverse-mattress-stitch.html

    I'd sew squares together to get rows. Then sew rows together


    Or try this using your crochet hook

    http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/joining-granny-sqaures.html

    I kinda like the look of this last links method. I hate having to try and thread yarn through a needle. I even have the huge size ones made for yarn, I still hate it so I like that this one doesn't use a needle and thread. Also it looks like it would work up quickly.
  3. Posted 9 months ago
    I'm about to do the same as you Julie, I have a granny square blanket that will need stitched together very soon. I have intended on doing the join as you go method but I felt it looked messy. I think I'll end up crocheting them together with slip stitch or single crochet.
  4. Posted 9 months ago
    I've used the attic24 tute for crocheting together the squares on a cushion and this leaves a ridge (fine on the cushion as it's on the inside)
    I have small one colour squares and I want them to have a black border.
    As I said - just trying to eliminate all those ends!
  5. Posted 9 months ago
    How did you get on with the sewing-up Julie? Can we have a pic (or link to the project) when its finished?
  6. Posted 9 months ago
    Oops! Got distracted by some half price wool and made some scarves and fingerless mitts for xmas pressies!
    (not that I let myself avoid doing something difficult by doing an easy task instead!)
  7. Posted 9 months ago
    Gotta love discounted wool! Bargin!
  8. Posted 9 months ago · Edited 9 months ago
    Finally made a start (sorry about the pictures - I only have a really old phone camera {seriously I got laughed at in the phone shop the other day!)
    Here's the cushion cover I made using the Attic 24 joining method
    [http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/joining-granny-sqaures.html]
    Front: DSC00397
    Back: DSC00398
    And the newest blanket 'joining as I go'
    DSC00399
    Here's the link to the tute I used :
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/90733686@N00/3470248273/in/set-72157617721257414/

    I do like the 'tightness' of the Attic24 method on the cushion, but joining as you go is working for me on this blanket.
  9. Posted 9 months ago
    I'm gonna start joining mine soon, I think I'm gonna use the attic 24 method.
  10. Posted 9 months ago
    The more I do of this blanket the more I like it!
    As I've done a pile (not nearly enough!) of the coloured centres and am adding the black border as I go it's really coming together easily. I can just grab a centre and border it and join it.

    Also trying to weave in the ends in small batches as I go so I don't have that nightmare at the end!
  11. Posted 9 months ago
    I'd either uses a large yarn needle and whip stitch them together or I'd actually use a single crochet stitch or a slip stitch to join them together (at the back)

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