Day 154: Cool 2B Square

Today’s square: Smooth Fox’s Cool 2B Square
Size: 6 inch
Pattern By: Donna Mason-Svara (SmoothFox)
Hook: H
Yarn: mystery yarn mint, Mainstays Pink, Dawn Sayelle bluebell, Caron Simply Soft Baby Bright.
Pattern from: Ravelry

Notes: The pattern is fairly easy with some interesting touches. She uses one of those HDC joins in the corner and her instruction video finally explains to me what that kind of join does. It sets you in the middle of the corner instead of the edge. But I still don’t care for them. I used regular joins everywhere except the pink rounds.

This square is the June 6inch square for the 2012 Block A Month CAL on Ravelry.

 

Day 153: Grannie’s Red Flower

Today’s square: Grannie’s Red Flower
Size: 6 inch
Pattern By: Melanie Stiles
Hook: H
Yarn: Caron Simply Soft Baby Brights, Red Heart Super Saver Lt. Coral.
Pattern from: Ravelry

Notes: Ok. My flower isn’t red. But it’s a fairly simple pattern to do once I got over the fact that the photo shown on the pattern page isn’t stitched exactly like the pattern is written. I went down a hook size and still ended up right at 6 inches. It really needs a round of SC to stabilize it a bit.

 

Day 152: Ship’s Wheel

Today’s square: Ship’s Wheel
Size: 6 inch
Pattern By: Janie Herrin
Hook: H
Yarn: Mainstays Pink, mystery yarn mint green.
Pattern from: Ravelry

Notes: A simple pattern from the 50 Fabulous Crochet Blocks book. I’m still clumsy with my FP stitches, so it looks a little wavy in that area. Practice makes perfect I guess!

 

Day 151: Sun Daze 6 inch

Today’s square: Sun Daze
Size: 6 inch
Pattern By: Dayna Audirsch
Hook: H
Yarn: Caron Simply Soft Baby Brights, Mainstays pink.
Pattern from: Ravelry

Notes: This is the center part of the Sun Daze pattern. I worked Row 5, then for row six I did HDC in every DC around.

 

Day 150: Sun Daze

Today’s square: Sun Daze
Size: 12 inch
Pattern By: Dayna Audirsch
Hook: H
Yarn: mystery yarn Rose.
Pattern from: Ravelry

Notes: A quick and easy pattern. I left off round 11 because I didn’t want two rows of loops together. I finished off with an additional round of HDC and a round of SC. I’m going to make a 6 inch version of this for the pastel project.

 

Day 149: Star

Today’s square: Star
Size: 12 inch
Pattern By: I made it up
Hook: H
Yarn: mystery yarn Rose.

Notes: I just made this up as I went along. It’s so simple I don’t know if I should bother to write out the pattern for it. I started looking for filet type patterns that were worked in the round like a granny square and there aren’t many. I guess it’s usually worked back and forth. I’m pondering some simple patterns I could come up with for “in the round” squares.

 

Day 148: Diamonds Are Forever

Today’s square: Diamonds are Forever
Size: 12 inch
Pattern By: Melissa Dalton
Hook: H
Yarn: Caron Wintuk Peach.
Pattern from: Ravelry

Notes: Another filet crochet pattern. I think the pattern actually has a mistake in it starting at round 5. It leaves two stitches unaccounted for. So at that point I ditched the pattern and continued with the pattern logically. I needed to add 2 rows of DC and one of SC to make it 12 inches, so I added the circle detail to even it out some.

 

Day 147: Dragonfly Air

Today’s square: Dragonfly Air
Size: 12 inch
Pattern By: Aurora Suominen
Hook: H
Yarn: Red Heart Super Saver Light Coral.
Pattern from: Ravelry

Notes: After doing the pinwheel square, this one seemed like a good one to do. I’m kind of liking this “filet” crochet style–a strategic use of skipped stitches to make a pattern. I might be able to come up with some of my own patterns for this!

 

Day 146: Easy Eights

Today’s square: Easy Eights
Size: 12 inch
Pattern By: Me
Hook: H
Yarn: Red Heart Super Saver Cherry Cola and Bronze, mystery yarns light sage and green.
Pattern from: I just made it up

Notes: This is the second round of my square pattern testing. The testers from the last round were bumping their squares up to 12 inches so I extended the pattern allowing for 10 and 12 inch sizes as well. If you’d like to try out this pattern as a tester, come join in the fun at our Ravelry Group. Once the test period is over, one person will be drawn at random to win a ball of yarn!

 

Day 145: Pinwheel Square

Today’s square: Pinwheel Square
Size: 12 inch
Pattern By: Dayna Audirsch
Hook: H
Yarn: Red Heart Super Saver Light Coral.
Pattern from: Ravelry

Notes: This is a quick and fairly simple square. The first round after the circle has one of those odd joins where you use an HDC instead of the usual slip stitch. I have trouble with that. I’m not sure what the advantage of that kind of join is. Anyone know?