Squares & Blankets

One of the most simple things you can crochet is a peggy square (or granny square to American readers), and one of the most simple things you can do with a peggy square is make a blanket, rug or throw. It takes a lot of perseverance though! You’ll be making square after square thinking, “when will I have enough?” and realise that it will be quite a while until you really have enough to make a decent sized blanket. Or you could give up, like me, and settle for a miniature-dog sized blanket just to feel the anticipated sense of satisfaction of finishing a project...but not quite getting there.

 Now, i’m talking about making A LOT of the same sized peggy squares and joining them up. But there is another way to make a blanket, which is to work in continual rounds of one giant peggy square, like the ones below. You get a very different look, but there is no joining involved. I personally like the multiple peggy square blanket better.

  

For advanced crochet-ers, don’t feel you need to be constrained by the standard peggy square. There are so many motifs you can use in the same way, and there are some fabulous books you can get to help you out with patterns etc. I personally have used some of the square motifs in Erika Knight’s ‘Crochet Stitch Motifs – 250 to Crochet’. But I have heard, and haven’t got around to buying, of some other really good ones. If you’ve crocheted things from these books, let me know how you found it please!

  

 ‘101 Crochet Squares’ – Jean Leinhauser

 

‘200 Crochet Blocks’ – Jan Eaton