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@ddbkultur
Grüsse aus dem Kulturerbezentrum Maison Rurale de l'Outre Foret im Nordelsass!#bloomscrolling #florespondence #culturalHeritage #crochet #häkeln #grannies #grannysquare
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@ddbkultur
Grüsse aus dem Kulturerbezentrum Maison Rurale de l'Outre Foret im Nordelsass!#bloomscrolling #florespondence #culturalHeritage #crochet #häkeln #grannies #grannysquare
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@ddbkultur
Grüsse aus dem Kulturerbezentrum Maison Rurale de l'Outre Foret im Nordelsass!#bloomscrolling #florespondence #culturalHeritage #crochet #häkeln #grannies #grannysquare
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@ddbkultur
Grüsse aus dem Kulturerbezentrum Maison Rurale de l'Outre Foret im Nordelsass!#bloomscrolling #florespondence #culturalHeritage #crochet #häkeln #grannies #grannysquare
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@ddbkultur
Grüsse aus dem Kulturerbezentrum Maison Rurale de l'Outre Foret im Nordelsass!#bloomscrolling #florespondence #culturalHeritage #crochet #häkeln #grannies #grannysquare
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Couverture au crochet, 700 grannies !
#crochet #uncinetto #crochethooks #GrannySquare -
Couverture au crochet, 700 grannies !
#crochet #uncinetto #crochethooks #GrannySquare -
Couverture au crochet, 700 grannies !
#crochet #uncinetto #crochethooks #GrannySquare -
Couverture au crochet, 700 grannies !
#crochet #uncinetto #crochethooks #GrannySquare -
Couverture au crochet, 700 grannies !
#crochet #uncinetto #crochethooks #GrannySquare -
I just finished my Winter Granny Square Scarf today ❄️!
It’s about 2,2 metres long and made of scrap yarn 🧶.
#JaanaCrochets #JaanaVirkkaa #crochet #grannysquare #grannysquarescarf #winter #winterscarf #crochetscarf #scrapyarn #crochetersoftheworld #handmade #virkkaus #isoäidinneliö #isoäidinneliökaulahuivi #talvi #virkattuhuivi #käsityö #jämälankaprojekti -
Crocheted a #grannystripe #buckethat with a wider brim.
#JaanaCrochets #JaanaVirkkaa #crochet #crochetbuckethat #summercrochet #grannysquare #crochethat #handmade #lovetocrochet #crochetlove #crochetersoftheworld #virkkaus #virkattu #kalastajanhattu #virkattukalastajanhattu #kesä #kesävirkkausta #isoäidinraita #isoäidinneliö #käsintehty #rakastanvirkkausta #virkkausrakkaus #virkkaaja
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Encore 200 grannies à crocheter...on va y arriver
#crochet #crochetaddict #GrannySquare #granny #uncinetto #crochethook #crochetblanket -
Je commence une couverture
avec des grannies. Modèle du livre "fleurs sauvages au crochet" de Virpi Marjaana Siira.
#crochet #crochetblanket #GrannySquare #grannies #granny #uncinetto #uncinettocreativo -
Economical Druthers
A local volunteer community encourages people to donate knitted or crocheted squares that can be made into blankets. Those blankets are then given to people who need them, often to people in shelters and temporary housing.
As someone who likes to crochet while watching TV, I saw this as a beneficial use of both my time and miscellaneous leftover yarn. Accordingly, last winter I donated a couple of blankets I had made and I also put together squares that others had made.
This winter I happened upon some very inexpensive yarn at a thrift store and used it to make squares that I hoped would one day become a blanket. I also used up my remaining supply of leftover yarn and these together created 68 squares.
As I looked at the instructions I had received from the volunteer group, I realized I didn’t have enough squares for a queen-size blanket which was their preference. A queen size requires 90 eight-inch squares and a twin size requires 54. When I first asked about this, my assumption was that they would need more twin-size blankets but it seems that there are more families in need than single individuals. So, the polite suggestion was that the larger blanket would be of more use.
My dilemma, then, was what to do with my inadequate supply of squares. Should I make more squares or donate what I had? I decided to donate what I had, but when I got to the volunteer centre I was told that they no longer accepted donations of squares! They already had lots of squares in storage and, instead, needed volunteers to put squares together. I said I would be happy to do that and they said they would be in touch when they had taken a batch out of the storage facility. They also said that they no longer had a supply of yarn that they could give me; the yarn fund had been exhausted.
My 68 squares, which were not quite enough for a blanket, still needed additional squares so I visited a couple of local thrift stores to see if they had any yarn I could use to finish the project. Unfortunately, I was surprised to find that the price of the donated skeins was quite high. It was too high to be a bargain and almost as much as I would pay for yarn on sale at a local department store. I was torn. I wanted to finish the blanket and I wanted to support the thrift store, but I didn’t want to pay so much for miscellaneous yarn. I would rather pay a little more and choose the texture, weight, and colour than I preferred.
I went online to find out the sale prices for yarn at the local craft stores and I also checked out Amazon. My preference is to shop local when possible, but when you are trying to put together a blanket out of leftover yarn, you lean towards the least expensive option. I ended up ordering from Amazon, even though I would much rather have bought from a local charity or craft store.
Sometimes, your druthers are just not economical.
#blanket #blankets #charity #community #crochet #druthers #economical #grannySquare #knitting #thriftStore #volunteer #yarn
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I suppose it could almost be considered a crime that my lovely gran taught me how to #crochet before I had outgrown diapers, but yet I never aspired a #GrannySquare project before. So I decided to put an end to this shame! Today my #yarn order from #hobbii arrived and so #stardustmelodies here I come!
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A few weeks ago, just before we had a heavy snowfall, I visited Volunteer Nanaimo to drop off a couple of blankets I had crocheted. I had been wondering where to donate them and through a Google search found this organization that, among many other things, donates blankets to community members who need them.
When I was there, I mentioned that their website indicated that they collect knitted or crocheted squares and asked if I could contribute. The woman I was talking to said that they currently had an embarrassment of riches in the form of a large supply of squares. What they needed, she said, was someone who could put them together. “Oh,” I said confidently. “I can do that,” even though this was not something I had ever done before. I figured it was probably within my capabilities, especially with the help of YouTube videos.
Accordingly, I was given a big bag of knitted squares and a couple of balls of yarn. The timing was perfect because the next day the snow fell and I was housebound for about ten days. Instead of just watching bad television, I was able to watch bad television and put together a blanket!
After I had done that, and after the roads were clear, I took the blanket to Volunteer Nanaimo where they were very grateful. I mentioned that I had some leftover squares and, if they had some more, I could make another blanket. Sure enough, after a quick trip to a back room, they provided me with another supply of squares. These were more diverse than the previous set because the sizes were not all the prescribed 8″ x 8″, and many were made from multiple colours of yarn. They were also of varying yarn weights, so the task of piecing them together would be a little more challenging than the previous effort.
Fortunately, this is my kind of puzzle. I made good use of the bed in my guest room in laying out the squares to create the required size of blanket. Volunteer Nanaimo preferred something to fit a twin bed and asked for a blanket six squares by nine squares, so that is what I put together. Some squares were a little smaller and some a little more than eight inches, but knitting is stretchable enough that I was able to use most of them. Only one had to be discarded.
I thought it would be fun to use up all the multicoloured squares and include the single-colour squares only to make up the necessary size. Once I saw the mixture of colours and yarns, I decided to add to the variety by turning some squares sideways. Instead of all the knitted rows being aligned, some went one way and some went another. After a bit of rearranging, I realized although there would never be a perfect layout, I could be content with a sort of balanced melange.
As I was putting this together, it occurred to me that this was a very appropriate solution, under the circumstances. The squares had been made by a number of knitters who were not known to me and probably not known to each other, either. They were all using leftover yarn from a variety of different projects, and the squares they had created reflected both the colours of their work and the type of yarn they worked with. Some were probably related to seasonal projects, some I could tell were originally for sturdy things like slippers, and some were for finer items such as shawls or baby clothes.
It pleases me to think that all these miscellaneous balls of surplus yarn came together through the kindness of strangers to create blankets for neighbours they will probably never meet. There is something profound in that.
https://snowbirdofparadise.com/2024/01/27/blanketed-in-snow-and-squares/
#blanket #blankets #charity #community #crochet #diversity #grannySquare #knitting #multicoloured #neighbours #squares #VolunteerNanaimo #volunteers #yarn
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Yesterday I had the day off work (had to use up my annual leave for the year) so I made myself this scarf! I was surprised that I finished it in one day, but pleasantly so.
As its now the festive period, there's 50% off everything on my Etsy shop - edit: link https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/cedigcraft
#crochet #handmade #yarn #gifts #Christmas #fiftypercentoff #halfprice #vintage #retro #cottagecore #grannysquare
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Wir haben uns dem Wetter gestellt und endlich mal ein paar schöne Tragefotos gemacht
Nachdem wir fertig waren lies natürlich auch der Wind nach und der Regen hatte auch fertig 😂
#knitting #jackets #sweatshirts #handmadewithlove #motherdaughterlove #familywork #shirt #handgestrickt #bunt #pummelfee #imkreisgestrickt #grannysquare #strickenmachtglücklich #stricken #strickenimquadrat #herbst #stashabbau2023 #sockenwolle4fädig #sauerland #menden #strickliebe #strickdesign #unikat
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This is my blanket. There are no others like it, and this one is mine.
My blanket is my best friend. It is my life. I must treasure it as I must treasure my life.
Without me, my blanket is useless. Without my blanket I am useless…
Sceptics of Mastodon, please note the absence of cat on this blanket. I WILL BE VICTORIOUS. #protecttheblanket #makersofMastodon #crochet #grannysquare #grannysquareblanket #catsofmastodon #caturday
