Summer 2012 Granny "Square" Swap (sign ups closed) - Page 33

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Sunny~ Yeppers we are pretty busy!!!!  Things are heating up as we move forward getting closer to opening and then things will be crazy. It's so nice our friends came in town so we have an excuse for a stay-cation squeezed in with a little work. We went to 6 Flags yesterday afternoon after DH met w/ the electricians in the am. Love it, but feeling a little beat up today.  I know you are super busy getting your breeding coops all set up and getting settled in your new place.

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Gotta run for now. I think we are going to St. Louis w/ our friends for the afternoon.

I hope everyone has a fantastic day!!!  

Back from my trip to the Central Valley.  Had a good visit with my daughter and granddaughter and also my other daughter, her husband and two boys and two other grandsons.  Wow! was it hectic but fun.  Came home to 119 yesterday but it was only 102 in Visalia.  It was 92 when I woke this morning but it's cloudy, therefore humid as there is a system that might bring us some thunderstorms.  We don't usually get them but one never knows here.  My granddaughter flies back to GA tomorrow and my daughter back to WA to get ready for their move to CA.  They have to be out of their house by the 20th of July and will move to Apple Valley, CA from there.  It's about 80 miles from me so it's close enough for me to visit for the day.

I have over 10 blocks crocheted in 12" and 6" and one in a 6x12".  They're coming along.  I'll take photos in a day or so whenever I get caught up around here. I want to look for some patterns I can use for the 6x12 blocks.

 I worried about my old dog and the heat so at the last minute conferred with my neighbor and agreed for me to leave the dog in the house where it's cool and she'd come down several times a day and let her out to go to the bathroom.  Bless her!  It's great to have neighbors like that.  Jada didn't have any accidents in the house either.  The chickens made it just fine.  I'm wetting down places where they can lay in the wet ground to stay cooler and they seem to like it.

Welcome newcomers.  The more the merrier.

Tomorrow is my day to be in the Central Valley. I'm driving up the valley to Mt. Shasta & will be there a month. I'm taking lav bluee and my trusty G hook. Twelve 6" squares are done. I think that's a set, 12 people excluding me. Two 12" squares are done. I hope to get the other ten done while at Shasta. I'm not taking a rectangle pattern with me. If the squares get done and I'm ready to start rectangles, I'll try to get a pattern there. I might have to go to Redding to do that. Otherwise, would it be weird to make regular rectangles, like the first third of a scarf, maybe with borders around them?

I finished this one up at work today and wanted to get it posted. Hopefully I'll have time this weekend to post a bit more!

 That square is gorgeous BTownchickmom! Love the pattern! I'm working on mine tonight, gonna be hot and humid tomorrow so won't crochet much! Have a great night ladies!

Cathy

I am posting this so I can find this thread again while I consider if I have time for this, sounds like fun.  I used to be an avid crocheter, but haven't crocheted anything in a while.

I do have a question or two.  I skimed through all the pages and saw where you can make more then one set.  If you make more then one set do you need to sign up more then one time so you get the extras back??? (hope question made sense)

Do you do this regularly?  Is there ever a swap where you can use up stash colors you already have?

Ok, so I guess I need a little clarification. Its probably plain as day but the humidity is getting to me.... Do we make one of each size for each person in the swap? Which would be 3 (1 of each size) to each participant? I just want to get it right before I really get going here. Thanks for any info!

~Cathy

I see we have some new swappers... welcome!  It took awhile but I finally caught up on all the posts. The squares you all have done are beautiful!  Weather here in Tennessee has been as horrid as you all have had... we broke heat records multiply times in a week.  We finally got some rain and boy has that been a relief!

I haven't had time to work on my squares for this swap as I have been helping with some donation squares on a few facebook pages.  There is one that makes memory blankets for parents that have lost a child, one makes cuddle blankets for small children fighting devastating diseases and one the makes blanket for people that are fighting cancer.  They post for volunteers until they get the requested number of squares and also have volunteers to assemble them and get them to the owners.  So... I've made a pair of squares for several different blankets and am also a volunteer for the assembly of one.

I also have another swap that is due at the end of the month that I have been working on those squares.  We are doing an NFL swap.  Everyone has a team (or two if they chose) and are doing squares in that teams colors.  I am working on some pretty purple and gold that will represent the Minnesota Vikings.  We are all making 32 squares and will mail 31 and get 1 back for each team. 

At the last moment a friend also asked that I join another swap that is 4 inch squares that will make 2 pillows.  As soon as I committed to that, I got an order form a coworker for a baby blanket for her soon to be brand new great-nephew.  Phew! Have I ever been a crocheting fiend!

Still traveling every other or every two weeks to Baltimore with my job and will be going the week after next.  I figure while I am there I will be able to get all my end of July deadline stuff done and then will have some time to work on these again!  I have found several patterns that I want to try.

Well, I am off... hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and I will check in again soon!