Fall crochet block swap, sign ups until Oct 15th

[Kassaundra]

I agree, just set the boxes 20 feet away and fling the extras! LOL!! That is what one student suggested. They are excited to get these back, they have discovered the Granny this year!

I don't have good aim and throw like a girl, so one person might get all the extras that way.

 

[WriterofWords]

I did post on it that was in

Why have you not joined the winter swap? We need a few more people. Pleasssee.

 

[Bleenie]

I agree, just set the boxes 20 feet away and fling the extras! LOL!! That is what one student suggested. They are excited to get these back, they have discovered the Granny this year!

All hail the Granny!

Granny squares have to be one of the best beginner projects, they have dc, clusters, corners, ch's, you have to make a ring and color change if you want. simple project to learn many things on.

 

[Alethea]

I don't have good aim and throw like a girl, so one person might get all the extras that way.

If you remove each box as it gets a square, they'll come out evenly. Who knows? It might be a cure for OC.

 

[Alethea]

Writer-I'm glad for the students' enthusiasm and for all the ways you help them. I expect they'll love all these beautiful squares. As far as geometry goes, they might like mine: a circle within a square. That being said, what happened to the geometric shapes swap? I'd love to do something the students participate in.

 

[WriterofWords]

We are still going to do the geometrics. I'm waiting until after Rancher's sign up is over since he posted his swap before I did. Ours will have quite a long time to do it so it won't interfere with his. They have been looking at all the pictures on here and taking yarn home to work on over the break. Might be interesting lol.

Writer-I'm glad for the students' enthusiasm and for all the ways you help them. I expect they'll love all these beautiful squares. As far as geometry goes, they might like mine: a circle within a square. That being said, what happened to the geometric shapes swap? I'd love to do something the students participate in.

 

[KreativeKat]

Kreativekat, I tried to make one of your owls, I think it was looking like a bat, my husband said it looked like a bear, and I needed to make the body more oval, so I did now he says it looks like a furbie! lol lol lol

 

[KreativeKat]

Chances of getting the block with the owl are probably pretty slim... hu?

Would the maker of this little owl mind sharing the instructions? Please?

I started with this:

Magic Ring, Chain 1, 8 HDC in magic ring, join to first HDC, chain 1
Round 2: 2 HDC in each around, join to first HDC, change color (16 HDC)
Round 3: Chain 2, 2 DC in each around, join to first DC, chain 1 (32 DC)
Round 4: HDC, in next stitch: DC - TC - DC, SC in next 5, in next stitch: DC - TC - DC, HDC in next, slip stitch to join.
fasten off, weave in ends.

Turn owl over. You are going to be attaching a series of chain 3's where the brown DC's join the pink (see picture). It's best to start to the right of the ear. Be sure to work clockwise (see photo). To start, draw your hook under the bottom of the DC, chain 3. Now skip every other DC. So your pattern should look like this:

SC and chain 3, skip one, SC and chain 3, skip one, SC and chain 3, all the way around. In the end you will end up with 8 places where you have connected with SC's and 8 chain 3 spaces. slip stitch to join to the bottom of the first chain 3.

Now working inside your chain 3 spaces...
Chain 3 - 2 DC - Chain 1 - 3 DC all in same space, Chain 1, 3 DC in next space, Chain 1, *3 DC - Chain 1 - 3 DC all in same space, Chain 1, 3 DC in next space, Chain 1, *Around, slip stitch to join to the top of the first chain 3, fasten off.

I worked it a little bigger to make the moon and then made it into a square. I just eye-balled it so do not have a pattern.

Then the embellishments:
Eyes:
Magic Ring, Chain 1, 8HDC in magic ring, join to first HDC, fasten off leaving a long tail to sew on.
Sew on no larger than 1/2" black buttons in the middle for eyes.

Beak and Feet:
Sew on yellow yarn with tapestry needle. Loop the yarn through 3 times to make both the feet and beak.

 

[Lacy Blues]

I started with this:

Magic Ring, Chain 1, 8 HDC in magic ring, join to first HDC, chain 1
Round 2: 2 HDC in each around, join to first HDC, change color (16 HDC)
Round 3: Chain 2, 2 DC in each around, join to first DC, chain 1 (32 DC)
Round 4: HDC, in next stitch: DC - TC - DC, SC in next 5, in next stitch: DC - TC - DC, HDC in next, slip stitch to join.
fasten off, weave in ends.

Turn owl over. You are going to be attaching a series of chain 3's where the brown DC's join the pink (see picture). It's best to start to the right of the ear. Be sure to work clockwise (see photo). To start, draw your hook under the bottom of the DC, chain 3. Now skip every other DC. So your pattern should look like this:

SC and chain 3, skip one, SC and chain 3, skip one, SC and chain 3, all the way around. In the end you will end up with 8 places where you have connected with SC's and 8 chain 3 spaces. slip stitch to join to the bottom of the first chain 3.

Now working inside your chain 3 spaces...
Chain 3 - 2 DC - Chain 1 - 3 DC all in same space, Chain 1, 3 DC in next space, Chain 1, *3 DC - Chain 1 - 3 DC all in same space, Chain 1, 3 DC in next space, Chain 1, *Around, slip stitch to join to the top of the first chain 3, fasten off.

I worked it a little bigger to make the moon and then made it into a square. I just eye-balled it so do not have a pattern.

Then the embellishments:
Eyes:
Magic Ring, Chain 1, 8HDC in magic ring, join to first HDC, fasten off leaving a long tail to sew on.
Sew on no larger than 1/2" black buttons in the middle for eyes.

Beak and Feet:
Sew on yellow yarn with tapestry needle. Loop the yarn through 3 times to make both the feet and beak.

Oh THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

 

[BtownChickMom]

Thanks for sharing, KreativeKat!!

I started with this:

Magic Ring, Chain 1, 8 HDC in magic ring, join to first HDC, chain 1
Round 2: 2 HDC in each around, join to first HDC, change color  (16 HDC)
Round 3: Chain 2, 2 DC in each around, join to first DC, chain 1 (32 DC)
Round 4: HDC, in next stitch: DC - TC - DC, SC in next 5, in next stitch: DC - TC - DC, HDC in next, slip stitch to join.
fasten off, weave in ends.

Turn owl over. You are going to be attaching a series of chain 3's where the brown DC's join the pink (see picture). It's best to start to the right of the ear. Be sure to work clockwise (see photo). To start, draw your hook under the bottom of the DC, chain 3. Now skip every other DC. So your pattern should look like this:

SC and chain 3, skip one, SC and chain 3, skip one, SC and chain 3, all the way around. In the end you will end up with 8 places where you have connected with SC's and 8 chain 3 spaces. slip stitch to join to the bottom of the first chain 3.

Now working inside your chain 3 spaces...
Chain 3 - 2 DC - Chain 1 - 3 DC all in same space, Chain 1, 3 DC in next space, Chain 1, *3 DC - Chain 1 - 3 DC all in same space, Chain 1, 3 DC in next space, Chain 1, *Around, slip stitch to join to the top of the first chain 3, fasten off.

I worked it a little bigger to make the moon and then made it into a square.  I just eye-balled it so do not have a pattern.

Then the embellishments:
Eyes:
Magic Ring, Chain 1, 8HDC in magic ring, join to first HDC, fasten off leaving a long tail to sew on.
Sew on no larger than 1/2" black buttons in the middle for eyes.

Beak and Feet:
Sew on yellow yarn with tapestry needle. Loop the yarn through 3 times to make both the feet and beak.