The Winter granny square swap.

[Alethea]

Double isn't complicated. If someone sends in 26 squares, they get 26 back.

I can sign up for double, too. I'm still on simple squares, did a set of single crochet and am now on a set of traditional grannies. If I'd known my trip would be so late, I might have done something else, but, you know, I love traditional squares.

Alas, my large stash of blue and grey turns out to be largely wool. Once I've finished the grey and blue I have, I'll start on my stash of black (won't send them in) and see how far I get with that.

 

[Alethea]

Another way to use double sets is to divide them evenly. If someone sends in an extra set, everyone gets an extra square.

 

[Chiramc]

Left to right: Rhode Island Red, Barred Rock, Lavender Orpington, Buff Orpington, White Leghorn, Easter Egger. I'm going to do some White Silkies with fluffy white yarn and a White Crested Black Polish with a black body and a white eyelash yarn top. Should be cute.

Those are SO adorable!

 

[Bleenie]

If we didn't get a whole bunch of participants I was thinking of doing a second set as well, that way people could get 2 squares from me. All you would have to do is distribute the first set then go back and do the same with the second set. So each person would get 2 squares from me(or the people that decide to make double).

does that make sense to everyone? I will even seperate my sets(in the same box though) if it'll make it easier to distribute.

 

[WriterofWords]

See? I signed up too

Me, I already have some done I was working on to use up scraps!

 

[Alethea]

If we didn't get a whole bunch of participants I was thinking of doing a second set as well, that way people could get 2 squares from me. All you would have to do is distribute the first set then go back and do the same with the second set. So each person would get 2 squares from me(or the people that decide to make double).

does that make sense to everyone? I will even seperate my sets(in the same box though) if it'll make it easier to distribute.

It makes sense to me. I can send one set of sc squares and one set of traditional grannies.

 

[rancher hicks]

I was thinking of doing double also. I guess if I signed up as a second person, I would do two squares for each participant and receive 2 sets of squares back. Like smkchick1 and smkchick2. Should work, right?

whatever makes you happy.


I was just kidding about getting outsiders to join. I know there may be some who are not members who might find it fun to join us. Family or friends. I haven't even started.

This is supposed to be fun not stressful. I hope no one is stressing over it. That's why I said if someone was a beginner and can only do the basic granny not to avoid joining us.

Even if we don't have a lot of participants we can always keep joining swaps and eventually have lots of squares. The last squares I got are still in the box.

I never expect to get enough to do a complete afghan.

 

[rancher hicks]

I was thinking of doing double also. I guess if I signed up as a second person, I would do two squares for each participant and receive 2 sets of squares back. Like smkchick1 and smkchick2. Should work, right?

Done. Sebocat too.

 

[Alethea]

Alas. My black yarn is mostly wool, too. someone suggested Winter sunset colors. We have beautiful sunsets and sunrises here and an alpine glow which makes Mt. Shasta look like a 14,000 ft. strawberry ice cream cone. I have a lot of those colors, but they'd work as accents in multicolored squares rather than as whole squares. I guess I'll have to bite the whatsit and buy some yarn.

Have we ever had a swap using wool?

 

[baustin]

Hi everyone. I said some time ago that I would post pix. Well I just took one of 3 of my blocks. I've done 12 so far. The one that looks black is actually a dark sage, one blue and one is in dark grey. I have another green I'm going to use also.