As I was scrolling on my Pinterest board for ideas this week I came across this post: 

I then found this Youtube video to give me a tutorial which is shown below. 

Starting this granny square felt fairly standard. I had to do 15 double crochets in a magic loop. However, I did learn something new right after I made these stitches. When I had to change the colour of yarn I learned that you could start with a double crochet instead of chaining 3 onto the work piece. My mind was blown…literally. I can’t believe nobody does this/it isn’t that popular. I think that my squares look so much better and the stitches look more cohesive. 

These are the two squares I made this week: 

I thought I was going to struggle with this square a little bit but I actually didn’t. The Youtube video was a great learning piece for me because it taught me with a visual. I learn best by doing things alongside someone (or alongside a video) because I can use it as a reference to what I am working on and what is in front of me. 

I made the one on the left first. I did notice towards the end on the boarder that you could still see a little bit of the green stitches from the row before. So with the second square I did I used the same yarn size which seemed to help that issue. The reason it happened in the first square is because when I bought the yarn for this project I thought I bought only 4mm yarn but turns out the green and blue yarn were both 4.5mm. It doesn’t make that huge of a difference so I just stuck with it.

Another thing I noticed was that the square was going to be too big if I added another row which the video did call for. So instead I stopped on the second last row so it would still fit around my steering wheel with not a ton of extra slack.

The Youtube video also went step by step, stitch by stitch. I know this would be super helpful for me if I was a complete beginner. I was getting a little annoyed because she was going through each stitch but that’s because I like to count in my head and move at my own pace as much as I possibly can. 

Something that I seen a couple weeks ago was something called blocking. This basically stretches your granny square into a more perfect square so everything just looks neater. I simply followed what this website said and I did this with all of the squares I made over the past few weeks so we will see how they turn out next week!

Overall I would recommend this video to someone learning how to crochet. It was easy to follow along and you only need to know how to do one stitch.