u/undeniablefruit

Never in my life have I seen anything better on the evil bezos app than this review. This chicken is amazing

I tagged this as "repairing a crochet item" because I was looking for some help repairing my baby blanket, but wanted to update you all as well!

I finally finished my first granny square! It's my first ever finished piece. I began crocheting again after not doing it for probably over a decade now. The last thing I made was a sc rectangle for my rats. They love to destroy things to burrow so it wasn't a serious piece. My gram passed in January and I picked up crochet again to keep her spirit alive. She crocheted all the way up until the last two weeks of her life, because she quite literally couldn't, as she was intubated. She made me my first ever baby blanket, pic on slide 3 ❤️

Anyway, I made this for my cat, because I needed practice, and he doesn't care if I messed up. He's very supportive.

Here are some things that I learned:

1. Stitch markers are essential, at least for the first few rows. I clearly did not use one.

2. Turning your work is also essential. I need to find a video of someone explaining it like I'm five years old. This will be much easier with color changes. I used multicolor yarn for this project.

3. MULTICOLOR YARN IS YOUR ENEMY for granny squares. They look okay until they don't, and then they just look confusing. I will be using different colors of yarn for my next one.

4. I need to pay attention much more, especially early on. Noticing mistakes early into things will make frogging much less stressful and painful.

5. I need to pay close attention to how many dc's I'm doing in each space. There are some with two, some with 4, most with three... But my corners are inconsistent too. At some point I forgot that it was 3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc, and I was just doing 3 dc and then something I don't even remember doing lol. I have to pay much more attention. It got much better toward the end.

6. I think a sc border will look much nicer and give me sharper corners.

7. I don't need to be so hard on myself when something doesn't look perfect.

I'm pretty proud of what I've got here, even though it's definitely far from perfect. I can't wait to do my next one. I will continue to practice with different colored yarns. I plan to make a big blanket for my bed with some rather pricey yarn I bought to motivate me to practice.

P.S. - Is there a way I can fix the middle of my baby blanket? Thanks in advance!

P.P.S. - Thank you all so much for your help a couple of weeks back! I really appreciated all of the comments! :-)

EDIT: thank you all very much for your replies! I've decided to just go around like I'm supposed to and it's worked itself out in just another two rows, thankfully. It's not noticeable to my untrained eye, and my cat won't know the difference (this is for him), so I'm sticking with it, and I'll be sure to pay more attention next time. Thank you all again so much! I'm trying to do my gramma proud by carrying on her tradition of crochet :-)

Pic 1 is the corner I'm struggline with, the rest are the corners I'm liking the looks of. The last pic is where I left off last night. Note the corners.

My name last night may as well have been butter, because I was on a *ROLL* doing this granny square. However, I woke up today, excited to do more, and I somehow completely forgot how I was doing my corners. This is my actual first legitimate project that's not just practice. I went to bed feeling so good because my corners were sharp and not rounded, but I noticed that I had been doing it differently/not at all up until a certain point. They ended up getting really good, but now I'm at my first corner of the day, and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. It looks like I was doing just 3 dc in the corners for the last completed ones (you can see there are some where I've done 6 further into the square if you look closely), but I don't know what the heck I was doing after that. Chain 1 then 3 more dc into the same hole? No. Chain 3 then single crochet in the third chain next to it? I have no idea. I tried doing a set of 6 dc (3 dc, ch1, 3 dc) in the one I'm working right now and it just looked swollen and weird and not very sharp like the others. I continued on with my row thinking it'd straighten out but it still like looked weird. I've tried like 4 different times and have frogged each time.

I'm hoping someone here has an experienced enough eye to understand what I have been doing to get the straight corners on my last round or two.

[This](https://youtu.be/P8e-9k3JsEI?si=A-t53GCh\_YJ-2OU7) is the tutorial I've been using, but somewhere along the way, I guess I just began improvising because when I do it this way, it looks bulged.

Please help!

Thanks in advance!

Hello again! I posted a month or two ago about making a granny square that turned into a circle. I sort of kept just messing with it and it turned into a weird extra long beanie lol. Other than not counting stitches - how does this look?

Just trying to get some basics down before I move onto hopefully a much better granny square. I plan to use stitch markers when I do my next one, which will just be double crochet.

What do you think of this? Are my stitches okay? I didn't watch a tutorial or anything so I honestly don't know if this is a single crochet or something else.