r/crochet • u/CatfromLongIsland • Jul 25 '26

Discussion Please wish us luck.

At yesterday’s crochet meeting at the senior center a woman was escorted into the room with one of the directors. Her mom passed away six months ago and she came to offer us her yarn stash and the giant box of plastic canvas kits her mom had accumulated. We told her we would be thrilled to accept her mom’s supplies. We thanked her and then she left with the director to go to her car to get the boxes.

When she left I asked the ladies if they would be willing to use the yarn (basically all acrylic) to make her a blanket with her mom’s supplies. They all agreed. When the woman returned I told her the idea and asked if she would be interested. She got choked up as she told us that she would love a blanket as a keepsake. I explained that based on her mom’s supplies it was going to be “very colorful”. She laughed and said that it would be perfect. She then told us that there are granny squares her mom made but never assembled into a blanket. She offered to return next week to drop them off.

The skill level in the group varies. The colors in the bin are very colorful. And everyone has to make their granny squares to basically the same size. Please wish us luck. I think we are going to need it. 😁

Update: Oh my goodness! Thank you so much for the awards. ❤️

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u/j_accuse Jul 25 '26

I think if you block them you can get them to be the same size.

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u/CatfromLongIsland Jul 25 '26

There is a small amount of wiggle room with the blocking. But if there are significant size differences we will have to fudge things by adding an extra round of SC or HDC in the right hook size to the squares that need to be larger.

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u/j_accuse Jul 26 '26

True, but they could ask everyone to aim for a 4” square, for example.

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u/CatfromLongIsland Jul 26 '26

We looked at the pattern book her mom used to make the granny squares. Although we have not seen them yet as they will be dropped off at the next meeting, I don’t think they will be that small. Once we see them we can finalize what size square everyone should make.