GIANT GRANNY SQUARE SHRUG.....PATTERN all in one post.

One of the easiest jackets to make..just one giant granny square folded in half and the seams sewn up leaving 6" holes for your arms to go through.

Use a spaces dyed yarn of change colour every round, perfect for those winter snuggles

Square at 400g. 32"

Got to a metre, using just under 600 grams of yarn...

sewed up the seams and tried it on....

it fits, but it's a shrug and wanted mine to be a little bigger so adding another 100+grams

JAMES C BRETT STONEWASH would be perfect for this project....

Love those 3 colours the best from the range

The end one with orange in, is the nearest to the colour I used back in 2014 is col. SW3

My favourite of the new colours is the middle one with a soft butter yellow in Col. SW2

Pink/lilac one is Col. SW5

All the shades make a fabulous granny square too

Beautiful to crochet with no splitting,a lovely twist to it and such beautiful soft colours

4mm hook

Pattern

Giant granny square worked in reverse rounds, to keep you square a perfect square with no swing to the way you are crocheting, it also makes for a reversible granny square so the roll of the neck line wont be the wrong side when you wear it.

magic circle

ROUND 1: ch2, counts as first dc, 2dc, ch2, 3dc, ch2, 3dc, ch2, 3dc, ch2, sl st to complete. tighten magic circle.

ROUND 2- 46: turn ch2, 2dc, ch2, 3dc, 3dc, ch2, 3dc, in each corner, sl st to complete.

For me 46 rows made it big enough to reach my wrist

Finished it with a Shell stitch edging 

3tr, ch3 3tr in every other sp, with sc in between the granny shells

before i added the shell edging with my favourite pin 

Camper Coat, Magic Balls and the 15Minute Rule...

The Camper Coat has grown but not a fast as it should have...3 rows of squares and about half way across the coat at the minute.

WORKROOM SORT OUT

Thanks Chris for starting me off with the sort out,  promise I am using the 15minute rule and doing a little every day but its a huge job and not going as fast as it did while you were here, thats for sure, lol. 
Every box i open i find something interesting that hasn't been complete....just so many projects i want to do and not enough hours in the day so again, its back to the 15minute rule and some more Magic Balls too. HERE to see the original post 


Lots of ends of balls to play with thats for sure...

All sorts of uses for these when you crochet especially when you do motifs and use lots ofsxall quantities to make motifs

I'm using lots in the camper coat only a couple of metres if that in each centre circle in a rainbow of colours

the grey version is using US Terms dc but the black and white tweedy look i settled on was slightly more open and i used US tr.

 join as you go in the spaces only

 a little bit quicker than joining every st.

Definitely more effort needed though to complete this Ruana/Kimono/Jacket for next winter, can you believe we are well into July already? 

and for this wearable item I'm making it sleeveless a bit like a Celtic Ruana, i've been wearing a woven black and oatmeal checked one all last winter and love it.

Simple, wide enough not to need a sleeve and goes over everything  a Ruana really should be open at the sides but mine is going to be stitched up so I suppose it could be a sort of Kimono Style, possibly.

UPDATE ON THE 15MINUTE RULE
 All those unfinished project I have?
Could 'The 15 Minute Rule'
see a project or two finished in a year?...YES, I think it could.

15 MINUTE RULE
PERSONAL CHALLENGE 2016
 Using 'The 15 Minute Rule' complete as many unfinished projects as possible in 2016

I'm sure you all have unfinished projects lurking somewhere and would like to see them completed?

By doing just 15minutes a day on a project we could all see a few finished?