Granny Square Crochet

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With the renewed interest in crochet, brought about because of being used in fashion statement clothing, and the long-running interest in anything antique, vintage, or nostalgic, - most easily recognizable in the patchwork quilting phenomenon - there has also come an ever-increasing interest in crochet in general, and the making of rugs, shawls, throws, etc. in the style commonly called 'Granny Square Crochet'.

This much-loved style of crochet is arguably the most universally recognized crochet motif around the world. Its popularity originates in the facts that it is made from very basic stitches and is therefore quick and easy, it is small, easily portable, quick, and uses up bits of yarn left over from other projects. When the motifs are joined the end result is a very practical, colorful and warm article which looks and feels very special and yet was both easy and cheap to produce.

Adapted from the much finer and more intricate crochet patterns brought by the early European settlers to America, which of course were also time-consuming, granny square crochet became the lifestyle crochet at a time when practicality and usefulness were much more necessary to everyday life, and indeed survival, than fine and intricate beauty was.

Now don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that granny square crochet is not beautiful, because it most certainly does have a beauty all its own. With its wonderful colors, patterns and textures it has aesthetic beauty, but it also has an ethereal beauty, too, or 'soul' - the ability to touch our hearts, perhaps because it connects us with the 'humanness' of the ones who made it, and also because it is so practical. Granny square rugs, shawls and throws are 'comfort' articles. They are also very satisfying to make.

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If you haven't yet started a crochet project - perhaps because you aren't sure what to try - then granny square crochet can be the very best way to get on, once you know your first basic stitches. The really wonderful thing about granny square crochet for a beginner is the fact that each square is quite small and therefore easy to finish, so that you can just crochet one here and there whenever you have a few spare minutes. It won't be long at all before you have enough to put together to make

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