Granny Square Afghan

Making an granny square afghan

So, I didn't know what a granny square was either until I was looking through a pattern book my mom sent me and my boyfriend requested that I make him an afghan (afghan, not Afghan (big difference)). After looking through different styles, he told me he wanted one like how his grandma used to make. I found the type he wanted and proceeded down the rabbit hole.

Af·ghan

ˈafɡan/

1. A woolen blanket or shawl, typically one knitted or crocheted in strips or squares.

I'm sure you've seen them, these granny squares. They're about 10" by 10" and look holey. If you're unsure what I'm talking about, I've gone ahead and pulled a picture from google for you. They're typically made from a bunch of different colors. I'd say a lot of people got these types of blankets from, you guessed it, they're granny's (nana, grandma etc)!

First square!

Anywho, I'm going to make my boyfriend one, and this is going to be the first post about it. At first he requested blue, because blue is a manly color (or at least the manliest I have in my yarnventory (yarn-inventory)).

I thought it was going to be severely boring, so I decided to add a dark green to it as well, so sort of break it all up. I have two different colors of green, dark green and emerald green. I felt the dark green went better with the blue I am using. I believe the green is called hunter green and the blue is peacock blue.

I've only made a couple so far as I keep getting side tracked by other things. I really need to baton down the hatches and get this taken care of. Summer is just starting, I know, but I need to work on this because my boyfriend is 6'8", and in order to make this usable for him I'm going to need a lot of these darned squares. I'll be making a video on HOW to make these darn squares, because it will take too many picture to get this across, and I like making videos. 

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