Hi to you all,
this was a real difficult morning today: When I went to bed yesterday, I thought about to join my next blanket with leaf tendrils. But I didn't find such a connection. So I asked in the great bamcal group (Hi to you! Your help is always great!!!) about any ideas and tested many options this morning. The suggested patterns looked really nice, but nothing was suitable for me - you have to know I am a bit lazy about joing and need something quick, easy AND effective! Something where I don't need to rib off too much if I count wrong and where I can cheat if necessary.
But as so many times before - your help wasn't useless. After checking all ideas and trying and mixing and ribbing off again - in my head grew that idea. And now I am really satisified. This joining is a bit worked like my last years' grain connection , but I modified it for the leaf effect!
General information:
Abbreviations:
- st - stitch
- ch - chain
- sc - single crochet
- dc - double crochet
- slst - slip stitch
For this joining you need the same amount of stitches at each granny square. My stitch count before the joining is 39 stitches per side.
My plan is to join at first as many squares as I need for my desired lenghth. After that, I will choin the pieces togehther until I have my desired width.
Joining two squares at one side:
The joining is worked in three steps:
- Work a round in white around each square you want to join. In the corner you work (one stitch, ch 2, one stitch). This round you can use to get your squares at exactly the same size. You can work sc, hdc, dc...; just as you like and need for the right size. It is just important, that your stitch count is 41 at the end of this round. Fasten off.
- Now you work another round around each square in light green: [(sc, ch 2, sc)= corner made, sk 1 st (the hidden st), (ch 2, sk 1 st, sc)x19, ch2] x4. Fasten off. You should have 21 sc on each side now .
- Now you change to dark green and start with the joining itself: place both squares in front of you, one behind the other with the right side upside. You begin at the square which is in front of you: Work a slip stich in the first ch- 2- space left to the right corner (NOT in the corner). (Hook from the upside to the downside of the square). Then you chain one . Now work a slip stitch (hook again from the upside to the downside) in the first ch-2 left to the right corner of the square which is further behind of you. ☆ Now again chain 1 and again a slip stitch into the next ch- 2 of the square in frount of you. Chain one again, then a slip stitch to the next ch-2 of the square further behind of you☆. Repeat from ☆-☆, until the last ch-2 space further behind of you (NOT the corner).
It is a little bit like a zipper.
Joining over the corners (Note January 2021: this is not worked by me yet, because I didn't work enough squares to test. That's the way it should work! I tell you when I tested this step. If you are faster than me, please feel free to test and to contact me if there are any problems.)
Aboveis the method to join two squares. When you are finished with the desired length of your blanket, you can join two long pieces together. At this step, you don't have to leave out the corners. Just work over them.
Here is a little scheme:
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