Granny Square Sweater Instead of Flowers

Spring is coming and I’ve been thinking a lot about making some crochet flowers, something I’ve never attempted before. I found several patterns for a few different types of flowers and asked around on some of my Facebook groups to see which one I should try first. The rose pattern won! The only thing left to do is actually start on it, lol:) 

I hope I'm not the only person that has at least five or six WIPs, or works in progress, going, right? Well, let’s just say that I started gathering materials for the rose, but couldn’t find the wire I know I have somewhere. Needless to say, the materials I have gathered are sitting in a pile on my craft desk while I’ve started working on a granny square sweater for my daughter. So, I’m going to save flowers for next week and share about granny square sweaters!

Granny squares are so much fun because you can do so many different things with them and there are so many variations that are easy to learn. I prefer the basic granny square because I can whip one up in fifteen minutes, but if you like to be adventurous, there are all sorts of granny squares you can try.

The sweater with the red squares above was the one that inspired me. I don’t really wear sweaters much, but my daughter loves them, so I decided to try and make a variation of it that would fit a child. I have some cute pink yarn that my daughter got me for my birthday last year that was just perfect for this project. So far, I’ve got the front panel of the sweater done except for the collar. The middle picture above shows that panel, with the third picture showing the backside with all the little ends I'll have to weave in!

My steps to starting this project were:

Figuring out how many granny squares I would need to make it fit my small daughter. I started out with nine for the front before switching to eleven to help make the collar. I did this mostly by comparing the granny squares to one of her shirts, and then I used her as the model to compare when I was finished connecting the granny squares.

Once I figured out roughly how many granny squares I needed, I made them. Then, I had to figure out what method I wanted to use to connect them. I looked up several methods, but ended up deciding that I liked the look of the flat slip stitch the best.

My last step will be to crochet on a basic collar once I have the back and front panels connected. I'll have to do an update on that later as I'm not finished with it yet.

Wish me luck and have fun with your projects this week!