It has taken me a while to get through all of these grannies from Simply Crochet’s granny square a week app, but after finally getting them all finished it was time to get them laid out and put together. Once I had them laid out as I wanted them I discovered a few problems;

First, I was one square short. Luckily there was a pattern in Simply Crochet magazine, issue 27, for a star motif that I wanted to make already and knew it would go well with the other grannies so was perfect.

Second, some of the grannies were huge compared to the others and it was messing up how they would go together, the only solution – some had to have a slight haircut and loose a round or two, sorry Granny Irene, Iris, and Mabel.

Once those two problems were out of the way, along came the next one, how best to put them together?! I tried a few different methods and was not happy with them, so decided to try just using a dc stitch seam in a dark colour (black) that wasn’t in any of the granny squares. I was really happy with how well it worked out, as I was starting to think they were never going to look nice when all put together.

Once I had attached all the grannies together I decided to add a border again in black to finish the piece off. I wanted to do something in keeping with the granny square theme, and started by doing a row of dc stitches the whole way around. Next I fastened on at a corner, and did the following: ch3 2trb ch2 3trb. This provided the corner edge and next I did; *ch1, skip 2 ch then 3 trb into next, repeat from * to next corner dc, 3 trb, ch 2, 3trb, I repeated this around all edges and joined with a slip stitch to first ch3.

I then decided I wanted a square pyramid effect around the edges, and completed this;

For the two long edges;

Pyramid row 1
Join in first ch space after corner ch space, ch3, 2trb into ch space, *ch1, 3 treble into next ch space, repeat from * 2 more times.

Once the first pyramid was finished, you just repeat the pyramid pattern for length of the row, starting with the next pyramid in the next ch space from the first row of the previous pyramid

For the two shorter sides;