This week I finally buckled down and started to teach myself to crochet. Now, I’ve crocheted for years, but only on an intuitive level — I didn’t know many stitches and I couldn’t read patterns. The siren call of the granny square was too much to resist. My pledge to refrain from purchasing new craft supplies this year and work through my stashes instead has propelled me in the direction of the ultimate stash-buster.

Above is a photo of some of my early progress. Given the limited size of the granny square, I decided it was wasn’t worth the effort to frog the early products, and thus I can illustrate my progress. Misshapes are quite c