It happened to me so many times! And I still didn’t learn my lesson! It always goes like this: I come up with design for a granny square, look up at my existing yarn stash, pick some beautiful colors that match with each other, start on the project, and only when I ran out of some of the colors, I go to my yarn shop just to find out that that particular color wasn’t available anymore. Hm… What am I supposed to do now!? I ask myself every time when something like this happened, and I can tell you, it happens a lot!

That was the scenario for this daisy cushion. It was supposed to be a Daisy blanket, but when I made these 16 granny squares, I ran out of this beautiful green yarn, and was pretty disappointed when I found out that I couldn’t find that color anywhere, anymore.

So, I was forced to make the plan B. This was to make the cushion with these squares I’d already made, and to choose completely different colors for the blanket. And this time, I went to the yarn shop first, to see which colors I can count on…

I must admit that everything turned out very well at the end. I made this cushion, and I’m working on my colorful and happy blanket, which I absolutely adore so far!

I didn’t want to crochet the back side of the cushion; I wanted the simplest and easiest solution for its back, so I just sew on this colorful fabric (from Ikea) to my cushion. It took me maybe an hour to do that. Simple, quick and easy! And if I may say, cute! At least I like it!

I plan to make tutorial for these Daisy granny squares (it will be a part of my Daisy Granny Square Blanket pattern), so if you like it, stay tuned!

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Update: The Daisy Blanket pattern is now available in Dada’s place shop, (payment options: Credit cards & PayPal).

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You can also buy it in my Ravelry shop, and in my Etsy shop. (payment option: PayPal)

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Do you remember my post about Japanese crochet flowers from the last month? Well, I finally made a cushion with those flowery granny squares. I really don’t know why it took me so long to make it… but now, I’m quite happy with how it turned out!

This is how the back side looks like. I like to add fabric to the back of cushions, because it’s faster than crocheting, it’s easy to add a zipper to the fabric, and the fabric doesn’t allow the cushion to stretch.

Of course, when I like particular pattern, I can’t stop with one item. I make two. Or three. Or four… this time I stopped at two cushions.

And this is the back side of the cushion number two.

On both cushions I added one on my favorite edges, the Pom Pom edge. The free pattern can be found here.

These cute drinking jars I found when I was on vacation in Greece this year. I fell in love with them! They look so summery, dressed in shiny, transparent colors.

I found the pattern for the Japanese flower square in this cute Japanese crochet book. I changed the pattern a little (as I usually do). Instead of three rows around the flowers, I made only one.

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Have a nice and colorful weekend! 🙂

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The other day (after I had finished my latest pattern), I took my ever growing stash of yarn, and one of my Japanese craft book which I had treated myself for Christmas and make this pillow cover. I didn’t finished it yet, I just made the crochet side of the cover, but hope I will put it together soon.
The pattern for the flowery granny square I found in this Japanese crochet book (which I bought in this fabulous shop).
This is actually the pattern for the blanket from the cover. I just omitted the last two rows from the pattern, and joined them together with single crochet. I absolutely adore Japanese crochet books. They are packed with so much beauty!

I really like how it turned out, can’t wait to finish the pillow!

I must admit that I fell in love with these flowers, I’m already working on the second pillow with the same pattern, and I seriously thinking about making a blanket with some rich, lacy edge… I can imagine myself wrapped in that beauty (in a few months) with a cup of coffee and some exciting new project on the hook…

In my next post I will show you what else I have been making these days…