Scrappy Rug: Pinwheel block

I noticed I have way more scraps than I need to finish my WavyC2C of scraps so ... i played around a little and remembered squares I saw by fantastic Quilt designer & pattern maker Jemima Flendt (@tiedwitharibbon) called ConfettiQuilt so I dreamed up this 😏

Although you can use any pattern to make a scrappy rug - why not something new and fun?

And of course you could make it NOT scrappy at all .. but for me making with scrap yarn is like quilting with old jeans ... Repurposing has become a lifestyle lately :D

How do you start the block?
Colors ..
Pick tone for background (bluish greens for me - will be worked full rows from beginning till end)
Then 3 distinct colors for marking three different parts. I chose dark tones: browns and bluish greys for sides. And white for middle.

Pattern is simple solid granny square quarter.
All stitches worked with two colors at a time.
Tricky part is changing colours but I have quite a few pictures here on how to do it so you should be fine ;)
Tip: untangle threads as you go because otherwise you will have a hard time getting to the 10th row...

Starfish flower granny square :)

GRANNY SQUARE DAY is here! yay!!!

this year I wanted to celebrate with new granny square pattern :)

celebrate with me & make one yourself ;)

This time I've made be step-by-step pics, just to show you how easy it actually is :)

Mini ♥ Granny Square

Almost a week ago I saw a tiny granny square with a heart in the middle on instagram (made by talented Susan @suregal27)

and today I finally tried it out :)

heart was simple and looked cute but I struggled to make the second round square up like it should according to the pattern .. so obviously - I frogged it a few times and finally made my own perfect hearty granny square ♥

1st row - heart! (as seen on Susans @suregal27 instagram profile)

Magic circle. Ch2, 3 tr, 3 dc, 1tr, 3dc, 3 tr worked in magic circle. Ch2, sl st in magic circle. Tighten magic circle.

not your typical granny square*

I am happy to tell you all that I have finally started to join the blocks from my tinytower!!!
I wanted to make the beginning of the joining even more special so I created a special squre - my own flower block!!!

and I came up with a name for the blanket too - BigBrightBlanket :)

So here comes the scheme and few tips along the way :)

Tiny tower

The game of Tiny tower was my obsession for quite a while ... but [un]fortunately I finally have all I could get from It (bitizens are as happy as they get and I have built all floors of the upgraded version too)... so this is my way of saying goodbye to almost half year of the hard work building the tower pixel by pixel (or floor by floor) and the tower itself ...

a bit of statistics ->

without update: there are 146 floors, well actually 145, because the last one I built was just to be sure I can't add more floors (there are 54 residential floors and 90 business floors (18 of a kind: food, service, recreation, retail, creative)). And population of 270 bitizens :)

with update: there are 3 more residential floors and 5 business floors (1 of each kind) so 153 or 154 if you count the empty floor. And now the population has grown to 285 happy bitizens (the last ones were really hard to get, but good things come to those who wait and work hard to get what they want). O, and in this version you have missions too (I finished all of them, few even twice) =)

and this tiny tower is my next obsession ->

I LOVE CROCHETING!

amazing X granny square

I found inspiration in one of my favorite blogs -> Signed With an Owl. But there where no schemes and I didn't have that book but I loved that square so much that I thought - I will make it anyway! it took me all night but at last I figured out how to make it look almost the same .. the ending is a bit different, but i like it better this way :) (because it's my way and I know how to make it and it will be easier to crochet them together later in the process)

I think these looks fabulous, and you probably won't believe me, but it is just as easy as making a simple granny square, because basically it IS granny square! well a bit modified version of a granny square :)

so this is how I made it ->
1st step
crochet granny square (scheme can be found in one of my previous blogposts) with little but VERY important alteration - in each corner of each row crochet 13 chains not just 2