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New Crochet Project – Skull Granny Squares

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I finished my scarf for winter, and switched gears. I have been loving doing granny squares. Once you get them memorized you can sit and watch TV and make little squares.

I actually bought this pattern on Etsy from a seller named SleepyFrogCrochet. The directions are clear with lots of pictures.

Skull granny square.

I am using Carron Blossom Cakes in 37012 Yacht Club and 37017 Blossoms for colors.

It’s coming together pretty well. There is a couple trickier spots for me, but overall it’s been fine. I have about ten of them, and I am just going to keep making them until I have a blanket.

The cat is significantly less interested since it’s not wool, not that it stops her from attacking my yarn.

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I am making a very large scarf and Tally has been all over it. She cannot understand why she can’t attack it, lick it until it’s fuzzy, or generally freak out on it. She’s very disappointed her input is not being taken.

I am not the greatest with yarn arts, but I like to crochet because it gives me something to do with my hands besides pick at my cuticles when I am nervous. I haven’t really done a lot of it since before I transitioned to male, so I don’t actually look forward to dealing with the extra attention as a man who crochets if I take it out of the house with me.

I think knitting, crochet, and sewing are so very unnecessarily gendered. I like it, and I am not giving it up just because I look like some random cis dude these days.