#moss stitch granny square

[crochica]

[weedlovingweed]

the proj im starting… will require 90 squares…. 😳

[smallpotatoknitwear]

Shamrock Sweater #1

I’ve done two shamrock (before you @ me, yes I know that technically these are four-leaf clovers, not shamrocks, but I don’t want to hear it) sweaters, and this was the first! I started it in February 2022 with the goal of finishing it for St. Patrick’s Day that year… and then abandoned it halfway put together for a full year 😅 I finally got around to finishing it the day before St. Patrick’s Day 2023, and wore it for the next three weeks straight, before it got too warm out for such a heavy sweater!

This sweater was made using this granny square pattern. I made 48 squares and blocked them, then connected them in two 2x4 panels for the front, one 5x4 panel for the back, and two 3x2 tubes for the sleeves, then seamed the sides, attached the sleeves, and seamed the top. The sleeves turned out a tad shorter than I had wanted, so I did five rows of crochet moss stitch to lengthen them before doing eight rows of 2x2 knit ribbing for the cuffs. Around the bottom, sides, and neck of the cardigan, I did five rows of crochet moss stitch. I used a US size I hook for all of the crocheting, and US size 8 knitting needles for the cuffs. The color pattern of the shamrocks is a checkerboard; half of the squares were made with the same green yarn I used for the joining, border, and cuffs, but unfortunately I lost the label of it, so I don’t know the brand or color name—however it is almost identical to Loops & Threads Impeccable in Moss, if you’re looking for something similar. The other squares were made with Loops & Threads Impeccable in Fern, Moss, and Forest. The white yarn is Vanilla Glaze by Caron O’Go Donuts. If you want to make a pattern similar to this, I would recommend gridding it out, because I had the wrong numbers of some of the secondary colors, so the one sleeve doesn’t match up with the pattern of the rest of the sweater.

[the-average-procrastinator]

Well, my practice swatch derailed after I tried the moss stitch. For some reason that one is difficult for me.

The granny square isn’t the worst tho :)

[northernsuncreative]

Well, I finally decided what to do with my 2023 temperature blanket. So along the way, I managed to miss a few days, miscount a few rows, and skip a few stitches. Plus the edging was just, no bueno. So after seeing granny squares in the moss stitch, count me in! So each month will be a square, squares will be boardered and stitched together once all squares have been finished.

I stopped mid April, so between stopping in April and starting over, I’m a little behind 🥲 BUT January is complete! Moving onto February after I finish the project I started tonight. 🧶

[flannelshirtandjeans]

Crocheted myself a cardigan! (Frankensteined together from any hexagon cardigan pattern, THIS granny square pattern, something that's probably suzette stitch for the forearms, the sections around the squares and the neckline, andddd a moss stitch waistband that wraps around the back. I just. mashed them together and it just happened to work. xD)

[thecrochetcrowd]

Crochet Easy Dishcloth Pattern + Tutorial

Crochet Easy Dishcloth Crochet Dishcloth This easy to crochet dishcloth is using the moss stitch which makes it very quick and easy to crochet. What is the moss stitch? It’s very simple, it consists of 1 single crochet, chain 1. You crochet within chain one spaces. Though it appears like a solid unit, it’s actually like a granny experience. This dishcloth is 8″ x 8″ square. The width will give…

[impossiblechop]

Moss Stitch Fingerless Gloves!

This marks the end of gift season for me lmao, except for the beanie I promised to make my grandma.

I had to make a secret gift and decided to try an new type of glove, and went looking on YouTube for ideas.

I found a YouTuber called HayHayCrochet, and used her fingerless gloves tutorial.

Her video was very easy to follow and her other content is great for other project ideas!

On to the project…

What you will need:

•scissors

•single color of yarn 5mm

•4mm hook

You just start by chaining 31 and you basically just make one big square. This was honestly really fun, in the beginning, because I have never made a glove this way.

Where you do 12 single crochets into the back loop to make the ribbing and then do the moss stitch, and then go back to the ribbing, chain one tune your work, and repeat till it’s big enough for your hand.

I’m not going to list the actually directions, but I will explain the moss stitch! It’s basically and alternating pattern between a slip stitch and a half double crochet, where you always start with a slip stitch and end with a half double.

It makes a really cool bumpy texture, which I would think is why it’s called the moss stitch. But it was so fun to work with a new stitch.

However by the 5th row of me counting to 12 then to 14 then to 12 and then finally chaining one just to start the next row all over again made me realize how much I love granny squares!

Granny squares are truly more interesting to make because you change what you are doing more often than when you just do row after row.

Anyway, I didn’t change the pattern much from the video, all I did different was how I closed the sides.

I did 8 stitches from the top and then 13 from the bottom, where the video said to do 8 and 14. Which is not a big change.

The big change was instead of tying off the yarn and sewing up the sides, I just joined the sides with a single crochet using the same line of yarn.

I got this idea from the last project I did, and I found it just saved some time and I like how it looked !

Anyway this was still a fun project ! I highly recommend as a gift to others!

[turnipshepard]

Wind and Truth crochet project is a scarf, my The Wire project is basically a huge granny square that will be a blanket in the end, and I think I wanna do a moss stitch scarf… maybe for that I’ll get back into The Expanse rewatch I started last year or I’ll finally watch Hacks

[bookswgreen]

Where have I been?

Happy December friends! I've been away for a while but I'm here to share some fun information. I made a Substack!

Putting my reviews on tumblr has never been something I was fully sold on, so after a lot of thinking and knowing I've loved newsletters, I thought that this would be a fun thing to do. Will every review make it? Absolutely not, but if you've liked my super indepth review(s) I've done, they're going to migrate. I'm still going to share a lot of my reading, crochet, and other projects here on tumblr, but the migration is something I'm super excited about.

My first official post goes live tomorrow, and here's the link to finding it all!

But what else have I been up to? I finished my undergrad this year, and I'm onto a masters in English next year which means my reading is (hopefully) going to increase.

My fiber arts projects have continued, with a six-day star blanket and market bag finished, while I'm working on a checkerboard vest, a double knit pattern, and a moss stitch scarf as well as slow progress on my granny square blanket. Hopefully I'll finish that soon but if you've ever done a granny square blanket, you know it can take a long time.

Starting in January I'm moving into an apartment which I'm super excited about to start cooking again, get to spend more time with one of my best friends living right next door, and people with massive book collections I can borrow to read more.

I hope you all have been doing great and here's hoping I can get more active!!

[crochica]

[sluttypatrickstar]

hello crochet people i am making some squares for craft forward and trying to use a different stitch for every square to keep it interesting. i have done moss stitch, waffle stitch, and a basic granny square. does anyone else have stitch suggestions??? i might do suzette next

[monsterbutch]

i'm frogging my giant granny square to make a moss stitch bag instead. because what hell am i gonna do with a giant granny square that's too small to be a blanket

[dollsonmain]

No, again.

I'll look at that granny square pattern but I'm starting to lean toward just doing moss stitch.

Alright, cleaning cloths in the dryer.

I want to try one more thing with the crochet pattern and if THAT doesn't work I'll look at this other pattern I've been given.

[merianmoriarty]

Yarncraft as Stim

So!  Yarncraft involves a lot of repetitive motion, can involve lots of textures, can involve noises, and has visible progress, all things that can affect your serotonin production.  Yay!  I do not recommend super-cheap acrylics, as they feel scratchy even when washed and most yarncraft works best if you only wash after the item has been completed.  Pound of Love skeins are pretty nice, as are most fake fur yarns and baby yarns.  T-shirt yarns can also be lovely, though they can be stretchy and create challenges when working with them.

In my case, I hoard yarn--I see a color that I fall in love with, or feel a texture that I need in my life, and I have to buy it, even if I have no plan on how to use it.  Much of the time, I don’t even keep the finished product; I often gift scarves, hats, and blankets purely because there was a color or texture I felt compelled to work with.  So I gradually work my way through my hoard with something that calms my mind more than scrolling my phone or reading and is a little easier to physically push away if I find myself slipping into hyperfocus.

Yarncraft has stopping points built-in.  You finish a row, or a color block, or a leaf, or a granny square, and that’s the end of a step or task.  Now your underqualified/overworked little brain-executive can be nudged into starting a new task, even if it’s just the next row, or color, or flower, or square.  For me, I find that it eases my anxiety about things like task-start-delay and task-conflation, and even makes it easier for me to complete and switch tasks for a little while afterward.  “I finished a row.  Now I brush my teeth.”  “I finished a color.  Now I drink my coffee.”

If you are able to use sharp objects safely, embroidery and cross-stitch will let you experience smooth textures in the needle and floss, and cross-stitch will additionally give you rougher or more rigid textures in your base fabric.  Embroidery can be fiddly, though, and may be frustrating, especially as a starter craft.  By contrast, cross-stitch can run a whole gamut of challenge level depending on your ability to transcribe maps and distinguish colors, but the overall technique is very simple and extremely repetitive (a good one for think-a-little/stop-thinking/think-a-little-more).  Since you’re passing the needle in and out of fabric, you’re not necessarily in contact with the needle for the entirety of the task, which can be a definite boon if you need to put the piece down suddenly, but undoing a mistake almost always requires snipping, which may contribute to anxiety.  Task-breaks in these are more fluid and the steps may have unpredictable duration; you may need to set timers for yourself to prevent hyperfocus.

Knitting and crochet both have a wide range of sizes and stitches to let you do a more fiddly task (if you need intense focus to relax) or a less fiddly task (if you need mindless repetition to relax).  Metal knitting needles can make sliding or clicking sounds for gentle auditory stim, and bamboo knitting needles give a velvety sensation in the hands when they slide together.  Blankets made on big hooks or needles build up quickly even with simple stitches, so if you thrive on visible progress, I recommend learning basics like Moss Stitch and Grass Stitch to work bulky yarns on hooks or needles size M and higher.  Bigger hooks and needles are also gentler on disabled hands--when I’m having a bad pain day or I’m losing some motor control, there’s no way I can work with a small set of needles.  I typically have at least two projects in progress:  one smaller and more complicated for things like gift-giving, challenging myself, or focus; one larger and simpler for pure repetition.  In conjunction with that, I hold my yarn on the left but work on the right, so all the exciting parts of crochet are performed with my right hand while all the exciting parts of knitting are performed with my left, which gives me more options when one hand is less coordinated or in more pain on a given day.  Knitting and crochet are also easier to undo without being destructive--if you make a mistake, you can unwind the work (quite far, unless you had a change in yarn), and then it can be put away without visible errors which might otherwise cause anxiety or distraction.

[dreamsinombre]

This is the winter of unraveling.

I have a lot of old, old, old acrylic projects that were either not done very well, or that were never finished, so I have been tearing them all back to repurpose. I'm actually very nearly done. The pile pictured is the last of it: a few squares (swatches? an attempt at some kind of knit granny square blanket? who knows) and two scarves.

With all these scraps, I'm making a patchwork blanket:

Just sort of making it up as I go, picking up from one side or another, trying to make the color pairings interesting. It's all just a real simple crochet moss stitch, which is very easy to do and creates a wonderful texture that I'm really fond of. Ideally I won't need to worry about getting more yarn to finish rows when it gets too big, because I'm making it out of small rectangles and squares. All of these so far have been growing off one another, so they have been getting bigger, but I'm not going to be keeping that up. Making a scrap & stash busting blanket somewhat looses the point when one has to buy more yarn to finish it.

I've also been doing this for projects made of wool (and keeping them separate), and I don't have enough old wool to do a similar blanket project, but I'm considering doing a fun hat or two, or maybe a cowl. We'll see!