A Game About Squares

[Bartolome Beacham]

Thetime has come to assemble all 35 of those fabulous squares making up Nuts about Squares CAL into one amazing blanket. I have purposefully taken two weeks for assembling our blanket because to my experience assembling a blanket is a LOT of work and needs to be done with care to ensure a fabulous end result.

We are going to use flat surface slip stitches to join our squares because this gives a professional and very aesthetic finish. It is slow going, I realize that (another reason why we are taking two weeks to join the blanket), but the end result is so worth it!Resources and useful linksAdd Nuts About Squares CAL on RavelryNuts about Squares CAL InformationWritten instructions for joining Nuts about Squares in this post*** Video Tutorial *** for joining Nuts about SquaresAll Nuts about Squares video tutorials in one YouTube playlistNEDERLANDS / DutchNederlandse geschreven instructies voor het hechten van Nuts about Squares in deze postYarn kitsThe 3 colorways Nuts about the Earth, Nuts about the Sea, and Nuts about the Sky are available as kits. You can use one of the suggested kits/colorways, or you can use your own colors and yarn.

The colorway for joining Nuts about Squares is simple, join your blanket using Color A. The table below gives a suggestion for how you could arrange your squares. However, if you want it totally different, please do so. It is your blanket!Instructions Nuts about Squares week 13 & 14Use the following hook size to join your squares, or go up 0.5mm from the hook size that you have been using the most during the CAL:

Maybe when you read the description of the join you feel a bit lost. I show you how to join the blanket in THIS VIDEO, maybe that helps you visualize the joining process.Horizontal joinWith Color A make a slip knot on your hook and align the first two squares that need to be joined with their right sides facing upwards, in other words, with their back sides facing each other. Make a slip stitch through the ch2-corner space of both squares, making sure that your yarn is BELOW your work between the squares. You will be joining the squares by catching one loop at a time on each of the two squares directly opposite each other. These are the two most inner loops of the squares as they lay next to one another.Insert your hook from front to back in the inner loop of the first stitch. Then insert the hook in the inner loop (also from front to back) of the first stitch of the opposite square and pull your yarn through all loops on your hook to complete the slip stitch. Continue to the next stitch and join in the same way till you have joined all 44 stitches.

When you reach the end of the first two squares, make a slip stitch through the ch2-corners of both squares. DO NOT CUT your yarn, but continue on to the next two squares.Align the next two squares that are to be joined adjacent to the first two. Pay extra attention that you have the squares in the correct order. You will be amazed at how easy it is to get your squares connected in mirror image.Continue by making a slip stitch through the ch2-corners of the next two squares and then join each each of the 44 stitches with a slip stitch in exactly the same way as the previous square. Continue till all the squares in one row are joined. Now you can cut your yarn.

Continue like this for all the horizontal lines in the blanket. Be careful to ensure your previously joined squares are NOT TWISTED when you move from one row to the next.Vertical joinUse the same method when joining the vertical joins in the blanket.A tip: although this is not strictly necessary, I find that my joins are more flexible when I do the following when I reach a crossing. Work a sc through the ch2-corner spaces of the two squares currently at, ch1 to cover the slip stitches from the horizontal join, sc through the ch2-corner of the next two squares. I find that by doing a sc instead of a ss as well as the extra ch1 that the join is more natural looking and does not pull in on itself.

Rangschik de vierkanten zoals in bovenstaand diagram of gebruik je eigen layout. De vierkanten worden in ononderbroken rijen aan elkaar gehaakt, vierkant voor vierkant tot de hele rij aan elkaar zit. Erg belangrijk: Knip de draad niet af zodra je 2 vierkanten aan elkaar hebt, maar pas als de hele rij aan elkaar zit. Haak eerst alle horizontale rijen van de deken aan elkaar en dan daarna de verticale rijen.Rechtshandigen haken de vierkanten aan elkaar van rechts naar links, linkshandigen van links naar rechts. Nog iets dat ERG belangrijk is: wees er zeker van dat je vierkanten niet gedraaid of verkeerd om zitten, vooral als je nog maar 1 of 2 rijen aan elkaar hebt. Je zult zo boos zijn op jezelf als het gebeurt.Misschien voel je je een beetje verloren als je deze aanwijzingen voor het aan elkaar haken leest. Ik zal je de stappen laten zien in deze Engelstalige video, misschien helpt dat om het proces duidelijk en zichtbaar te maken.

HorizontaalKleur A: maak een schuiflus op je haaknaald en leg de eerste twee vierkanten die aan elkaar gehaakt moeten worden naast elkaar met de goede kant naar boven, ofwel met de verkeerde kanten tegen elkaar. Haak een halve vaste door de hoek 2-lossenbogen van beide vierkanten, wees er zeker van dat je werkdraad ONDER je werk ligt en tussen de vierkanten. Je haakt de vierkanten aan elkaar door n voor n de achterste lusjes van de tegenover elkaar liggende steken op te nemen. Dit zijn dus de meest binnenste lusjes van de steken als de vierkanten naast elkaar liggen.Steek je haaknaald van voor naar achter door het binnenste lusje van de eerste steek. Steek daarna je haaknaald (ook van voor naar achter) door het binnenste lusje van de eerste steek van het tegenoverliggende vierkant, maak een omslag en haal de draad door alle lussen op de naald om de halve vaste te maken. Ga verder met de volgende steek en haak op dezelfde manier alle 44 steken met halve vasten aan elkaar.Aan het eind gekomen van de eerste twee vierkanten maak je nog een halve vaste door de 2-lossenbogen van de hoeken samen. KNIP de draad NIET AF, maar ga verder met de volgende twee vierkanten.

Leg de volgende twee vierkanten die aan elkaar moeten op de juiste plek naast de eerste twee vierkanten. Let extra goed op dat ze in de juiste volgorde liggen, het is verbazend eenvoudig om ze gespiegeld aan elkaar te zetten.Vervolg door een halve vaste door de 2-lossenbogen van de nieuwe vierkanten te maken en haak dan ook elk van de 44 steken aan elkaar op precies dezelfde manier als de eerste vierkanten. Ga zo door tot alle vierkanten van deze rij aan elkaar zijn gehaakt. Nu mag de draad worden afgeknipt.Op dezelfde manier haak je alle horizontale rijen aan elkaar. Kijk zorgvuldig of je eerder aan elkaar gehaakte vierkanten niet gedraaid liggen als je van de ene rij naar de andere gaat.

Look at that! Now you have a real blanket just waiting for the finishing touch. If you would like to share your blanket you can do so in the Official CCC Social Group on Facebook, share it on my Facebook page or tag me in your post on Instagram. If you use the hastag #NutsAboutSquares it will help me find it.

Millions of crocheters from around the world joined in and made 35 amazing squares designed by 11 talented designers, Dedri Uys, Helen Shrimpton, Polly Plum, Sigrun Hugoey, Melissa Green, Heather Gibbs, Julie Yeager, Margaret MacInnis, Susan Stevens/Mellie Blossom, Aurora Suominen, and Tatsiana Kupryianchyk.

Last but not least, I would like to say a huge thank you to Esther for not only hosting a marvellous crochet along but also allowing me to share her photos with you.

Have a lovely day.

Too-da-loo for now x

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Your goal is to get the squares to gather a dot of the same color. You can use squares to push other squares to line up with the dot. When there's an arrow on the ground, it will change the direction of your square. Plan your path accordingly!

The Nuts About Squares CAL by Esther Dijkstra started yesterday and I am very pleased to tell you that the CAL starts with one of my squares. If you look very closely at the photo below, you might be able to recognize it :)

The CAL sees you making 35 squares using 12 designs from 11 established designers. Some of the patterns are paid patterns, but they will be made available for free (by the generous designers) for the duration of the CAL.

Some of these designers (*) were featured in the Block a Week CAL 2014, which was my first large afghan. I am familiar with all the others and have, in fact, made at least one item from each of them, so this line-up makes me all kinds of happy!

Esther has created English (US terms) video tutorials for each square. You can find a playlist of all the video tutorials HERE as they are released. There are also Dutch written translations for each pattern. Parts will be released weekly on a Friday, starting on the 31st of March (yesterday). You will find the Information Post for the CAL HERE. Both the video playlist and the Information Post will be updated weekly.

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