I wasn’t planning to share another granny square project so close on the heels of my gingham baby blanket post, but the feature on stained glass crochet projects over at Crochet Concupiscence made me want to share my own.
If you’re active in online crochet sources, you can probably spot the inspiration for this one right away. Like many, many other crafters, I’m a big fan of JulieAnny’s Stained Glass Afghan Square by Julie Yeager. It’s a lovely design with textured details that I just had to try.
I made some modifications to the original design to add more of a “linked” appearance between the squares, but the spirit of the design remains the same.
I chose really bright, fun, happy colors in two shades each. I was originally just using the pink, yellow, and blue shades (it had a CMYK thing going for it, which I loved), but it needed an additional color to work for the size I had in mind.
This one got a third place award in the contest. I’m honored. 🙂 And speaking of the contest, and stained glass afghans, here’s an afghan that I loved from that contest. The creator’s name (NOT ME) has been cropped out to respect privacy, but if it’s yours and you want credit, let me know! Here’s the pattern on Ravelry if you’re interested. How beautiful are those shades of pink and green?!
See my project on Ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/BabycakesCreates/julieannys-stained-glass-afghan-square
Beautiful color choices, I love the pattern 🙂
Thank you!
I am in love. That blanket is stunning
Well done for 3rd place
Gorgeous! I will have to try out this technique.
Absolutely gorgeous, great colour combo’s and love the texture this pattern has.
Thank you for the kind comments! You made my day. 🙂 I highly recommend this pattern – so many fun possibilities!
love this. Very original and out of the box.
another beautiful project! Love it!
this is so pretty! nice work. 🙂
Thank you!
How do I get a pattern for the stained glass granny square afghan.
Here’s the link to the pattern page on Ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/julieannys-stained-glass-afghan-square