An afternoon at the cricket......

Having spent the afternoon watching cricket I needed to make a relatively simple square so I could also keep an eye on the match:

A square worked in rounds of trebles, at the centre of each row one treble was replaced by a single chain to give the vertical and horizontal holes.
It was one of those quintessentially English afternoons - strawberries, pimms and a village cricket ground. The players however were all current or ex Warwickshire players playing in a benefit match making it a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon:

Triangle stripes......

Watching the pyramid stage at Glastonbury (on TV!) I was inspired to make a triangle based square:

Worked in double crochets each row increases by two stitches (one at either end) up to the widest part and then decreases by two stitches each row.

Waterlily......

A pretty flower with several layers of petals:

This also came from the 200 crochet blocks book - square number 16.

Fretwork......

Thursday's square was another one from the 200 crochet blocks book:

This is block 197 from the book. I've discovered that the title of the book was slightly misleading as it actually contains 212 squares - but from square 101 onwards each square is worked in four different colour schemes so it is not 200 different patterns, there is still lots of inspiration though!

A corner granny......

I bought the book '200 crochet blocks' last weekend as inspiration for this project. Wednesday's square used a simple granny to start with and then has double crochets in each colour worked on two sides only:

This was square 7 from the book.

Stripes......

A simple square worked in rows of double crochets, with a couple of stripes:

This square started with a foundation chain of 26, the first of which was skipped and then 25 double crochets were worked. At the end of the row a single chain was worked to enable turning. This was repeated until square, with 3 rows worked in different colours (2 white and 1 dark purple) towards the top of the square.

Finished.....

I've finished joining the squares together using double crochets and put a frilly border of sets of five treble crochets round the edge:

The first of many items to be competed using the random squares I have made for this project.......