And finished!

I thought it was fitting that for my last square I should make my favourite from this year - and although there were many contenders I have decided on the crocheted cable rings square. I first made this square way back on the 2nd April - post number 92! The pattern can be found here:
http://allcraftsblogs.com/crochet_square_patterns/fishermans_ring_square/fishermans_ring_square.html

Tuesday 31st December 

I hope you've enjoyed watching the project progress as much as I have enjoyed completing it, now all there is to do is decide what to make out of  a couple of hundred random squares (I think they may end up as a very large blanket!). But for now it's time to give my trusty 3.5mm hook a bit of a break!!

Penultimate square.......

I can't believe that tomorrow signifies the last day of this project. I also can't believe that I have made it all the way through 2013 and have managed to crochet something every single day! On some days I have had to be a bit creative about where/when I've crocheted - on planes, trains and buses, on sun beds, in bars and at campsites, in the blazing Greek sunshine, the snow of the Peak District and the dark of a Cotswold campsite, in the privacy of my lounge or garden and on numerous school trips.
So where was today's square created? In an Oslo bar, where the beer was £8 a pint and we needed to shelter from the cold outside. It uses a mix of tc, bpdtc, dc and chain stitches to give a central raised square (not clear from the photo) surrounded by a more lacy section:

Monday 30th December

Spiral.......

A short flight to Oslo gave just enough time for today's square, a spiral:

Sunday 29th December

It was started with a dc and htc, worked in tc round and round and then finished with a htc, a dc and a slip stitch.

Rows of shells.....

Following a 27 dc foundation row I worked a 5 tc shell in every 5th stitch (starting with 3ch, miss 2 dc and ending with a tc in the final stitch. A straight edge was then created by working a dc in the centre of each shell and separating them by 4ch, this row then had 27 dc worked across it - 1 in each dc and 1 for each ch from the previous row. These 3 rows were then repeated 4 more times to create a square:

Saturday 28th December

I think this pattern would make a good scarf!

Ladders......

Alternating rows of double crochets and the treble crochet, single chain combination to create the holes - I really like the effect the variegated wool gives this:

Friday 27th December

A Boxing Day flower......

A simple central flower surrounded by a variety of treble crochet rounds of different patterns, the final round is entirely back post treble crochets to create a raised frame for the whole square:

Thursday 26th December

Target practice........

A circle with ridges created using the front post treble crochet stitch, the ridges are continued out from the corners on the square section also:

Wednesday 25th December