crochet squares purse

Thirty squares done, twenty-four to go

Leslie Stahlhut

My second effort at making a granny square bag is going much more quickly than the first.

Part of it is that this time I have a clearer sense of what I am doing, and by organizing the colors around a pair of shoes I bought for spring, I have infinitely fewer decisions to make.

As a result, I finished the sixteen five-round squares in what feels like record time, despite the fact it was a very rainy weekend and there was no where near as much daylight as I had hoped to have.

Here are the sixteen squares laid out in a grid (of sorts):

Sixteen squares of the thirty squares complete for the granny square purse
Sixteen squares of the thirty squares complete for the granny square purse

and here they are in one possible arrangement for the finished bag:

sixteen granny squares for a crochet purse
One possible arrangement for the sixteen squares

In addition to completing the sixteen five-round squares, I also got fourteen of the two-round squares done:

twenty-four two-round granny squares
Fourteen of of the thirty-six squares needed for the straps and edging

I still need to tackle the two ten-round granny squares, and even with the limit of 10 colors, I am left to figure out which two of 3,628,800 possible permutations will be the exact right ones.