Yesterday morning I was up in plenty of time to get my son ready for school, and when my son and I were waiting for the bus at the bus stop we agreed that the only thing worse that being at the up so early and waiting at the bus stop was not being up so early and waiting at the bus stop.

Today, we were, again, ready in plenty of time, and by mid-afternoon, I had finished with some household projects that required my attention and was ready to crochet.

I recently made Jan Eaton’s “Willow” square, one of the 200 blocks contained in her book 200 Crochet blocks for blankets, throws, and afghans. Using a 5.0 mm hook and three shades of pink from the Red Heart Super Saver line of yarn, I made these squares:

While I love the pattern, I wanted to experiment with some variation in the design on the squares being used.

Lucky for me then, that in addition to providing a variety of color schemes in this tome, Ms. Eaton also includes suggested companion blocks for the various motifs, and one of the blocks she suggested for “Willow” is the elegantly simply “Lacy Cross.”

Using my 5.0 mm hook once again, and some Red Heart Super Saver baby pink and petal pink, I made two additional squares:

and while they looked fine with each other, my goal had been to intersperse them with the “Willow” square, which I did:

While I am delighted with the look of these two squares, getting to the “Lacy Cross” square page from the “Willow” square page meant that I ended up looking at some of the other squares in the book, and I came across several that were very tempting.

To paraphrase from the potato chip commercial which asserted “no one can eat just one,” Ms. Eaton’s squares are so fun and delicious, no one can crochet just one.