Thirteen more crochet squares on the road to one thousand

Over the past two days, in my quest to rehab (or find) one thousand crochet squares, I managed to add thirteen rehabbed crochet squares to the nook in the wall:

The nook in the wall with 13 more crochet squares
The nook in the wall with 13 more crochet squares

How I got to thirteen (which brings the grand total, including those already sent, to 226) was a combination of crochet grit and some crochet luck.

First I had figured out how to get a consistent five-inch crochet square from the crochet roses that my late mother-in-law made back in the late sixties or early seventies, and as such, I was able to transform three of the highly textured roses from this:

three highly textured crochet flowers
Three highly textured found crochet flowers

to this:

Three highly textured crochet roses transformed into five-inch crochet squares
Three five-inch crochet rose squares

Without any crochet drama.

This had been particularly satisfying because when I first encountered the roses, I had no idea what I would do with them, let alone how I could do it, but I eventually found a straightforward and reliable way to crochet what amounted to a crochet armature onto the back of the roses which then allowed me to quickly and easily square them off.

With that done, I continued to work here and there on the other pieces, but I also started digging through one of the many boxes of yarn and other crochet pieces that got packed when I moved last March.

To my delight, I found these two pieces from the 101 Crochet Squares crochet-along I completed in January of 2014. In that time I had not found a use for the 101 crochet squares that I had made, so when the request for squares from Project Amigo arrived in my inbox, I was glad to be able to put some of them to use, and even with that, these two squares had not yet been identified or counted:

two five-inch crochet squares, one green and one blue
Two unearthed five-inch crochet squares

Meanwhile, I continued to work on the nine crochet remnants I had identified for rehab, and eventually, I finished all nine:

Another nine-patch of rehabbed crochet remnants
Another nine-patch of rehabbed crochet remnants

and I even had time to work on a few more, so I selected these four remnants that I had come across:

Four more crochet remnants for crochet rehab
Four more candidates for crochet rehab

I worked on them as quickly as I could, and while I didn’t finish all of them, I came close:

Three of the four crochet remnants rehabbed and ready for adventure
Three of the four crochet remnants rehabbed and ready for adventure

and as my crochet day wound to an end, I got one last group photo:

Fourteen rehabbed crochet squares and a crochet remnant waiting in the wings
Fourteen rehabbed crochet squares and a crochet remnant waiting in the wings

At two hundred and twenty-six crochet squares, I am still on the uphill climb of this particular crochet adventure, but I will move forward the only way possible: one stitch at a time.

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