Kismet, perhaps?

I don’t know, but maybe. This post is quite referential.

A few weeks ago a nice woman (Kerryanne in the Netherlands) added me as a contact in Flickr. Curious, I looked around her photos (she takes quite nice photos) and read her blog. One thing I found was a picture of a flowered granny square that I loved which quickly turned into the new afghan I’m making. I’m nothing if not a sucker for daisies, my favorite flower, so it was no surprise this caught my eye.

She also referenced a project called share a square in the description of that flowered square. This is a particularly great project that you should check out, the brainchild of a woman right here in Texas (Shelly) who’s gathered granny squares from all over the world to make granny square afghans show some love to some kids with cancer. Each afghan will be made of squares from all different people. Now, y’all know that I’m also nothing of not a sucker for a do-gooder project, particularly ones with a lot of heart. So what could I do but sign up?

This isn’t the last time you’ll hear about this project and its details, but for now, I’ll just show you this box of squares I recently got from Shelly. Nice, eh? What I’ve volunteered to do is rim a lot of these in black and then stitching them together to make the afghan. Shelly’s even left me a space to add my own square!

I also volunteered my mother-in-law to put one together, of course, since she’s the woman who taught me to crochet. If there’s time, I’ll do more than one. I like this project.

Just so we can come back around full circle, do you see that purple square peeking out from under the pink square in the picture? [errata: hers is actually the one right on top, the first one I saw when I opened the box, right under the envelope.  Where was I looking?]. Guess whose granny square that is? It’s one of Kerryanne’s squares, in fact, the same person who showed me the project in the first place. Of the thousands of squares Shelly’s gathered, I get one of hers!

Quite cool.