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C Welcome to our 2022 Granny Square Day issue! Try one of the granny square-themed makes inside or find a motif in our booklet of 52 brand-new squares. Then, join us online on 15 August for our GSD celebrations! 0\ZRUïXdVaU me on p31! ISSUE ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY SIX CONTENTS 26 FloWer MotIf BloUse ChequErboarD ColleCtion P14 EXCITING CROCHET IDEAS TO INSPIRE YOU Cover ssttaarr!! 14 CHEQUERBOARD COLLECTION 55 HOOK TO HOOK: GRANNY 26 FLOWER MOTIF BLOUSE SQUARE HOMEWARES 31 AMIGURUMI CROCHETING GRANNY 59 ANIMAL PLANT POTS 41 EMBELLISH: UPCYCLE A BIKINI TOP 62 GRANNY SQUARE SCARF 43 STRIPED BABY BLANKET 67 TALAVERA BLANKET CAL 45 GRANNY SQUARE JACKET 69 MACRAMÉ AND CROCHET HANGING 53 BOTANICAL CUSHION 71 INDIE DYE LOT: SCARFLET 43 Granny square makes on p55 53 45 41 62 granNy sqUare Scarf 72 69 macrAmé hanginG GOOD READS HOW TO… 09 HOOKED 36 SUBSCRIBE 38 JOURNAL: TONI LIPSEY Never miss an issue! 59 50 PROFILE: JO BUNCLARK 74 YARN REVIEWS 64 FEATURE: A VISIT TO THE Find the best neon yarns! YARN BOMBING FESTIVAL 78 CROCHET UNRAVELLED 76 SHOW US YOURS! How to join your granny squares 90 FAVE FOLLOW: 83 THE GUIDE What's new on social Essential step-by-steps for you yarN Simply Crochet ISSN 2051-5693 (USPS XXXXX) (Issue August, Issue 126) is published monthly with an extra copy in November by Our Media Ltd (an Immediate Group Company), Eagle House, Bristol, BS1 4ST United Kingdom. reViews The US annual subscription price is $160. Airfreight and mailing in the USA by agent named World Container Inc., c/o BBT 150-15, 183rd St, Jamaica, NY 11413, USA. Periodicals postage paid at Brooklyn, NY 11256. P74 US POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Simply Crochet, World Container Inc., c/o BBT 150-15, 183rd St, Jamaica, NY 11413, USA. Subscription records are maintained at Our Media Ltd./Immediate Media Bristol Ltd., Eagle House, Bristol, BS1 4ST United Kingdom. Granny Square Day Welcome to our Granny Square Day issue! We’re Editor Sara Huntington Art Editors Kimberly Price, delighted to pay hommage to the wonderful, versatile Claire Watkins, Jude Curle granny square in all its glorious forms. Get started Production Editor Alison Maney Technical Editor Paula Green on our pretty sunny day top on page 26 or a mohair Editorial and Digital Assistant Claudia Trotman scarf on page 62, or check out our all-new granny Cover Photography Steve Sayers Photography Dave Caudery, Kadan Gardener, Gavin Roberts, square supplement for more fun motif designs. We’ve Steve Sayers, Jesse Wilde even got our own crocheting amigurumi granny on AdvErTisInG page 31! Don’t forget to join us on 15 August on Call 0117 300 8206 Instagram by taking a photo of your own square and Group Advertising Sales Manager Penny Stokes Business Development Manager UK and International posting it with the hashtag #GrannySquareDay2022. Rachael Hawkins And please share your makes on Instagram, tagged #sctreblemaker, or on our Facebook group, Simply MarKeTing & SubScRipTions Crochet SCtreblemakers, as we love to see them. Senior Direct Marketing Executive Kate Jones CirCuLatIon Head of Newstrade Marketing Martin Hoskins ConTrIbuTors Newstrade Marketing Manager Janine Smith International Account Manager Richard Jefferies ProDuCtiOn Meet the talented designers whose patterns feature in this issue... Senior Production Co-ordinator Lizzie Ayre Production Managers Rose Griffiths, Siân Rodgers Group Production Manager Louisa Molter Production Director Sarah Powell BuyIng Team Karen Flannigan LicEnSing Director of International Licensing & Syndication Tim Hudson PubLiShiNg Publisher Charlotte Morgan “I particularly love being creative “Crochet is my number one Managing Director of Craft, Gardens & Homes Marie Davies with colour and texture” passion in life!” Managing Director, Bristol Andy Marshall Executive Chairman Tom Bureau SubScRipTions BECKY SKUSE MARIANNE RAWLINS Becky is a crochet designer and teacher – and Colourwork fan Marianne loves getting Call 03330 162 146 or subscribe online at a compulsive smiler! She’s been working with the graph paper out to create cute instaria www.buysubscriptions.com/craft Simply Crochet for 10 years creating patterns characters, from lobsters to sausage dogs. and tutorials. See her hanging on page 69. Check out her blanket on page 14. Need to get in TouCh? EDITORIAL TEAM [email protected] SUBSCRIPTIONS TEAM www.buysubscriptions.com/contactus 03330 162 146 Next IssUe on Sale Tues 6 SepTeMber No gift included? Ask your newsagent. Covergift may be unavailable overseas. “Learning from mistakes is the best “Crochet is my way of life!” way to discover new possibilities” MARINA RUSSO AMY OVERBURY S hhoopp Marina is the designer and natural fibre Amy is a self-taught crocheter who loves to llooccaall enthusiast behind Bloodimaryart. Crochet is share all things crochet. She regularly hosts her medium for creative self-expression. workshops and is always writing new patterns. Find her botanical cushion on page 53. Discover her scarflet on page 72. The copyright in the patterns in this magazine are owned by or licensed to Our Media Ltd (an Immediate Group Company) and are for readers’ personal use only. Please do not share them online (even for free) or copy them multiple times without our permission. 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