Art of Crochet squares 4, 5 & 7 - v2.0

Having subscribed and fallen massively behind with T.A.O.C. I have the chance to see what's coming up & what repeats etc. With this information I decided to re-crochet some of the more repetitive squares and jiggle about with what substitutes for what. So, with this in mind here are squares 4, 5 & 7 again.

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The original 4th square was plain DC (US) with a cross stitch diamond embroidered in the centre. Blah. While I liked the granite sttich I used on my original sub, I thought the whole design more suited to sub for some of the later squares. So I used "Diamond in a square" from 200 Crochet Blocks by Jan Eaton. I omitted the last round to keep the required 13cm size.

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Square 5 was another embroidered cross stitch which I replaces with bobbles and worked using a 3.5mm hook. After crocheting a lot more squares I realised I wanted them all to be made using a 4mm hook. So. I frogged and re-crocheted using said 4mm hook and so a new square 5 was made.

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Again, the original square 7 was embroidered, but I chose a different square from 200 Crochet Blocks. Decided to frog & simplify the design so that it was more in keeping with the original embroidered star square and to re-crochet using a 4mm hook. I used the original granite stitch + tiny star sub design from square 4 and will use this for all repeat squares.

I'm happier now that I have my subs set up so that when a repeat crops up I know what I'm doing and haven't got to find a new square. I've pretty much seen all the squares that will be crocheted now so I'm all good. In an O.C.D. sort of way.