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Update on Sunflower Granny Square Blanket and Cool Community Garden

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This post is an update on the June 27th post Update on Sunflower Granny Squares and an Agriculture Report, and I wanted to share a cool community garden I stumbled across.

Sunflower Granny Square Blanket Progress

I’ve completed 21 blocks for the sunflower themed crochet blanket I am working on. Here they are on the “design carpet”.

Here is a close up of one of the blocks:

I am using 6 different yarns: a variegated brown for the center of each flower; 3 different yarns for the petals in oranges and yellows; a green for the “partially opened flowers”; and an oatmeal for the background.

It’s been fun coming up with different color combinations (but making sure they still sort of resemble sunflowers) as I work on it. I might add a 4th petal yarn if I find another one in my stash that works.

I think I will make 100 granny squares and I’ve already started 20 more centers to make my next round of 20 or so.

Cool Community Garden

I was killing time before my dentist appointment last week and went for a little walk in the area near the dentist office, and discovered a cool community garden at an apartment complex.

I am not sure how it works and how the apartment community residents split up the harvest but here are some photos from my walk around of the garden (and I was smiling the whole time).

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23 thoughts on “Update on Sunflower Granny Square Blanket and Cool Community Garden”

  1. What a beautiful sunflower blanket this will be. Lovely choices on the colors of yarns. I can’t wait to see it finished. Also, my daughter Kelly impart of a community. garden in Jerome, AZ and she has a raised bed there. She donates some time there to help maintain the garden and they all share the beauty and abundance of flowers and veggies. Nice pics.

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  4. I’m impressed by the flowers you are growing in yarn! I really love this blanket. It’s cheerful. And the real world garden was a surprise smile, I see! And lastly I hope the dentist appointment went smoothly.

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  6. Your sunflower blocks are so beautiful! I love the yarns you chose, and your stitching is lovely 🙂 Just like a real field of sunflowers! And what a cool community garden that complex has!

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