About a year ago I learnt to crochet and turned into a lean, mean granny square making machine but then they lurked, quietly in a bag with possible plans to turn them into a lap blanket that never quite happened. Then, a coworker at my old job announced she was pregnant.

I pulled them and the extra yarn out and set about joining the squares up until I could start crocheting around them. And then I just did that, round and round and around at every given moment until I ran out of yarn. And then I wove in all the ends, something that took me so long that I didn’t get a chance to take a blocked photo before I gave it over to my coworker before she went off on maternity.

The yarn is Rowan Handknit Cotton and it took about 9 and half skeins using a 4.5mm hook. The joining method was Carina’s Craftblog: Granny square joining tutorial.

Cthulhu is a bold little beast. Brash, almost. You can’t see his wings so well in this picture, but they’re pretty neat in a straggly, eldergod kind of way.

Crcoheted using sock yarn and a 1.25mm hook, rather thanthe yarn they suggest. This picture doesn’t show it so well, but the eyes do gleam red at you. Took about a day or two to finish. If I do it again, I’ll probably do the tentacles on a bigger hook so they come out looser.

I do like crochet -I like the movement of it, the nice dense fabric it produces- so I hope to find more things I want to make.