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L-Grannies

L-Grannies are made from single-round granny squares.  For the afghan described here, I used 1260 of them.  That sounds like a lot, but it's perfect for a scrap afghan, or to do from primary colours in purpose.  L-grannies can be made into a number of larger shapes and combined into patterns for a number of creative looks.

L-grannies come in 3 basic varieties:

1) corner square made from 3 of one colour and 1 of a second colour

2) left L-granny made from 4 of one colour and 2 of a second colour

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3) right L-granny made from 4 of one colour and 2 of a second colour.  (The only difference between 2 and 3 is the whether the "L" opens left or right.  It matters for some patterns.)

These blocks can be combined in a number of ways to create larger blocks and patterns.

4 corner squares can be combined to create 1 larger square:

4 L-grannies can be combined to create 1 larger square.  (You can fill in the central space with an extra single-round granny or leave open.)

L-grannies can be stacked into rows in stripes.  They look a bit like F's or E's

L-grannies can be combined, one left and one right, to form a U-shape.

They can also be combined to form s-patterns.

Or you can combine them, as I did, doing stripes of U's and stripes of "F"'s.

Since I was making mine from scrap yarn, I used solids for the main "colour" and the variegated for the secondary "colour".  I expect this pattern would look really sharp in black and white.

When you're done, add a little border to tidy up the edge.

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