Grannies going in circles

I really don't know how I happened upon the picture.

Following  a link,

after following a link, I suppose....

But once I saw it,

there was no going back.

For days,

it was all I could think about.

When I wasn't installing hardwood floors, or quilting,

that is.

Maybe it wasn't days;

maybe it was only 2 days,

or 1 long day.

I really don't know.

All I know

is

.

.

.

I had to make make one.

So.

Because I am very responsible

and not at all impulsive,

I pulled out one of the few skeins of yarn that we own

(you may remember that I quilt - but I am not so great with the yarn arts)

chose a properly sized hook from my extensive (not) collection,

and 

(after watching portions of 3 different how to make granny squares
with circle center (aka sunburst) videos)

I sat down on the the couch

while we watched an episode of Hart of Dixie,

and Tyler kept glancing over and laughing at me,
and

I crocheted the center portion of a circle-centered granny square!

Oh. My.

That was not right at all!!

I thought it was a little ruffly as I was working on it,

but figured maybe it would smooth out?

The rest of the show,

I kept looking over at my granny square dollhouse lampshade
and laughing myself.

I obviously did something veeeeery wrong....

But I was determined to make one of these amazing blankets for myself,

so,
undeterred,
I went back to the video

(I'd selected the shortest one.

because that meant a quicker project, right?)
and discovered that I had 'chained one'
36 times
where I wasn't supposed to.

That was all.... I could do this.....

After I tucked Tyler into bed,
I watched the video again,
this time, working right along with it
(ok. so maybe I had to keep pausing it....
whatever.)
and I made a real center
of a circle-centered granny square.

Thoroughly convinced that I could do this,
I went out the very next day
and  bought a bit of proper yarn
(after consulting with Ashlee
as to what, exactly I should buy...)

what??! You know I need all the fabrics yarns....

I'm thinking of adding an extra round
(making it a great granny square)
(Crocheters - is there any reason why that wouldn't work??)

because then my squares would be bigger,

so I'd need fewer of them,

and I could more quickly get this out of my system
and get back to quilting.

(This isn't actually taking away from quilting,
except for maybe my very long term EPP,
but I have already been avoiding that
 because of paper size/shape problems,
so having no binding or hand-quilting right now,
I've just been watching our somewhat nightly show
empty-handed.
gasp.)

Oh! I remember!
One of my sweet nieces sent me a link on FB.
which ultimately led to the photo above,
which started this whole thing.