I tried to make a sweater imitating the style of the baby it's cold outside jacket featured in Crochet me magazine, except, I didn't want to make a jacket, just a sweater with as little sewing as possible.I intended to crochet from bottom back to bottom front with an increase for the sleeves and a hole for the collar, the finished fabric would have the shape of a cross.
I had a few problems...
First it looks like my daughter grew A LOT while I was constructing it, but it was ok, I improvised sides to widen it while attaching the sides of the sweater and I thought I would just lengthen the arms afterwards with a contrasting yarn.
Then it looked like the space I left in order to crochet a collar was much too HUGE, I tried to narrow it later, but it was just a hot mess.

At the moment I'm crocheting on and off a granny square sweater for my daughter : it's an inexpensive and easy project, something you can do with leftovers when waiting for the bus or at the dentist's : crochet squares (actually they're granny flowers... did I say I love flowers?) and then join them together when you've got enough of them.
With the size of the squares I've got, I computed I needed 70 to complete a sweater, by now I already have 30 crocheted.
It had me thinking I really had a lot of leftovers, so I started to research what I could do with granny squares... and, guess what? The crochet world is really a small world because this exact same question popped up in Crochetville not long ago.

So I checked the Things to do with granny squares thread in Crochetville and I retained a few ideas :

I've just finished this mini scarf with a "woven" effect.
colour : snow-white (the one I've been ranting about earlier),
yarn : sport weight acrylic,
size : about 1mX15 cm
This will be my first featured "free pattern", provided I write the pattern down and find a way to feature it in my blog...