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...

I've just found a new online crochet course :
hassdesign.com
They mostly use diagrams, which is OK with me (no more language problem) and mostly talk about filet...

Which I don't like.

I'm really not fond of filet crochet, I've seen some wonderful masterpices, but most of the time I find filet plain ugly and I think the method is boring : squares, squares, squares again... However, they propose a filet based on triangles, not squares, and this really seems very original.