Heavily modified version of Over the Rainbow square by Crafty CC from The Ultimate Granny Square Sourcebook, black and white center circle, then varying blues alternating to the outside, on a black background

Cover for Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, various blues in the background with black and white bird in flight in the center, lettering in white.

#GrannySquare 8 for #BookBlanket2026 is for Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
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Why 8? I was going to try to freehand some things to add to the center to make it a bird. And I never did. I'm finally giving up.

Pattern: Over the Rainbow Square by Crafty CC (heavily modified)
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Embrace Square by Vivid Creations from The Ultimate Granny Square Sourcebook, center out: neon yellow, red, black, red, black, on a grey background

Book cover for the audiobook version of Blood Colony by Tananarive Due, narrated by Patricia R. Floyd. A bright yellow sun is behind the black silhouette of a tree, in front of a red background. The white lettering of the title is on top of that. Below is a yellow bar with the name of the author and narrator on it, below that seem to be suggested figures of trees and possibly people also on a red background.

#GrannySquare 14 for #BookBlanket2026 is for Blood Colony by Tananarive Due
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Pattern: Embrace Square by Vivid Creations from The Ultimate Granny Square Sourcebook
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Intarsia-style crochet granny square with black background and mustard yellow embroidery of a bee on a black background

Book cover for the audio book of Living Blood by Tananarive Due, black background with a gold bee design under the white lettering of the title, with gold flecks throughout the black background, author's name in gold, "Narrated by Peter Francis James" also in gold.

#GrannySquare 13 for #BookBlanket2026 is for Living Blood by Tananarive Due.

Originally inspired by a pattern by Cara Medus and heavily modified to be the right exterior stitches and better match the bee on the cover. 🧶💙📚
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Lemons and Limes crochet granny square with alternating dark green and lime green on a black background

Book cover for Model Home by Rivers Solomon, cover is bright green with dark green for title and author name and to illustrate a two-story house with a crawly creature on the bottom right window, a huge spider crawling down to the top right window, an eye peering out of the top left window, and a fire on the roof over that window.

#GrannySquare 12 for #BookBlanket2026 is for Model Home by Rivers Solomon. Always excited to read a new book by my favourite NB author, just know they're always very heavy.
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Pattern: Lemons and Limes Square by A Yarn of Serendipity from The Ultimate Granny Square Sourcebook
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Granny Square: Spike Square by Madelenon from The Ultimate Granny Square Sourcebook, colors center out: neon yellow, orange, red, burgundy, and black, on a grey background

Audio book cover for: My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due, Narrated by Peter Francis James. Title lettering in white, author and narrator names in yellow. Over a background that looks like a savannah with trees, sunrise or sunset on the horizon, the sun yellow, with coloring going from orange to red to dark red to black as it radiates out. There are silhouettes of trees. There are also shadowy silhouettes of people scattered about, including apparently in the sky.

#grannysquare #11 for #bookblanket2026: My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due. This one was a learning process as the pattern only calls for 3 colors, should have doubled the red rows. I have a better feel for it for next time I use it. 🧶💙📚
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Pattern: Spike Square by Madelenon

Granny square: Twisted Lily Square by Crochetedbytess from The Ultimate Granny Square Guide, colors from center out: White, gold, hot pink, red, dark teal, light blue, royal blue. On a black background.

Book cover: Nine Tailed by Jayci Lee. Cover title is in white lettering with gold outline, author name in white lettering. Under the title is a white fox, with nine huge tails going upward to be the background behind the title words, swirling like ocean waves in multiple directions, with colors flowing from hot pink to red to teal to blue to green, all outlined in gold. Under the fox, the background image behind the author name is dark blue peaks suggesting mountains.

#grannysquare #10 for #bookblanket2026 is for Nine Tailed by Jayci Lee. This square was not as complex as advertised but took me 8 hours of crochet time! (Also the pink never looks pink in the photos, it's very distinct from the red irl) 🧶💙📚
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Pattern: Twisted Lily Square by Crochetedbytess

classic crochet granny square on black background, granny square is divided by color diagonally, top left is white, bottom right is yellow

cover of book Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins, top left is white with title in black letters, bottom right is yellow with secondary title and author name in black letters

Made this #grannysquare a while back last month to motivate myself to finish this book for #bookblanket2026

Honestly can't recommend it. Classism, outdated gender roles, etc., and really harmful misinformation about disease and medicine. Not every disease is psychosomatic.
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Rainbow Blossom Square by Crafty CC from the Ultimate Granny Square Sourcebook, mustard and brown for the middle colors, bluish teal and black for the outside

cover of book: The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin, intricate golden circle with shell designs surrounded by blue thatch, white lettering for the title, gold lettering for author's name

Next granny square for #BookBlanket2026 is The Kingdom of Gods by NK Jemisin. I never get tired of her writing, probably my favourite author. 🧶💙📚

Pattern: Rainbow Blossom Square by Crafty CC from the Ultimate Granny Square Sourcebook
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StoryGraph Wrap-Up for user @dataphage for January 2026 7 books, 3,237 pages, average rating 4.5 Average book length 405 pages, average tim to finish 14 days Pie chart 1: 71% fiction, 29% nonfiction Pie chart 2: 57% audio, 29% print, 14% digital Bar graph: Genres: Fantasy (2), Young Adult (1), LGBTQIA+ (1), Literary (1), Thriller (1) Includes 3 highest rated reads and their covers: The Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, The Broken Kingdoms by NK Jemisin, and The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr., all rated 5 stars. There is also a line graph of pages read per day with a point for each day, lowest at around 5 pages, highest at around 275 pages.

Excited to be reading more again! I have to admit, having to make #grannysquares for each read for #bookblanket2026 has me slowing down a bit, but I'm reading much more than I have in a long time! Thankful to #StoryGraph for their excellent book tracking and social platform 💙📚
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On black background, Kitten's Claw granny square (pattern by Designs by Muggins), with brown for center and rounds with descending front post stitches, alternating royal and navy blue betwen, with mustard yellow and black on the outside.

Cover for The Broken Kingdoms by NK Jemisin, title in silver and author's name in gold, background is a central wooden space with radiating wood spokes, with blue in between with yellow spots on it.

Next #grannysquare for #bookblanket2026 is for The Broken Kingdoms by NK Jemisin (pattern: Kitten's Claw Square by Designs by Muggins). 🧶💙📚

I'm really pleased with how this one turned out. I love NK Jemisin so much and excited to finish this series.
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Ring Around the Rosy granny square pattern by TurtleBunny Creations in metallic blue, black, gold, and white yarn on a grey background

Book cover for The Blue Bar: A Blue Mumbai Thriller by Damyanti Biswas. Title in yellow, subtitle and author name in white letters, on a background of varying shades of blue and black sequins, a few with blood on them.

Next Granny Square for #BookBlanket2026 : The Blue Bar by Damyanti Biswas 💙📚🧶

I already had this shiny yarn (metallico from Hobbii) and thought it was perfect to reflect the sequins on the cover that are also so central to this noir mystery
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Next Granny Square for #BookBlanket2026 : The Prophets By Robert Jones, Jr. This book was so amazing and poetic and heartbreaking, no granny square could ever do it justice. I did what I could with the cover and my limited skills. 💙📚🧶
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Book 3 for #bookblanket2026 is The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin

For The Time Being™️, I have decided to do non-fiction in classic granny squares and fiction in fancy granny squares. This may change as the project goes on, this was a beast! 🧶💙📚
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Book 2 for #bookblanket2026 is The Nuremberg Tool Trial by Ann Tusa and John Tusa

I tried something a little different this time, less symmetrical, more like the cover, it will vary by book 🧶💙📚
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First granny Square for #bookblanket2026 is for A Drop of Midnight by Jason Diakité 🧶💙📚
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