St. Patrick's Day Granny Square

So I only had one skein of Caron Simply Soft in dark sage, and I really wanted to make something for St. Patrick's Day. So I decided to make a mini-afghan, or I guess you could call it a chair back. Anyway, I wanted to make something to drape over our beat-up, kind of yucky couch to make it pretty and festive. Anyway, the pattern for the squares is below. I hope it makes sense; I often write patterns in my own special short-hand, so it might have some confusing parts. I made 9 (the skein could have made 10, but I thought a 5x2 would look weird), then whip stitched them together. If you had two skeins of the green, you could definitely make 20 and do a 5x4, which might actually serve to keep someone warm. For the white, I used a big skein of baby sport weight, and just crocheted a little loosely. It would probably work better if you had the Caron brand of white, or at least a similar soft, acrylic worsted weight.

CLOVER SQUARES (the center is based off this pattern, but I made some adjustments)

Using an I (5.5mm) hook

1) w/ green MR8sc, slst
2)ch3, 2dc S, ch3, sk 1sc; {3dc in next, ch3, sk 1sc}3times, slst 3rd ch of beg ch3
3)ch3, dc S, dc, 2dc, {ch3, 2dc in next dc, dc, 2dc} 3 times, dc in 3rd ch of beg ch3
4) (slst, ch1, slst) around joining dc, sk sc, 5dc, slst, 5dc, sk sc { (slst, ch1, slst, ch1, slst) in ch3sp, sk sc, 5dc, slst, 5dc, sk sc} 3 times, (slst, ch1) around joining dc, insert hook in joining dc-sp, YO w/ white and complete slst
5)ch7, tr same sp, ch3, sc top 1st shell, ch3, sc 2nd shell, ch3, * (tr, ch3, tr) in ch3 sp, ch3, sc top 1st shell, ch3, sc top 2nd shell, ch3**; rep * to ** 2 more times; sl st in 4th ch of beg ch7
6)sl st into sp, ch3, (2dc, ch3, 3dc) in space, ch 1, {3dc in next ch3 sp, ch1} 3 times; * (3dc, ch3, 3dc) in corner sp, ch1, {3dc in next ch3 sp, ch1} 3 times**; rep * to ** 2 more times; sl st in 3rd ch of beg ch3
7)slst in next 2 dc and corner sp, ch3, (2dc, ch3, 3dc) in sp; work around square (3dc, ch1) in every ch1 sp, (3dc, ch3, 3dc, ch1) in every ch3/corner sp; slst 3rd ch of beg ch3
8)work as R7
9)slst in next 2 dc, insert hook in corner sp, YO w/ green, complete slst, work as R7 beginning with first ch3, FO