A Square Granny?

I do hope I am not one of these- but I do love a neat Granny Square. Kirsten has niftily incorporated her crochet skills [way better than mine] into her patch for this month's TwoByTwo. One advantage of this latest collaboration is that we only need to exchange small envelopes each month, saving quite a lot of postage costs! Mine arrived on Tuesday, containing this set of treasures

• An English Heritage postcard - vintage picture of a horse being shod. I love that old word shod!
• One of K's handpainted watercolour bookmarks, 
• A very beautiful 'art' tin, with a sliding lid containing peppermints. Yes I know they look like aspirin. They aren't!
• The patch for the month

It is a lovely piece of purple linen [beautiful quality - I keep stroking it!] K tells me it is from a fabric sample, just large enough to do the two patches [perfect!]
The square is crocheted in leftover random dye sock yarn, with a very fine hook [previously used by her Godmother with perlé cotton to make table runners]
There is running stitch round the outer edge holding the chains in place, and in each cluster of triples, an extra stitch to hold it to the backing.
My two squares thus far have involved adding stitches to embellish printed fabric. Now I am thinking about some sort of appliqué work.
Another bonus of this project I have just learned another keyboard shortcut - if you type Alt0233 you get an accented é like this. This will prove a useful timesaver for typing French words. 

Once again, thanks Kirsten!