I haven't blogged for ages but I've just finished a project that has inspired me to write a post!! Last weekend I had a quiet night in planned to watch my new Les Mis DVD (love it!!) and I fancied doing some crochet but not the blanket I was working on.....something new. So I had a rummage through my yarn stash and armed with a rainbow of DK scraps I headed online to search for inspiration and I hit upon it on Heather's Blog in the form of her solid granny squares.
Within minutes I had whipped up one square.....
And after an hour I had 6....
By bedtime there were 12....
And the next morning two dozen!
Then half a blankets worth...
By the end of Sunday I had almost the full complement needed and after a day at work on the Monday I had 48 squares ready and waiting.
Then came the tricky bit....deciding which colours went where! I wanted it to be seemingly random but not so random that squares of the same colour ended up together. I also wanted the colours to be fairly evenly distributed. So I layed it out....
And then jiggled it around a bit....
Until I was happy with the layout. Then I stitched it together, which probably took as much time as the actual making of the squares!!
Finally, because it's a present for a baby girl I wanted to give it a border with a splash of pink to make it extra girly.
After I took this picture, I blocked the blanket just to make sure the corners were crisp and it led nice and flat. I am just so happy with the result and would highly recommend the pattern, it's just fab!
Thanks for sticking through a bit of a long post!!
xxx
