Monday 27 May 2013

The One Week Blanket

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