Well, I have finally finished making the required number of granny
squares – 182 to be precise! I have decided to make a blanket that is 14 x 13
squares so it’ll easily be big enough for a double bed – and that’s without a
border. I have done ten of each colourway and then two extra. The next step is
to sew in all the ends – I sew over yarn tails wherever possible but with
granny squares I always end up with bits to sew. I hate sewing.
I laid out and organised all of the squares over the festive
break. Every time I take them out of the project bag it takes a stupid amount
of time to put them all in their piles of matching squares. This time I decided
to get them all together and then thread some yarn through a corner to keep
them all together. Some are complete granny squares with all the ends sewn away and the grey border added.
There are eighteen different colourways (!) and I have used
three different colours. It really makes my eyes and brain hurt when I try to
sort them all out. I am trying to sew a batch every evening which in theory
means I’ll get through them all soon – but I just hate sewing so, so, so much. I
had wanted to get it completely sewn together by new years, but maybe I’ll aim
for new years 2021…
