Finally finished!!

I feel like I should have unlocked some sort of achievement or something, as I finally finished my blanket yesterday. It took me 60 days altogether, from Jan 29th to March 30th, and it is huge. My son absolutely loves it, and if I didn't put my foot down he would be trailing it all over the house!!

All in all, one very happy Mum.

Creeper blanket!!!!

Ok, so I started this blanket on January 29th. I really wanted it finished by March 29th (tomorrow). When I first told Damien I would have it finished by today, the plan was for a total of 100 squares, 165cm in each direction. Easy peasy - just do 2 squares a day and it'll be done in 50 days!! Since then, however, Damien has told me he wants his name on it. Given how much of the blanket I had already done by that point, all I could do was add his name to the existing blanket, making it much bigger - 180 squares, and around about 250cm by 200cm. Yowzers - that is HUGE!! So, I stepped up the pace, some days doing 10 squares in a day. Now I have carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands, serious muscle aches in my fore arms, and near constant eye strain. >.<

Well, the blanket won't be finished today. It is technically finished, in that all the squares are completed and sewn together, the stray threads are weaved and snipped, and - if I do say so myself - IT. LOOKS. AWESOME. However, now that it's finished, the raw edges have got a strange sort of scalloped look, and I don't like it. So, the plan has evolved yet again, and I am about to add an edging. Never one to do anything by halves, the edging is going to be 7 rounds. Yay for crazy amounts of extra effort!

This is the blanket as it stands now:

Sooooo close to finishing...

No photo today, but I am SOOOO close to finishing the blanket it is unreal... I am getting so antsy! Heheh.

So, I have completed 175/180 squares, and will likely have the last 5 finished tonight. 'Course, I then have to stitch them together, tidy up the loose ends and straighten the edges of the squares before I even *think* about an edging or border, which I have already decided I am going to do.

Still, it's not bad - I started on the 29th January, and am looking to be finished by the 29th March... Two months for a blanket that has so far used up twenty-five 100g balls of yarn, and is big enough to spread across a full sized double bed. I am feeling very proud of myself at the moment... =^.^=

120/180 squares

I am officially two-thirds done with the blanket, which is brilliant. Progress has been slow lately as I made the letter squares for his name, and it took 9 mini-squares to make one full-sized square, but I'm finally done. I will post photos of that soon.

In the meantime, this it what the blanket looked like on the 13th March:

I am aiming to have it completely finished by the 29th, so that it only took me two months, and I can start out April with a new - more colourful - project....

One HUNDRED squares!!

I finally reached the end of the Creeper face! I still have another 80 squares before I'm done, (the finished design will look a bit like a demotivational poster!), but this is an exciting milestone.

Now I need to stitch them together vertically and tidy up the loose ends before I move onto the black background and his name. ^^

Definitely feeling very pleased. :)

Creeper blanket - 70 squares!

So...I took almost 2 weeks off after a marathon crochet session killed my hands and left me a bit burned out. Back to it now though, and this is what the blanket looked like this morning: