In the absence of lobster clasps, and being a bit burned out on my sister's blanket, I turned my attention to one of my long-suffering WIPs today. This is, or will be, my Square-a-day blanket, and it had very humble beginnings:
It started out on New Years Day, last year. The idea was to use my left over yarn from other projects, and to just do one small square a day. By the end of the year, I would have a pretty big blanket. Or so the theory went. I started off well, and for the first four or so months I religiously crocheted a square every day. And then life interfered a bit, and I ended up putting it down to focus on other things.... Well, other things being sorted, I was able to pick it up again on New Years Day this year, and have thus far - touch wood - not missed a day.
The plan is to do a different design for each month, so that the blanket is a sampler of different designs in all different colours. I will be joining them together in a simple double crochet stitch, and then edging in white. I have a specially hand dyed rainbow gradient to put a final border on it, when it's finally finished. I'm even being very good and weaving my ends in as I go....for once... :D
This month's design is a simple circle-in-a-square design:
I haven't decided yet whether I want to stop at 12 designs, as was the original plan, or whether I want to continue until the end of the year. The original plan would have somewhere around 365 squares (give or take - I might have to do more to make a full rectangle) whereas if I continue it would be closer to 480. I imagine it will depend on how many designs I can find that work in an 11 by 11 stitch square. The blanket is already looking pretty big though, and I'm only in the 7th month!
To make it worse, I am constantly browsing the web for more designs and patterns. At this rate, it will never actually be finished!
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