Let's get together ...

... yeah! yeah! yeah!

Which has got nothing to do with my post but being so easily distracted, one thing lead to another and having decided on my title I got a bit carried away.

I think I've been doing a very tricky, cryptic, crossword, or perhaps it was a complicated jigsaw - no, I'm actually wrong on both counts because my hooky stick and wool were involved.

I have been putting together the squares that I've AT LAST managed to crochet for a blankie.


I was so-o-o inspired by Lucy at Attic 24 that I started way back earlier this year to make my own Granny squares. I didn't realise however, exactly how many I would need to make a blankie of a DECENT size and it never seemed to get any bigger no matter how many squares I made so I decided to stop at 60 and set them out carefully to see what they would look like if they were put together.

It's more difficult than it looks [or at least for me] to make it look like a RANDOM pattern, especially when you don't want to repeat a square in an adjacent or diagonal position. However, I managed eventually and returned to Lucy for a tutorial on how to put the squares together.

This has proved MOST problematic and the pieces went all twisty-turny and somehow developed a mind of their own. In fact, I very nearly gave up so drew a nice little diagram and thought I was almost there.


Trouble struck again when I was 'reading' [loose term] the design I'd done. I'd drawn it as left to right but realised that I was putting it together right to left. Aargh!

I know that as it's my first 'real' crochet project, having only ever made edgings and flowers before that, it's something that may just get better with practice but I'm so exhausted by the whole experience, am not sure I'll be making another crochet blankie too soon.

Thanks for visiting ...