Yesterday the day started out bright and sunny and then some clouds came and lingered on with some rain for almost the whole day, and I enjoyed every single minute of it. I spend the day working on my little squares for my new blanket. I decided to call it this one Stained Glass. All of the different colors remind me of stained glass windows so there you have it.
You can see I am weaving in my ends as I go. I find this to be so much more enjoyable when I near the end and do not have that dreadful feeling of being almost done but still have to spend hours weaving the ends in.
A few colors are still missing. I may have to pop over to the craft store today and get a regular orange color and a regular purple, maybe a magenta as well. I am using Lion Brand Vanna's Choice and Vanna Baby, 100% acrylic, this is the yarn I use for most of my projects.
So for now I am working on stacking up the colors. I have not decided how big this will be yet. I do not want it to be too small that it will not get any use. My main goal was to use this as a way to de-stash but as I already said I need to go buy some colors I already ran out of! Angie's version for her daughter was 10 by 16 squares, I am thinking maybe 12 by 16 which is a total of 192 squares, or 13 by 16 for a total of 208 squares.
This is a holiday weekend here in the USA called Labor Day. Time has gone by so quickly I did not realize the holiday weekend was already here. The holiday weekend means no school Monday! I hope you are having a great weekend and a great holiday weekend for those of you in the USA.
Have a fabulous Sunday,
xoxo Susan
Looks like it will be beautiful
ReplyDeleteIt is looking beautiful. I agree with you on working the ends in right away. I always do that so I am not stuck with it at the very end when I just want to be done and on to something else. It is cloudy today, I am loving it. I spent two solid hours knitting a scarf watching baseball. Bliss.
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This is looking gorgeous, Susan. Yes, I saw Angie's blanket and loved the joining effect too - another to add to the to-do list, which gets longer and longer every week!
ReplyDeleteJane x
Love this! I have an award for you on my blog!
ReplyDeleteJust found you through another blog..glad I did. I think your color choices are awesome. Have great weekend.
ReplyDeleteSo good to have found you via crochet attic today! What a great crochet blog you have here! Congrats on the PhD. Have my masters in education and may take that leap one day myself... eventually. Happy day to you!
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