My Rainy Morning Blanket..... Ta-Dah

Hello Lovelies,
Eleven months ago , on a rainy May morning, I sat in the conservatory and started this colourful granny square blanket............



In THIS post I wrote about my plans for it to be a quick project and about how I was choosing the colours........



The plan was to make a colourful picnic blanket consisting of squares that contained distinct colour groups......


You can see I was being good and sewing in all my ends as I went.

Other projects distracted me including THIS blanket for middle son.

And by September I had changed my original plans and chosen to add a Denim blue border to my squares.......


I even took a few to Yarndale and enjoyed sitting on the grass outside hooking for a while.

By October almost all my squares had a blue border..........



And then they sat on top of my Welsh Dresser for a few months............



Finally, early this month , I started to join my squares. Sewing them together using THIS method.........



Once all my squares were joined I started on the border. My plan was a nice wide border to make this blanket a bit bigger, and to balance the size of the seven round squares. I was not sure exactly many rounds I planned to make ...... about ten colours and then an edge............



 Then, on Saturday evening I was talking to my Mum in Law about her Mum in Law.

My boys one remaining Great grandparent was going to turn 97 in a couple of days. Mum in law suggested I could give her a blanket and initially I said I didn't have one finished..........then I thought about it and decided I could quickly finish my Rainy Morning blanket on Sunday and wrap it up........so that's what I did..........

And here is my finished border.

I got up early on Sunday morning and  added the final Denim blue round of U.S. doubles and a round of U.S. singles to neaten. It's not the lovely wide border I had planned, but thankfully it looked O.K.

And so here are some hastily taken photos of my finished blanket.

Ta-Dah.........

Thank goodness I sewed in all the ends as I went along.

A closer look at the squares......I have lots of favourites...........

 The essential washing line shot :0)........

I do love it and I hope the oldest member of our family loves it too. I like to think all these happy colours will bring her joy.

It was lucky that the sun shone on Sunday morning as I  love to see the colours illuminated from behind like this.............

  

and I did remember to measure it before I wrapped it up. This blanket ended up 54 x 40 inches. I nice size to put over your lap.

In case you lovelies were wondering I used Stylecraft Special acrylic yarn. Double knitting weight and a 4mm hook.

For the blue border to all the squares I used Denim.

The squares themselves are made using these colours.......

Fondant , Aspen, Sherbert, Shrimp, 

Lemon, Saffron, Apricot, Spring Green

Meadow, Plum, Cloud Blue, Pomegranate,

Turquoise, Pale Rose, Candy floss, Lavender,

Raspberry, Bluebell and Lipstick

This project ended up quite different to my original plan, and took much  longer to finish than I thought it would. Now it's gone to a new home I'm happy that I made that quick decision to gift it to a lovely old lady.......

I will miss it a little, but I have the pleasure of giving , and I still get to share this project with you lovelies.I hope you like it too.
Jacquie x