FO- I Love This Blanket!

7 weeks ago on a bit of a whim I started crocheting a new blanket. I blame Instagram! The pattern was in the then current issue of Mollie Makes magazine and quite a few people from my feed had been having a go at the squares. The centre of each square is made using Sirdar crofter yarn which is a gorgeous variated yarn that knits up to a fair isle effect. I just so happened to have 3/4 of a ball left from a previous project so i raided the stash for it and jumped right on that bandwagon



That was it I was hooked (pardon the pun!) I got 9 squares from what I had but I knew they stocked it in my local yarn shop so off I went. They didn't have a huge range of shades in stock but I purchased 4 different ones and thought that'd do me for a bit (I still had plenty other projects on the go)



I not really sure why but I became obsessed with making these. I played about with the bordering yarn and ended up using a different one from the pattern. I used Paton's Smoothie DK in cream mostly because I had a least 3 balls left over from my last blanket project



I began to really love it when the cream was added. It seemed to make the colour variations really pop! The squares soon stacked up



Time to decide exactly how big this blanket was going to be and how much more yarn I needed to order



I patiently waited for the delivery of 3 more shades, checking for the postman far too many times (you do that too right???) Dropped everything as soon as it did and raced to get them finished. I have to thank the lovely Lululovescrochet for spurring me on to the end as she was working on the same pattern and finished hers first. It was so beautiful I was desperate to finish mine.

And so in 7 weeks-165 squares, approx 11 balls of the sirdar crofter yarn and I don't really know how much of the Paton's Smoothie and it was done.
Big Ta-da










I think it might just be my most favourite crochet project ever! I completely love it and I'm keeping it all for myself x