And I thought to myself, "Well, it needs to be substantial enough, with lots of colours...." so I decided on six colours. I've done stripey blankets before, so I decided on granny squares. I found a neat pattern on Ravelry called Around the World Crochet Quilt, and therefore went forward with my 13x13 blanket. 13x13=169 squares. That's a lotta squares. A lot a lot. I started this back in March, with the baby due in May. I have to admit, I slacked a bit, especially when we went to LA. But all in all, it didn't take too long to make all the squares. I was still working on it when Aodhan was born (May 10), but I finished the squares soon after. Don't they look pretty?
And I thought to myself, "Goody! The tough part is over!" All that was left was to sew them together. Easy peasy, right?
Oh. My. God. Wrong. First, I needed to sew them into 13 strips. It took me over an hour to do one strip. So 13 hours later, I had 13 strips that still needed to be sewn together. But that should be easy enough, right? No stopping and starting at ends?
Oh. My. God. Wrong. To sew one strip to another took OVER an hour. Aye Caramba! But I missed my first deadline anyway (seeing him at 2 weeks old), so I worked to my new deadline (seeing him at 2 months old). Sew sew sew. Sew sew sew.
I finally finished sewing it together and it looked bloody fantastic!!!!!!!!
I quickly added a thin red border around it (once again thinking, "Oh this part should be easy", and once again, being totally wrong), and voila!
Slightly blurry!
pre-sewn, foolishly thinking I was almost finished! Ha!
All in all, I'm very pleased with the results, but very finished to see the end of it! Now on to something for meeeeeeeeeeee!
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