I finally finished my granny square afghan ! It took me 40 hours or so to complete it over the course of two months! It feels like such an accomplishment to finish one! My aunt loves it, she says "It's beautiful and matches my living room perfectly!" ...Makes it worth every hour I spent working on it!!
Check out my post about how I began this project for type of yarn and colors used.
I just love the randomized layout of the squares! I'll let you know a secret, it was less random and more planned out than you might think! I started out by making an equal number of squares in each color, but after I had made about 2/3rds of the squares I would need, I spaced them out on the floor to check how the layout would look. I actually made a LOT more tan squares than colored squares so as to spread the color out nicely without making it look like a checkerboard. I filled in most of the blank spaces in this photo with tan colored squares :
I attached the squares together using a slip stitch method. In the past I have always sewed my squares together with a yarn needle, but I really like the dimension that slip stitch joining adds to the blanket.
You can see the raised edges around each square better in this picture:
I made 88 squares total for this blanket to get the size I wanted. The finished size is 45"x61" actually a little bigger than the size I was going for! :)
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