Squares for a Blanket

Regular readers will be familiar with me saying things like "I've been knitting some blanket squares..." as I've been knitting squares to use up random bits of yarn for aaaages.

I had a stash of knitted squares (some large, some slightly smaller) and some balls of yarn leftover from when I was into knitting in my late teens, so a couple of years ago I resolved to knit up all the yarn and finally turn the squares into a couple of blankets.

Well, after many hours of relaxing knitting I finally have enough of the large squares to make a blanket! Woohoo!

Once I've got the layout of these planned out - and once I've finished sewing my sky blanket squares together - I shall start the slow process of sewing this blanket together.

Putting a blanket together from a big pile of squares can be a bit of a dull process (especially weaving in all those ends! yawn!) but it's sort of exciting too as it gets bigger and bigger. I'm very much looking forward to having an actual blanket instead of a box full of squares after all this time.

Scraps and Supplies

I've been working on some colourful new things... here are some of the leftover scraps:

I can't show them to you yet, but I thought you'd like to see some of the bright supplies I've been using to make them. 

Embroidery threads...

... sewing threads...

... and (of course) lots of colourful felt:

P.S. I scheduled a few posts in advance this week and for some reason Blogger posted this one a few days too early! Oops! Apologies to anyone who has already had this post pop up in their blog reader / email / etc, and sorry if you left a comment on the earlier post that has now vanished. Not the most organised way to start off the year, huh? :)

The Last Sky Blanket Square

Amazingly, given how grey and rainy it's been this past week or so, the last square of my sky blanket is a blue and white one:

Christmas day was mostly grey and wet, but the skies cleared as midday approached and I got my wish for a bit of blue to finish the blanket. Hurrah!

Possibilities

Oh, the possibilities of a fresh new year... and of new pads of paper!