Happy Scrappy Blanket

This scrappy blanket was started back in 2018. It's been picked up and put back down again many times since then but I've thoroughly enjoyed the times when I have been working on it.

It's made up entirely of hand dyed yarn. There's leftovers from other projects I've made, mini skeins I've bought, mini skeins from the advent calendars I've purchased at Christmastime and yarn I've swapped. There's one hundred and forty squares in total, ten by fourteen, which makes it a nice sized lap blanket.

I followed the Coziest Memory pattern by Kemper Ray for the squares. It's a free pattern on Ravelry. I've arranged the squares so that the mitre ridge running through the centre of each square radiates out from the centre of the blanket. The pattern of the ridges is something to consider right at the start of the project as it will affect the way that stitches are picked up for each square. I know many people who haven't given it a thought and then discovered that the ridges go off in all sorts of directions. 

The pattern I used doesn't mention the edges of the blanket but I decided to add an I-cord border, I think it just finishes it off.

It's nice to get a long term project off the needles but I'm feeling a little bereft now, I can see me casting on another in the not too distant future. Just look at all those colours, I think I shall call it my Happy Scrappy Blanket.