Busting through the stash...

I'm happy to finally be joining my fellow YOPers again with a yarny post.  This past week, I finished the Granny Goes Large blanket I started in late February.  It was a super easy make.  But as it grew larger, it did start to become a bit of a drag with each round increasing the whole thing in length and width by about 2 inches.  At some point, I realized it was just too big and cumbersome, so I ripped back probably 8 to 10 rounds.  But at that point, knowing I wanted to finish it off with a bright color, I thought I should strategize the colors leading up to the border so the bold finish would look intentional.  And that meant I needed to re-crochet some rounds.  At this point I truly just wanted to be done already. 

But I took a deep breath, held steady, and stuck with it.

I'm not sure it needed so much thought, but you know...  it's what I do.  

And I was so happy when I finally finished it.  Happy to be done, for sure.  But also happy with how it turned out.

My inspiration for the bright green border came from a fellow Raveler.  I wish I was clever or brave enough to have thought of it myself.  But when I saw another blanket finished similarly (with a bit different shade), I knew that bright green was the color I was going to make my border in.

Finishing with such a fun color was a nice reward after pushing through all my frogging and re-crocheting.

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With that project finished, for some irrational reason I felt the urge to start another many-colored, hundreds-of-ends-to-weave-in project.  Lucy's Hexagon blanket at Attic 24 fit the bill.  And before I knew it, I had made four hexagons, joined them, and just like that...  another blanket was begun.

This project will likely take me a much longer time to finish than my large granny square blanket did.  I picture myself making hexagons as the spirit leads, and some day, some year, I'll have enough joined that it will be a whole blanket.  

Wish me well!