I started this project before the move and finished it last week. I chose colors meant to match the interior of a guest room where I stayed at a house with H.E. in Maryland. Our hostess was just so nice, I really wanted to make something for her.

I had intended for it to be bigger than its slightly larger than 3′ x 4.25′ dimensions, possibly a small blanket or a full-size afghan, instead of the lap-sized afghan that it is. I certainly bought enough yarn to make it three times bigger. But honestly, creating the little granny squares was so tedious and time-consuming, H.E. was eager to see me work on something different, and our trip back to Maryland seemed to loom so closely, that I finally relented and stitched together what squares I already had and finished it off.

The irony is, we’ve moved our trip so I have more time now; I could have used up all the yarn and made it a blanket.

Next time I do a project like this, I’m sticking with larger squares and a more varied color pattern so I can work on the individual squares longer and don’t get bored putting them together. Heck, I probably could have done a handful of hats and scarves in the time it took me to do this one thing, just because it took me so long to weave in all the yarn ends of each color of each square, et cetera.

I am not sure about stitching the squares together with a slip stitch. I wasn’t happy with the regular stitching I did for my cat’s blanket, but I’m not altogether happy with the slip stitching either. While it’s nice I don’t have to give up the crochet needle and the endless yarn feed, I don’t like how the stitching sticks out in the back.

Egad, look at me. I’m a regular Suzy Homemaker.

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