Granny Blanket Finished

Last April Pip from Meet Me at Mike's invited everyone to crochet granny squares, one granny a day in May. I had never crocheted this pattern, but I wanted to give it a try. First I needed some yarn, so I recycled some old hand knitted pieces, and washed the curls out of my yarn.

I made little squares.

I made more squares, and bigger ones, after I found a nest of my wool rests. I was hooked on this, so easy to watch TV and let the hands move by themselves.

I bought some cream coloured wool to brighten up the sock-coloured squares.

And finally added some dark brown to join up the squares to a blanket. My Brown Owls crocheting badge project turned into a Brown Owls Community badge project, because this blanket will join some quilts I have been sewing, and they will be delivered to the parish's project collecting quilts, blankets and sheets for orphanages in Tanzania.

I had crocheted 80 squares but the kid size (approximately 90 x 120 cm or 36" x 44") blanket only used 63 of them. 17 orphan squares ... I still have time and yarn, maybe they will grow into another blanket like this?