Okay, okay, I know I wasn’t going to start another project until all my school work was finished, and the quarter was over. That really was the plan. Of course, plans change.

My daughter loved the granny square blanket I made, and promptly wrapped herself in it when I showed it to her, claiming it for her own. Of course, I had made it with the intention of keeping it for me, either on the couch for when I needed something to curl up with, or at the end of my bed(it would go well with my room, adding much needed color). I tried to explain this to her, but she wasn’t having it. We made a compromise: she would be allowed to keep my granny square blanket until I made her a blanket of her own. Sigh.

This gives me the chance to make a blanket using this wonderful pattern by Erin Lindsey. It’s a granny square blanket, but instead of lots of little squares to sew together it’s one large square. You just keep adding row after row until you think it’s large enough, changing colors as you wish. This is also another stashbuster project, helping me to use up some of the two garbage bags worth of odd yarn I was given a couple months ago.  (***Note:Erin has generously shared her pattern for free so that we might all make this fun, easy, pretty blanket. Please, if you use the pattern and mention it on your blog or wherever, give her credit as this is her original pattern.)

The pattern crochets up quickly, and is very pretty. I see myself using this again and again. It’s a lot of fun, and again simple and mindless, so I can do it while I’m watching t.v., or thinking about a  million other things. I’m hoping to have it finished in the next two weeks. Maybe she can take it on her trip to Florida this summer when she visits her grandparents.

Anyway, here’s a picture of the progress I made last night: