At Last!

I know I have been promising to show you my Moogly Blanket for ages but for one reason or another I haven't been able to so here it is at last!..

I finished it in quite a hurry just before Christmas, I didn't really have time to consider how I was going to join it or what edging to use.

Putting a large blanket together does have it's challenges, I placed all the squares on the bed, stood on a stool so that I could get a bird's eye view then kept switching them around until I got the layout I was happy with.

I then sewed them in strips on the wrong side, sewed the strips together, then joined them again in dc/sc on the front. if I'd had time I would have made a cream border round each of the squares before joining but I was in a hurry to get it finished in time to gift to my daughter for Christmas. I'm pleased to say that she really loved it, it's such an interesting blanket with all the different designs and textures.  

I kept the edging very simple because of the complexity of the squares and because of the lack of time and I think it worked very well, One round of dc(sc), two rounds of htr(hdc) and a final round of crab stitch which is my favourite stitch for edging. 

I made this blanket purely out of stash yarn so I managed to bust quite a lot of my Aran stash in fact the last squares were quite a challenge because I had to go with the colours I had left.  Unfortunately I didn't have time to weigh it so I'm not sure exactly how much yarn it took.

All of the blocks I used for the blanket can be found here.

Information about the Moogly 2015 Afghan CAL can be found here.

The 2016 Moogly Afghan CAL begins on Thursday 7th January more information here, will you be taking part? I haven't decided :) 

Linking with ..

Jennifer's Winter Project Link Party

Rhondda's  Link and Share Wednesday

Lunamon Design

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