I have a love/hate relationship with this blanket.... I love the colors and how it looks, but it truly is a learning piece that I'm going to have to go back and try to fix. When I made it, I had never been taught to weave the ends in, just to knot where I finished or joined other yarns. Yikes! There are a lot of knots coming undone and I may have to replace those squares... I also learned the hard way about joining the squares together. I would finish a square and single crochet it to another to form strips, and then crocheted the strips together. I made a second granny square blanket for my niece and found that if you crocheted the rows together, then crocheting back across the whole blanket ( I should draw a diagram) it holds up better over the long run, and looks better. I didn't crochet through both loops when joining the squares, just the back one, so it almost makes the squares look like 'tile' with 'grout' lines!
I love the blue and white.
You can see I'm still not perfect at getting the blanket perfectly square. I did a simple single crochet border around the edge, I think three rows?
You can see in this picture how crocheting just the back loop instead of going through both gives each square a nice definition...
This is the back of the blanket, definitely not as pretty as the front, but it works.
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