Crochet a little happiness: Granny squares for blanket

red and orange granny square

As you may recall, I have been asked to crochet a blanket for a wheelchair user.  I decided that the quickest and easiest way of completing such a big task would be to make several granny squares and stitch them together afterwards.

I am using the same colours I used in the rainbow poncho for Elise (that was the request).  I have got a comprehensive guide for which colours are going to be used, but no firm decisions as to how I am going to arrange them all yet.

red and white granny square

I was thinking about starting with red in the middle, then doing squares with all the colours of the rainbow, then joining them together and doing a red border around those squares, then doing the same thing through all the other colours.  This would mean for every 6 squares I made they would be formed into a mini-blanket which would then eventually be made up into one full size blanket.

This idea is good in theory, excpet I would be left with all the colours of the rainbow with white, and I wouldn’t have the one central colour to join them all together.  So will need to think about this little dilema.  There’s plenty of time to think about it though, as got a lot more squares to make yet.

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