Rounds all around

... and it is done! I finished it Tuesday and lovingly sent it home to the Crochet Queen via her husband who is the best handyman in the WORLD!!! Thanks to him I have a hall light that turns on and off from BOTH ends of the hall, a closet ceiling no longer threatening to cave in, and a link to another guy who does seamless gutters, thus eliminating the slight flooding of our front porch every time it rains hard. This is Louisiana. It rains. And it rains. And then it rains some more. We would like to utilize our front porch double rocker without the complimentary shower, thank you very much. Now to do something about the mosquitoes...

Anyway, back to the blanket. Crochet Queen said she went on ahead and gave it to her sister the next night and she loved it. She called it her "Old lady blanket" and Crochet Queen said "Watch it!" I laughed because it was crocheted by us two and we are a long way away from being old ladies. I love the Granny Square anyway because it looks like flowers.

As you can see there was still a ripple effect in trying to block the original diamond and get the dimensions of all sides to match. There also was a "wing" effect on the ends but putting a few rows of single crochet all around helped out. The scallop edge also was more forgiving and hid any bumps/ridges left from the attempt at blocking out the edges and done in that blue was darling. I really liked how the double rows of Granny Sqaures finished out the blanket. It really ties everything in and frames nicely, even though I didn't do it on all sides.

More Christmas projects are underway and being worked on/finished as I write. I'm really excited about some of them. Now to have them all finished before the holidays hit...