"Two Shades Of Grey!"

Do you remember many weeks ago, my late night light-bulb-moment? Let me jog your memory a little, the Japanese flower scarf that was a disaster, that I decided to turn into a granny square blanket....... Remember...... Well here is a progress report on it and I must say I am super happy delighted with the way it is developing.... 

 

Japanese Granny Square

The squares are gorgeous, I chose two shades of grey and alternated them so some squares ended dark and some ended light... and I used every third petal to turn the round flower into a square - absolutely gorgeous - me thinks!

  

The turning of flowers into squares went  really quickly.  I was so very happy with my idea and in no time at all I had managed to do a neat pile of Japanese Granny Squares( this is what I have decided to call them)

Little Helping Hands

Beautiful Late Afternoon Sun

Once they were all done I laid them out on the floor, made sure no two squares  of the same colour were next to each other, pinned them and began to crochet them together. 

 

I had seen a really lovely way to join a blanket together in a magazine and decided to try it out. There was no pattern for it so it was literally a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants thing. It was a simple zigzag and to crochet up the lengths was pretty easy, and I thought that I could just work the widths in the same way....... mmmmm.... not to be!  It was not a perfect square so I had to work slip stitches up some of the zigzags in order for it to work, weeeelll it did not work out to be perfect zigzags both ways but it still looks really nice as you can see from below......

Perfect Zigzags



Not so Perfect Middle - Can You See, Bottom Right Corner.....

 



Once it was all crocheted together I began to work neat little Granny Clusters around and around and around and ...... well you get the idea....

Granny Clusters

Looking More Like A Blanket

 

To get the picture above, I had to balance precariously on a chair, as the blanket is getting too big to stand on the ground and get the whole thing in.  I must say I am totally in love with this blanket(as I am with ALL the blankets I make) It really has been an accidental blanket considering that it all started out many many moons ago as a eternal scarf and then was banished to my craft room for many months, but I do love these flowers, I love the pattern and shape and think that they deserve to be gorgeously on display! My think in using the two shades of grey(LOL my very own  - Two Shades of Grey!!) was that it would be a neutral hue behind all the warm and pretty pinks and purples I made the flowers with! I think it has worked out PERFECTLY!

 

Two Shades Of Grey!

So  now I am madly crocheting, every gap I get, I rush to my blanket and madly hook a few rows. I want it all done for Winter, because as I look at the long shadows that are forming outside every afternoon, I know that the cool season is fast approaching.... So my "Two Shades of Grey" Blanket is going  to be coming in very very handy! Watch out a BIG Ta Dah moment coming soon xxx 

 

PS:: I added the two pictures below. today we played tent-tent again and all the crochet blankets came out! I am always very pleased when Little Madame drags out all the crochet blankets! She always says they are soft and cuddly ....... What more could I ask for xxx