Mostly FO: Granny Square Blanket

 I joined the last square to my granny square blanket last night and finished weaving in all the ends. I'm rather pleased with the finished project: 

And as you can see in the following pictures, so is my mother... =)

She really should have been a model-- she's so lovely!

I'm in the process of deciding which project to start working on next... I have two lovely skeins of road to china yarn (in purple and in cream) as well as 3 skeins of Lorna's Laces Honor in "cedar." I also have about 5 balls of mulberry silk yarn, plus new sock yarn and a bunch of others.

Off to a craft fair for now!

Granny Square Progress...

I've been working rather steadily on my Granny Square blanket throughout October and November. I'm about 85% finished with it-- currently working on joining the last half of it.

Since I'm not sure how much purple yarn I have to connect the squares, I've been joining them in a way that is odd, but that will allow me to keep some semblance of symmetry. The inner squares are joined with this beautiful, deep wine colored yarn I ordered a year and a half ago, after reading about on another blog. The corners (and probably all the outside squares) are being joined with this lighter colored purple yarn I purchased at the Genesee Country Village outside Rochester, NY.

I can't wait to complete and start using this lovely blanket.

Granny Square Progress...

Knitting and crocheting is truly remarkable to me. I love possessing the ability to turn these long pieces of string (essentially):

into these little squares of joy:

I think the granny square blanket is progressing nicely... I'm aiming to make 4 squares each of 8 designs before I start attaching them to each other.

I can't wait to curl up under this thing to sip tea and read a book or knit any one of a dozen patterns I've been eyeing on ravelry.

While I do generally enjoy the process of knitting and crocheting, I'm definitely a product knitter and crocheter!