Crochet fail

I thought I could get away with a shortcut. It failed.

You see, I thought I could get away with sewing my squares together without blocking them first . I could not.

I thought that by sewing them together their bulgy square shape would miraculously turn into flat straight edged squares, once tethered to its neighbour. They did not.

These are just the strips. I didn’t take a photo of the strips sewn together. I was too cross.

I wondered about just blocking the blanket, right at the end but I knew I couldn’t be sure.

So late last night I carefully released each square from it’s neighbour. It was tricky as I had obviously used the same yarn to sew the squares together. I cut the wrong strand only twice.

I know I can pull the corners out and they will stretch into shape. They have a high percentage of wool content so they should block. I have to work out what to pin them to when drying. Any ideas without going out and buying something? I have 25 squares. Ideally I would like to do them in just 2 or 3 lots. I’ve no patience for one or two at a time.

If this fails I’m going to have to crochet some small diamonds to go where the corners of the squares join to prevent the distortion of the blanket. It’s not a look I was striving for but it might rescue the blanket.

To calm my beating heart I’ve started a simple stash busting colour block cushion.

I’m loving how this is turning out.

Love, Lucie xx