It's here! It's happened!! Delia is COMPLETE :D
Remember when it was all just circles?
...and the cirlces grew and grew...
...and the piles of circles got bigger and bigger...
...and then the circles turned into squares. It started to get exciting...
...and the excitement grew at each step...
...and along with the excitement, the worry that it might not work...
...that maybe it was just too psycho...
...it required a lot of patience and persistence.
It felt giddy to be joining the last sqaure...
...and sad to find that the border colours just didn't quite reach.
But it got there eventually. It was worth it...
...and the thousands of ends just celebrated the achievement.
Now take a deep breath. Stand back and see: ta-dah!
Wow! I'm a little bit stunned. All along I worried that it was just going to be a massive mess, and all of that hard work would have been wasted. And then it got to the end, and I realised that I loved it. Strange, eh?
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It's only fair to credit all the hard work that other people put in designing the patterns and techniques I used on this:
The main pattern is Lucy's Summer Garden Granny Square
And the general gist of the composition is inspired by Lucy's Sweet Flower Granny
The border follows this brilliant crinkle-free pattern
My Ravelry project page is here
I used mostly Sylecraft Special DK (you can read more about that in my post here, although I didn't end up using all the colours listed). I also used some other balls of DK acrylic mixed in.
The finished blanket measures approx 153x108cm, with 13 large sqaures, 98 small squares and a grand total of 1002 ends. It took approximately 1 month to finish.
It's also an absolute pain in the bum to get a decent photo of the whole thing!
