Sunburst granny blanket

I've been rather quiet on the side projects front lately because I've been beavering away on this blanket. I decided I'd make one last blanket (honestly it really is this time) and whilst researching patterns, I found this blanket on Flickr ... and completely fell in love with it. It's a crochet starburst granny square blanket (also know as a round granny square).

It took me a while to find a pattern I was really happy with and eventually went for this pattern on Tipnuts.

I really struggled with the colourway for this project - I wanted a bright blanket to liven up the house but I don't often work with bright colours. At the beginning I was playing it too safe and all my squares started to look the same., so I put some odd colours together (copper, green and pink) and it worked really well.

I used the join as you go method to crochet these squares together. However, I always leave weaving in my ends until I've finished and this time it took me about 2 weeks of evenings because I had 2042 to do!

Now I just need the weather to cool down so I can use it...also I'm starting to think we need a bigger house to put our blankets in. You can never have too many blankets, right!?!

Notes

• 6195m of wool
• 255 squares
• Wool: 'Stylecraft Special DK' 1004, 1005, 1011, 1019, 1023, 1029, 1035, 1062, 1064, 1065, 1067, 1080, 1425. The turquoise, navy and red were from my wool stash.
• Project duration: 14 weeks
• Equipment: The crochet hook you see in the photo is a Clover Soft Touch crochet hook. It has a padded thumb area and a thicker 'handle' than your standard aluminium hooks, which makes it much more comfortable to use.