Here is the sampler afghan. I started it last year; posting four squares a week. It grew quickly. It was going to be 200 squares randomly joined but I soon realized that I would need to cut it short. Putting it together was going to be a nightmare and the blanket itself would be enormous. Here are some photos
of the beginnings of it. Â Then I started blocking it and the squares look so much better.
I tried several different border colors. I wasn’t fond of this one.
I tried a multi- color yarn and I sort of liked it. I was in the process of frogging some of the squares here. It has really been a love hate relationship with this afghan. I love the multicolored yarn. I just wasn’t sure how it would look assembled. I really disliked this blanket at this point. Nothing was right about it. So I took all the squares apart and started over with the multicolor  yarn along with the Stylecraft DK Special graphite to join the squares.
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The graphite really sets off the bright variegated yarn.
I loved it enough to finish the blanket. This is a throw sized sampler blanket.
It isn’t the huge sample blanket that I had envisioned but it is beautiful and the bright borders on each square really frame each granny square.
I love the bright colors in the framing around the sampler squares. It really gives the afghan some life and beauty.
There was so much already going on in this crochet blanket that the edging is as simple as you can get. Two rows; one of grey and one of the variegated yarn. It is quite beautiful and I am really pleased.
I am disappointed in myself that I didn’t crochet 200 squares as I had planned but I ran into a few road blocks on that project. One of which was finding 200 squares that were really different. The other was how to join them all together while keep the blanket a uniform shape and size. Originally I had planned to put them all together any which way. I figured out that I just can’t do that, it was really bothering me.
The other road block was working in one plain color. It was just so boring, and really not my style at all.
Talk to you later,
Karen
Ps. I am opening an Amazon handmade shop as well, so stay tuned. I will let you know the grand opening date! The items will be the same so we will do a test run and see which store sells the most!