I am making a Queen sized bedspread out of a beautiful variegated yarn that my sister bought me for Mother's Day... it is a combination of a maroon colour, pink and white. I am making these 6" (15cm) granny squares in Extended Double Crochet, then doing an half inch border around in white (to be joined together).
At the moment, I have done 13 squares (without the white). Once I have fourteen, then I am going to crochet in white around the coloured squares, then join them together in a strip. This is one row (width ways) of the bedspread. My mum helped me calculate how many of everything I had to do, to do it as wide as the bed, plus adding the overhang, based on the queen bed being 60" x 80". Our final calculations are: the spread will measure 84" x 102" ~ and this means it will be fourteen squares by seventeen squares. The total number of squares I will need to make is... 238!!!! Eeeeeeesh, this blanket will take forever, and a day ~ but it will be worth it :-D
Now, doing that many squares may get monotonous, so I am thinking up another project to crochet for the 'in between times' when I am feeling so over doing squarey square squares ~ I'm off to search the web for inspiration!
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