We have a finish, sort of.

Three years ago, temperature blankets were all the rage (in the knitting granny community at least), and I really wanted to make one, but since I like to make everything harder, I decided to make a ten year blanket to celebrate my 10 years in Ireland.

This is how it started.

You’d think that the pandemic would have made it finishing this project a breeze, and you’d be wrong. I got obsessed with cross stitch, and after spending most of my pandemic time watching cats on Instagram, 3 years later the blanket was still there in its little craft basket, unfinished, sad, abandoned, causing me a great deal of WIP anxiety.

A couple of weeks ago, I picked it up again, trying to at least finish the current month, July. It turned out I only had two rows left, and it turned out it was also big enough to cover my legs when sitting on my armchair. So I decided it was time to admit defeat, and try to get the best out of it. So now I have a nice new couch cover.

It was meant to be from March to February, each row represented a day, and each column represented a year from 2010 to 2019, but it only goes from March to July.

Let’s be honest, this was a very badly thought project and it turned out messy with all the different colors entangling. Changing color so often in the middle of the row also isn’t a good look.

And the damn thing is heavy! I can’t imagine how massive it would have been if I managed to finish all 12 months…

But it’s done. Sometimes you just need to know when to quit. And on the plus side I still have about 10 balls of yarns to make a cardi or another scarf. But that’s a project for some other time, since now that I have freed my crochet pipeline (I try to have only one WIP per craft at one time), I have already started a new crochet sweater.