Progress...

A few more squares down.

Beach huts...

Sailing boat...

The boat isn't bunched - it's just how I laid it out.

Deckchair stripes...

The boat was probably the most conplex square yet. A lot of changes of yarn and directions of that yarn. 

...and how the blanket looks so far, minus a few squares that don't 'belong' anywhere yet.

I have decided to omit one of the corner squares and put in my own, with initials and if possible, start and finish dates of the blanket. It can't be any harder than some of these squares...

Anyone for ice cream?

What it says on the tin really.

I received my new yarn order and it's a revelation being able to knit more than three different squares!

The only mistake I made was to leave the green off the original order, and in a panic, buy a ball from ebay...without checking it was DK and not 4 ply!. I don't think you can notice the difference. Only two squares have green and they're not big areas so I think I am going to stick with it.

Yarn Order and Sewing up (again!)

I've bitten the bullet. I've run out of white so have put in my second order for yarn. That, I think, gives me most of the rest of the yarn I need to complete the blanket, plus three new colours so I can do some new squares (I am getting fed up of ropes and sand!) I may need some more white, red and blue but I will see as the yarn the book uses (which is no longer available) is sold in 50g balls whereas what I am buying is in 100g balls so the quantities needed aren't going to exactly match.

I have been sewing together some of the squares and it is almost looking like a blanket. Almost...

(see what I mean about getting sick of the same old squares?)

The Sand square I am knitting at the moment will keep me amused until the new order arrives and then I think I'll have a crack at the ice cream square...