This past Saturday I finished the last two blocks and blocked them. I laid out the remaining blocks Saturday evening and started the assembly. First you join the blocks into the columns, and then you join the columns, all of the joins are three needle bind-off, so pick up stitches and then bind them off. For the columns you pick up along the edge of one block and then continue to pick up along the edge of the next, using the same needle and yarn. I used a 32” circular needle for that, and had to pull a loop out where the two blocks met, but it worked great. For joining the columns I had to use to two 40” circular needles, picking up the stitches of each column to join on one of the needles. When joining the columns I did columns 1 and 2, and then 3 and 4, and then did the middle seam so that I always had the same amount of fabric on each needle. The joining took 39 grams of yarn. So far the blanket has taken 789 grams. One thing I noted was that none of my skeins were the full 100 grams. They were all underweight.
I have also sewn in most of my ends. I left all the ends on the edges of the blanket because I am planning on working a border with whatever yarn I have left after working two cushions. There is a matching cushion pattern that was part of the club, and I will be using that pattern.
Pattern: Seascair Blanket by Carol Feller (mitered squares only)
Yarn: Blasta
Needle: US 6 (4.0 mm)
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