Granny Stripe Blanket

Hooray!!!!  At last, it's finished!


I've been working on it all summer, in the hot weather, when it was a totally unsuitable project - but I just wanted to get it finished. I started it at the beginning of June, and then there was a wait till the second lot of yarn arrived, so I suppose it hasn't actually been that long...


Anyway - here it is in all its glory...

...and only one mistake...

...when I added the shell edging, I made less stitches on one short edge than the other!  It took me a while, smoothing the blanket out on the bed and finding the top end was narrower than the bottom end, before I finally worked out what I'd done wrong!  However, I'm not going to take it all back again, even though I'm generally a bit of a perfectionist with my work.

I really like the edging, which consists of various dc (British English terminology) rows with a final shell row of dc, miss 2 sts, 7tr into next st, miss 2 sts; repeated.

So - now something to use up all those little balls left over...