Since I’ve been learning to crochet I’ve been yearning to make my own blanket. For months I’d keep seeing them in my friend’s houses or on TV shows. Amy’s blanket in the Big Bang Theory  certainly caught my eye and my envy. So with my crochet book to hand, some help from Mollie Makes and after watching a few YouTube videos, I set about making a Granny Square crochet blanket.

I decided it would be far too fiddly to make lots of squares and stitch them together to create a patchwork effect. Instead I took the lazy way out and just went for one really big square. Here it is:

 

 

The great benefit to just going with one mega square is if you run out of wool, or get bored (whichever comes first), you can finish and you still have something you can use. If you’re even lazier you could turn an abandoned square into a cushion!

 

Luckily, I didn’t run out of wool for a while so I managed to make a medium sized blanket. If I was to do this again though, I’d definitely rethink the wool thickness as the holes in the square are rather large. Which means that in its main function to keep you warm and snug, it can get a little draughty.