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The Great Blanket Remake Part 2

The saga continues... As you may know, in early May, I started a fairly large project. The goal was to take an old work in progress and turn it into something useful. You can find the whole story in The Great Blanket Remake Part 1 . The second part of this project was a little more in depth than the first. That is because this half of the project involved taking apart the blanket that was already seamed together. It might seem crazy, but it ended up going so much better than I expected. I lost very little yarn to cuts and was able to make lots of sections. I had grand plans of making a whole set of one row striped sections, and I started doing so. I made 5 of these sections. These sections look amazing, and I think they will be a great addition to the blanket. However, they were not nearly as easy to do as I had hoped. There were lots of ends to deal with, but more than that the yarn yardage didn't work out well. There were times I ran out of a color too early, there were times ...