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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 that I had way to much of a color, and the yarn got all tangled. All of this led to only having five sections in this fun striped pattern.



After that, I knew I had to change my plans. The first thing I tried was to randomly pick a triangle from the box and work it into the section. This worked well for a while, and I was able to keep good variety in the sections I made. After a while, I realized I wanted to keep the variety in the sections and that I would need to do a little planning.



In order to keep the variety and not end up with a bunch of one color left at the end, I planned out what was left and wound them into large balls of yarn. It was actually pretty fun to just work with the super scrappy ball of yarn, never really know what color I would get next. (This is actually the method I use to work up my scraps for WUA Sections and you can read more about it here.) This actually made the whole process go much faster too.


Between both parts of this remake project, I ended up with 53 total sections. That is more than enough for an adult sized blanket (49 sections) which is exactly what I was hoping for. My guess from the beginning was 50 sections which I was able to do just a little better than. This means that some joiner out in the world is going to have lots of options when it comes to making blankets. The downside is, I will likely never know what exactly becomes of these, unless they go to a joiner in the Maker's Group and they share! This is my not-so-secret wish.

Thanks for joining me in this crazy project. It feels so good to have it done, but it feels even better knowing that it will go to someone in need instead of sitting in a tub in my closet!

-Sarah
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