Complete Happiness

I've always loved crochet as a reminder of my grandmother, something I can do practically in my sleep, and a way of finding calm through art, particularly over the last year. I'm writing this post on the first day of Fall, which I'm not dreading near as much as usual because I've been so wrapped up in making a blanket with this yarn: Premier Puzzle in the colorway Marbles. It's been a consistent source of happiness when I most needed that.

Happiness is, like everything else, impermanent. I went to order more of this yarn when it went on sale, and Marbles is out of stock. Sigh. Hopefully they get more of it.

Based on the yarn I already had in my stash, I thought I would get at least 64 hexagons out of the yarn. But I actually got 72, so I arranged them in an 8 X 9 rectangular grid. I'm not very tall, so I don't need a long blanket.

To join the hexagons I'm just sewing them in strips with a yarn needle, and then I'll sew the strips together.

It took me a couple hours to do three strips; here I have four more stacks to go.

Joining the hexes is why I saved every scrap of this yarn. I also have one big ball that I may use to do a single crochet border.

Joining together the sewn strips now in this pic.

It took a few days, but I finally got the entire blanket sewn together.

I like the look of it as is (and it's big enough already) so I'm not going to add a border.

It took nineteen days to make this project, and it was truly complete happiness, start to finish.

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