Baby Blanket - done

Hey Guys!

I'm still recovering from a really, really bad cold that had me tied to the couch for the last few days. I have being sick, but as my job was rather stressful in those last weeks and I didn't take enough time to eat well and go running every now and then it's no surprise that my immune system went on strike. So I stayed at home, used about fifty tissues a day and used the time for crochet and reading.

A few weeks ago I told you about my Sunburst Flower Granny Square Baby Blanket. I finished it in those last few days. There are still a few ends to sew in, but right now I don't have the patience to deal with it! ;)

So let's enjoy some colorful pictures of my lovely blanket. I don't have a new owner for it, so for the time being it will live here at home with me. But I don't doubt that it will move to a new home soon!

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Seit letzter Woche hat mich eine heftige Erkältung fest im Griff. Nach zwei Tagen daheim hab ich den Fehler gemacht und bin wieder ins Büro. Hab ich dann auch gleich wieder bereut, danach lag ich nämlich wirklich komplett flach. Wenn man schon an die Couch gefesselt ist, muss man diese Zwangsruhe halt auch nutzen um zu häkeln und zu lesen. 

Vor ein paar Wochen hab ich meinen Sunburst Flower Granny Square Baby Blanket schon mal gezeigt. In den letzten Tagen hatte ich jetzt die Zeit um sie fertig zu stellen. Ein paar Fäden gehören zwar noch vernäht, dafür hatte ich jetzt aber mit meiner Rotznase wirklich keine Geduld. Kommt schon noch.

Also hier noch ein paar Fotos von der Farbexplosion. Noch ist die Decke bei mir, ich denke aber, dass es kein Problem wird, in nächster Zeit einen Abnehmer zu finden. 

sunburst flower granny blanket

 Hey guys,

guess what - today I'm writing a post about crochet! Because I actually wanted to make a blog to post about all my crochet adventures. Well, there hasn't been that much crochet lately, so I took some time everyday to finally be able to show you something.

About a year ago I made this baby blanket for my lovely niece. After finishing it, I had a lot of colorful Baby Merino Yarn left, so I decided to start a Sunburst Flower Granny Square Baby Blanket. Wow. What a name!
(If you don't know how to crochet the SFGS - I used this pattern - it's in German though, but there are hundreds of good patterns to be found on the internet)
I tried to chose the colors random. I hat 8 colors and tried to even the use of it. After 16 squares I repeated the color sequences in the hope, that the blanket would not be tooo crazy and unruly. 

the first squares

I started in early January, when a big bad cold tied me to my couch and I had a lot of time to crochet. I put the project aside from time to time to pick it up again a few days or weeks later.
Today I finished the 48th square. I played around with it for a while, before deciding on the final layout.

48 squares done!

For the next step I'll crochet the squares together. I decided to use green yarn for that, as I am slowly running out of the white one. It's a colorful baby blanket. There can't be too much color in it.

trying out different ways to arrange them

Let's see how long this will take me. I'm hoping for a rainy and cold weekend so there will be a lot of crochet time for me.

first row is joined!