One a Day Project - Tuesday's Tallies

Time for Tuesdays Tallies again.  I was hoping to have a Ta-Dah for today, but time and work were against me and i just didn't get the border finished on my Sunny Squares last night.  I'm not going to share any photos of it as it really is just a few stitches away from being complete and I'd quite like to leave the big reveal for when it's all done.  In the end I decided to stick with the squares I already had.  I only needed to unpick two larger sets of 16 squares, which left me with 12 sets of 4 squares each to rejoin together.  That all sounds a bit muddled but all will be revealed very soon.  It's such a great feeling to be finishing a project, but it also means I get to chose a new project for my One a Day.

Okay, time for a confession - I have a huge stash, seriously huge stash of yarn.  And it really is time I started to reduce this stash.  So, my next project is going to one which will see this massive selection of cotton/acrylic yarn into a blanket.  I'm not totally sure what pattern/design to go with yet.  I will most likely pick single coloured granny squares of hexagons and much as I love join as you go, I think I will join them when they are all complete with a slip stitch join as I find it helps to give some stability to the finished piece.  I may not use all of the colours, the reds, the dark purples and one of two of the darker oranges may not be included which will give me a softer colour palette than normal.  This is obviously a long term project, there is some serious yardage of yarn there.  Whatever I pick will be fairly small, so the chances are I'll be doing two or three squares/hex's a day.  I'm planning to drag it all back out of the cupboard and weigh it all as I thought it might be fun to see the weight reducing as I work away at the pile.  For those who might be interested the yarn is a mixture of DK weight cotton/acrylic blend - there is James C Brett Kool Kotton and Cotton On, Sirdar Calico and Drops Design Cotton Light.  The last one is my favourite :)  I'm hoping they will all work together, some are thinner and the texture of the Kool Kotton is very different to the others but hopefully it will al work out in the end.

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