Seed Packet Crochet Blanket – Joining the Central Blocks

This is the almost magical part where a heap of separate pretty crocheted circles turns into a piece of fabric.

Here are my completed Section 1 blocks up to Round 3, laid out in order, ready for joining:

My colour plan for Rounds 4 and 5 is a simple checkerboard of two light colours:

This joining technique for blocks is a little different to other crochet square joining methods I have used in the past, but it’s fun and works well! I always prefer to crochet rather than sew blocks together. I kept the blocks on a knitting needle in the order I needed to attach them, so I didn’t have to refer to a diagram, just grab the next block.

 

I love it when a plan comes together!

 

It definitely feels like I have a blanket now!

One of my aims was to use up some of the less desirable colours I have left over from my Bargello Blanket – the apricot and chartreuse colours, the little bit of light green – and I’m already well on the way to this. Later on in this blanket are some rounds and blocks that use just tiny amounts of yarn, which is part of the reason I chose this pattern. It’s a perfect way to finally use up every last inch, whilst tying the colours of that section back to the central panel.

Any small ends that are left after this blanket is finished (unlikely), I’ll make into the small granny square centres I’m making as a way of storing my last small yarn remnants. In the future I’ll join all these completely random blocks and have another blanket almost by mistake.

Here’s the finished central panel of Section 1 of the blanket. I’ll admit it felt like a lot of ends to weave in, so I’m looking forward to the longer crocheted rounds of Section 2.