New Hobbys - Gabby Canzoniero

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During this quarantine, I've had a lot of free time on my hands, and to try and pass the time, I decided to make a blanket. My grandma taught me how to crochet and knit when I was younger, and I've made a pillow and a scarf from crocheting, but during this time of social distancing, I wanted to make a blanket.

I've never made a blanket because not only does it take a lot of time, but it takes a lot of yarn. But now I have had the perfect opportunity. Plenty of time to knit this blanket and I am able to order yarn online in case I run out of yarn (which I did). I had a plan laid out for my blanket, and when we were originally given 2 weeks away from school, I thought quarantine would be over before I finish this blanket. Now that the time away from school has been extended and I've gotten a lot faster at knitting, I might finish my blanket before we go back to school.

I decided to make a bunch of individual squares, thinking that this would give me a fun pattern. I made blue squares, yellow squares, and squares that were both yellow and blue. I wanted to make my blanket 9 squares by 9 squares, resulting in 81 squares total. I thought that I would end up making the blanket smaller than this, but so far it has been a perfect size. I also thought each square wouldn't take a while to make, but in reality, each square takes about 45 minutes, but that goes to show how much free time I have to knit.

The only part that I haven't liked about making this blanket is that because the blanket is made up of individual squares, I have to sew all the squares together. I'm not a fan of sewing, so sewing all the squares together hasn't been a lot of fun, but the rest of the blanket has been. So far, I've knitted 59 squares and sewn 54 of them together.


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  1. DanielleApril 30, 2020 at 10:45 AM

    This is amazing and now you will forever have your quarantine blanket to tell the story of what you did while home.

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