Vintage crochet blanket...part 1

Joining in with Ginny for this weeks Yarnalong...

Crocheting...

When I first taught myself to crochet, the one image that kept popping up was a black trimmed afghan

 with every color of the rainbow squares on a red sofa at my grandmother's house.  

I have wanted to make one for two years now.  So I thought the best time to start it 

was right in the middle of trying to finish up Christmas presents!!  I just couldn't wait any longer.

I gathered every scrap I had laying around.  Silk bamboo, acrylic, wool, cotton...didn't matter....
Good thing I was off for 2 weeks in December.  Making squares became my job!

I originally had planned on joining it all together with black, but when I saw "Charcoal"
 I decided that was the right one....

  Here is a glimpse of the first few squares that I had joined :

Here is the first 50.  All joined and ends woven in...

I am thinking it will need to be 500+ squares to fit on a full size bed.
 I am totally loving all the color play this is allowing.

My grandmother was an artist.  She worked with paint, clay, stained glass...just about any medium
 that you could possibly think of.  I never really got a chance to spend a lot of time with her.
  Unfortunately, she  passed away last February, but I think she would be happy with all this color.
 So in her memory, I am calling this blanket Ann

Reading:

One of my favorites!!