{"id":1102,"date":"2010-05-06T14:34:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T13:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2010-12-19T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T13:56:10","slug":"granny-afghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2010\/05\/granny-afghan\/","title":{"rendered":"Granny Afghan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always wanted to make a multi-coloured afghan from proper old-fashioned Granny Squares. Finally found a pattern that fitted the bill on the Coats & Clark site<\/a>, It took me about 6 weeks to gather 12 different yarn colours that I liked and thought would work well together. Ended up with quite a mixture of yarns. Some I liked more than others. <\/p>\n

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The orange and bright blue yarns were merino, so needless to say, I loved them. The dark blue was actually 4ply that I used double-stranded but that had some lovely subtle shades in it and was very soft. The light green Jaeger yarn was a bit of a disappointment – far too rough for my tastes. The dark red was a little thick with poor stitch definition. The light purple was bamboo — lovely and soft to work with but, in hindsight, probably not the best yarn type to use in a project like this. It’s a little too stretchy compared with the wools.<\/p>\n