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I’ve ended up with a ‘summer weight’ baby blanket – which is perfect as an acquaintance is about to have her first child.<\/p>\n
Each square is 4″ (unsurprising really given it’s a 4″ loom) and takes about 9 yards of yarn (depending exactly on what fibre you are using – I was using a bit less for the acrylic above, and a bit more for the 100% cotton I tried) and after a bit of practice it does indeed take about 15 minutes to create a square.\u00a0 The blanket is 30 squares (5 x 6) and a border ending up 24″ by 28″.<\/p>\n
The only thing I’m not overwhelmed by is the process of joining the squares together.\u00a0 Using the suggested “whip stitch” method looks a bit untidy to my eye (particularly at the junctions and corners) and a single crochet ridge won’t work either.\u00a0 There are suggestions in various places of crochet inserts and other sewing methods so I think I need to try some of those.<\/p>\n However I do think there will be more of these little squares in my future…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two posts within a week?!\u00a0 What is going on? Well I promised you an updated on the Zoom Loom I told you I had purchased with my Birthday money (because, as I’ve already said I am fundamentally 6 years old).\u00a0 … Continue reading <\/a>The drape and handle of each square is lovely, particularly on the cotton yarn I did a couple of test squares with and I’m really quite looking forward to trying it with two different yarns – or a variegated yarn – to see what colour “stuff” happens.\u00a0 I may have some lust for the shawl sized triangle looms I’ve seen around on Google.\u00a0 Lust that will never be requited, but still one can dream<\/p>\n