The Penguin Blanket of doom is finally finished! Hooray!

This blanket has been my bane for over a year, and I'm sooo glad it's finally finished. It is made up of 266 individually crocheted granny squares, and then assembled and finished with a green 5 row single crochet border. It ended up being 36"x47".

I started crocheting the squares in the fall of 2007, doing a lot of it while on my lunch breaks at school. The squares were small and worked up rather quickly. The only problem was with making 266 squares, there were an insane amount of yarn ends to sew in, which I absolutely hate. So, my ginormous pile of tiny crocheted granny squares got tossed in a bag and set to the side.

Every once in a while, I would pull out a few at a time and work the ends in. Eventually, at some point in October 2008, I finally had all the ends sewn in and pinned the squares together to begin assembling the blanket. Because of the various colors of blocks, there ended up being a lot more ends to work in after crocheting the squares together. So, once again, I put it to the side, but not out of sight this time.

I got tired of the unfinished blanket taunting me, and finally decided to sew in ends a few at a time while watching TV and taking breaks from other projects. I figured that the semester break from school was a good time to finish off some of these WIPs I have lying around.

After staying up all night New Year's Eve, and trying to stay up the rest of the day and go to bed at a decent time for once (as in before 3 or 4 am) in hopes of getting my sleep schedule back on track before the semester starts, I picked up the blanket again, somewhere around 2:30 am while watching the Moral Orel marathon on Cartoon Network :) and finally finished it! And of course, it left me saying what I always do after dealing with something like this. I WILL NEVER WAIT UNTIL THE END OF MY PROJECT TO DEAL WITH THE YARN ENDS! NEXT TIME I'LL DO THEM AS I GO ALONG!