Tuesday: Tips, Techniques & Tutorials

All of our focus, lately, on those squares for South Africa has inspired me to make Spud & Chloe’s Dream Catcher Blanket for one of my grandsons.

Dream Catcher Blanket

Since I’m making it for a tween-aged boy I have changed the color scheme somewhat — all right, a lot! — and my squares are 8″ instead of the pattern’s 6.25″.

See my happy little yarn cakes waiting to be knit?

And – of course – Maxx-Cat had to supervise the winding.

"Gotta watch that yarn!"

Which is why all of the yarn for the project now looks like this ↓

"Mom took away all my fun!" 😦

But where in all this are the “tips, techniques & tutorials” implied (if not outright promised) in the title of this post?

Right here!  Spud & Chloë — Blog.

Susan Anderson, designer of the Dream Catcher Blanket, has made three excellent videos showing how she joins these squares together and weaves in the ends. And since we’re hard at work making those squares for South Africa, we need to know how to join them – right?

See? There was a method to my madness!     🙂

Trixie says, "Yeah, yeah, yeah... more likely there's a madness to your method!"