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So a couple years ago after finishing a log cabin blanket for a nephew, I had the idea to make a log cabin style blanket for us. But king sized. And in squares of 5 different sizes, from 2 inch by 2 inch up to 10 inch by 10 inch. All the squares except the 2 by 2's are log cabin style. My son designed a blanket 100 inches by 100 inches with the various square sizes and off I went making squares. 446 squares in all.
The squares were a nice portable project, but weaving in ends was not. It took a long time to weave in the ends and I'd go in spurts in doing it. Well I finally finished weaving in those ends, over 1700 of them in total, yesterday. I washed and dried all the squares in case I had an errant ball of wool among my scraps. Amazingly, none shrunk. Last night my girls helped me lay out the squares based on the design. It took us about 2.5 hours. Then we pinned the squares to an extra sheet I had underneath it so we could roll it up and keep it out of the way. Once I get it all seamed together, which I think will take a while, I'll post more pictures.
 

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I made a Babette blanket, and it's a similar process - all different sized squares that have to fit together in a particular way. But nowhere near the number of squares you have.

It makes me realize what a job your son did figuring out the architecture.

And then you - all those squares, all those ends! It's just stunning.
 
Wow that is a lot of squares and I love the way you laid them out. Did you design it yourself and lay it out or did you get the idea from somewhere? Gives me courage to keep going on my long put aside "thing" of mitered squares.
 
I am very impressed with your endurance! I would not want to sew all the squares together, but I imagine you have a detailed plan for that, too. I never heard of pre-washing the squares to identify any shrinkers before you put it together, but that's a really smart way to prevent problems.
 
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