We moved into this apartment last January. It has high ceilings and huge windows on all of the walls. All winter we sat shivering on the couch watching movies as we felt cold air emanating from the windows. Sometimes we would even drag our feather comforter into the living room. I decided that it was time to make a blanket for myself.

I bought all the yarn last winter and started the blanket. I didn't get too far along before the Philly Winter turned to Spring. This is a very big blanket (the width of the couch in both directions) so I didn't feel like piling the whole thing on my lap to work on it when it was hot out.

So, my basket of partial-blanket and skeins of yarn sat sad and mostly neglected during the warm months, but as soon as a chill entered the air, I became determined to finish the blanket. There were many weekend afternoons spent watching ridiculous on-demand movies during my crochet-a-thons.

And now, in the midst of an East Coast snow storm, I'm very glad to have this blanket. It's more than big enough for both of us to cuddle under for movies and late night fake-news (Comedy Central, anyone?). The blanket was done in simple rows of single crochet in which I only went through the front bar of the previous row's single crochet. This produces vertical lines in the blanket. I like the way the vertical lines balance the chaos of the variegated yarn.