12/12/2022

i feel i need to point out (and you can also see from all my Blankets projects) that it does NOT normally take me almost 5 years (4 years and almost 8 months) to make a blanket. (the Skull Rainbow Blanket took a year for some, but not all, of the reasons below too)

initially, i wasn’t sure how long i wanted it to be. so i was futzing around and eventually calculated how much yarn i’d need per pattern repeat of the 14 rows. and it was also starting to get big and unwieldy, so i couldn’t take it with to my yarn nights and it was confined to staying home. and then it would get set aside for holiday or birthday crochet projects, and because i had other things i wanted to work on. and somewhere in there, the store i was getting the yarn from was set to close up (in january of 2020), so i had to make sure i had enough yarn (turns out i do. *whew*). and there were also the summers, where i didn’t want a huge, heavy blanket in my lap for the project… and then we were moving, so it was in my storage locker for a little bit, and then we did move (10/21/22)…

04/17/2018

added 42 extra stitches, to have 7 cables instead of 5