Stash Busting - The Ron Weasley Blanket
Over the Christmas holidays we always binge watch the Harry Potter Movies. Whilst watching Prisoner of Azkaban I happened to notice a gorgeous, scrappy, hand knitted blanket on Ron Weasley's bed (Molly Weasley I do so love all your makes). I instantly knew this would make an awesome stash busting project and I had to start straight away. A quick search found a brilliant guide by Jackie Wierzbick on her blog Penguineer's Purls and you can find the pattern page here... She has painstakingly collected lots of photos of the blanket and produced them into a layout grid and a guide for each knitted block. The squares are all knitted in garter stitch (which I love especially for "TV" knitting). There is also a crochet version which you can find here... So off I went to rummage through my stash. I have a great deal of those huge 400g balls of aran yarn I bought "cos it's cheap" that never got used (because it wasn't soft e