Where the Wool Things Are

Just a note before starting any Hero and Villain Granny Squares! For rows 2-4, insert your hook into the blue space of the dc underneath.  For rows 5-6, insert your hook into the yellow space of the dc underneath.

Here she is in all her glory! ☺️

For this part I used a double layer of black polar fleece. I cut the two layers to the current size of the blanket. For the first layer, at each of the corners of the squares in the blanket I secured with a single stitch and knot of cotton thread. For the second part I pinned both layers on the back and secured it on using the method in the YouTube tutorial by Yarn Andy. https://youtu.be/_PM5bNwPXrY She also has a blog outlining the process https://yarnandy.com/how-to-add-backing-to-crochet-blankets/ I used a 2.5mm hook and black 8 ply yarn to start the edge along the fleece. Then switched to 4mm hook when connecting the blanket and the fleece using single crochets instead of slip stitches around the entire blanket, and using (2 sc, 3 ch, 2sc) in each corner. For the next round I did the same in blue, but skip every second sc for a chain. For the last round I went back to black, put two sc in each gap and used (2 sc, 1ch, 2sc) in each co

Invisible stitch edge by edge, one square at a time, using the long ends left from edging the squares and a darning needle. The picture below is numbered by which edges were joined in which order, you can see the logical next steps.  I put my rows together first (the red joins) then joined them together starting at the bottom right (purple).