Then I made myself put it down and work on Blankie #4 while thinking about what I’d do for today’s cast on.

Progress on the Blankie: Finished the 5th ball… only one left.

Consulting the lineup in Ravelry, I decided to go with the Granny Bag as I wanted something particularly mindless. Looking at the pattern I saw that it really didn’t matter what kind of square you had but was more about the assembly of the squares. I plan to really have fun with that later but for now a basic bag will do.

I wanted to use some of my huge stash of Bernat Berella 4″ obtained at steep discounts last year due to Michaels clearance sale but couldn’t get at it without waking my mother. So I went with black and green thin worsted acrylics instead that I had laying around. The green comes from an Ebay lot of 20 sk (300yds each) that I bought years ago in a misguided attempt to save money but that’s another story. 20 skeins is way more than I needed so this would be a good way to try using up some of it so the squares are more green then black (Lion Brand Wool Ease).

Also decided to make the 7 round square to get a bigger bag. I did a stupid thing near the end of the first square and snipped the black end even though I noticed that where it was sticking out, it probably wasn’t woven in. But no… I had to cut it, then pull and sure enough the black row (5th) started popping loose. And I’d already crocheted the whole 6th row of green on top of it. Had to rip it out but managed to salvage most of the 5th and then finish the square.

Did 4 rounds of the next before calling it quits for the night. Only need 16 squares to construct the bag so will be interesting to see “how fast” it goes. Seems like a great market/tote bag that’s easily adjustable in size by adding or subtracting rounds to the squares.