Comfort blanket

I mentioned a while ago that I was knitting for the Macmillan campaign to make a blanket of 40 squares. Since I started I've been invited to one of the coffee mornings that my friend Ann, herself battling with cancer, is holding at her home in the Borders next Friday. The idea is to either knit more squares or stitch together a blanket at the coffee morning, so pressure on to complete more squares. First of all Ann didn't think anyone else would be taking part in the blanket production but then she thought that one of her friends was a 'complicated knitter' and might join in, even more pressure then. Here's what I've done so far

I've knitted some of the patterns from the website
and added the odd one I've made up myself

trying to put some love into all of them.

I used double knitting pure wool that came from my stash and got 2 squares from each 50g ball. Several of the patterns included beads but I didn't have any in stock and didn't think they would add to the comfort factor. There are lots of interesting patterns available on the website and new ones keep getting added. I think I'll stitch strips together before I go, rows of 5 squares and then if anyone else has taken part we might be able to combine our efforts, if not I'll try to make more squares after the event as I don't think there is a closing date yet. So still time for you to join in.