At some point last summer I wanted to start decorating our balcony. Of course, that meant trying to find knitting or crocheting ideas. Searching through Revelry I found the Paintbox Log Cabin Blanket by Katherine Keyes. She used Noro Kureyon in a big 4 x 5 square blanket. I remembered that I had some Noro Haniwa left from the Skerry cardigan I knitted last winter, and that I also bought all of the yarn that the store had left after finishing the project as I was so fond of the yarn. I made one square first to see how it would look like and to evaluate if I had enough yarn. I loved the result, but at the same time noticed that I would run out of yarn. However, I also found this green Debbie Bliss Donegal Luxury Tweed for framing the squares, so blanket project was on.

After knitting the first square I realised that I wouldn't be able to make more than 8 or 9 squares. That wasn't a problem, though; I figured that a smaller blanket would be just fine. I had plenty of the green tweed, so I doubled the width of the edging and it turned into a nice 93 x 110 cm blanket. I modified the edging also in that I knitted it in one piece instead of the original one-side-at-a-time construction.