It's large, it's spotty

What more can I say.  It's a large spotty blanket consisting of 40 squares for my friend's 40th Birthday.  She was very pleased with it.  I was very pleased that she was very pleased.  I always feel a little nervous giving surprise crafted gifts to people.

The circles were easy enough to do.  I just expanded on some of the patterns for spots in squares on ravelry.  Ellen Gormley's Sunny Spread pattern was very helpful in working out the square borders.  The edging was from Edie Eckman's Around the Corner book.   I wanted something that would curl up but wasn't just granny edging.

I used Stylecraft Special Aran for the whole thing.  It's soft and squishy and rather cosy if I do say so myself.