Here’s an update on this post from September 2025 What’s on the “Design Carpet”: Update on Sunflower Granny Square Blanket.
After lots of time on the road during various roadtrips in 2025 I’ve exhausted my supply of “center flower” yarn for the Sunflower themed Granny Square blanket I’ve been crocheting while riding in the car.
So it is time to make it into a blanket!
There are a total of 137 granny squares!
This might seem tedious but I counted and photographed how many of each different mix of yarns squares (21 different versions of the square*) of the 137 squares I made (the count of each type in lower right hand corner):
I’m not using all 137 squares in the blanket. I figure I will make a 10 square by 12 square blanket and use 120 squares and save the rest (17) for a couple small projects like a pillow or something like that.
I decided not to use the “design carpet” to lay out the sunflower granny squares. Instead I separated them into VERY ARBITRARY “light” and “dark” piles, trying to make the piles as even as possible:
So I’ll post my progress as I crochet together alternating “light” and “dark” squares to make the blanket!
*(Why so many different versions for the granny squares? Well I was using up miscellaneous yarn I had thrifted over the years)
tierneycreates 
I love that you’ve used your thrifted yarn for this project. I’m excited to see how you join it together. It amazes me that you can crochet in a moving car, but kudos.
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Thanks so much, lots of skeins saved from the landfill! Plus it challenges your creativity when you work with limited materials I think. It helps to crochet in the car as it distracts me from being a nervous passenger! 🙂
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Yes. I lots of pluses.
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Fantastic! A truly graphic representation of the miles spent on the road.
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Thanks so much Laura! I appreciate that comment 🙂
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All those little squares of sunshine! Fun!
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Aww – thanks for the smile! I am going to think of them like that now 🙂
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It will be so beautiful to sleep in a field of flowers!
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Thanks so much – I love each square and I am looking forward to bringing them all together into something cozy 🙂
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Miles of travel and happy memories, a field of flowers to keep you warm.
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Awww – thanks so much I really appreciate that comment 🙂
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love all the different shades of golds and browns . . . looking forward to seeing these come together.
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Thanks so much, I got to use up a lot of thrifted yarn and it was fun having to make different combinations due to limits on how much I had of each yarn 🙂
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Wow, that’s a lot of sunflowers but will come together into something amazing
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Thanks so much! It is sort of intimidating all the the squares to crochet together but someday it will be done! 🙂
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This is going to be a glorious quilt!
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Thanks so much I am excited to be wrapped up in it someday 🙂
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Super wow, Tierney. It’s a field full all right! And each one unique and beautiful. I like how you are going about organizing them to put together into a blankie. A certain amount of serendipity seems to fit in with the carefree sunflower theme.
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Thanks so much I am pleased with them and now hope I can just go to bed a little fairies or gnomes will come during the night and put the whole thing together – ha! Thanks on the serendipity comment 🙂
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I bet the variety in the squares will give the blanket depth! Also, you are so organized – and I love how you grouped these.
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Thanks so much 🙂
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🙂🙂
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Beautiful and bright
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Thanks so much 🙂
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Your squares are all so beautiful! Can’t wait to see how you put them together 🙂 Good idea to count up the different colorways – that will help with figuring out distribution!
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Thanks I really appreciate that. It seemed silly but I just needed to sort them all out before putting them together 🙂
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I don’t think it’s silly at all! Doing a little pre-planning is a good idea in design
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