The last two squares for 2009 are done.  Falling Star (Ravelry link) is a lovely pattern – easy to work and effective.

The last one for the year was Double Framed Lace.  I chose this pattern instead of the Craftster one.

There is a story behind this square. Somehow during the year I began using more than one ball of yarn per square but only in this colourway. That meant that when I got to doing the last square I didn’t have enough yarn. And it’s been discontinued.  I did lots of internet searches on etsy and eBay and elsewhere in an attempt to track another ball or two down with no success. So I put a post on a wanted thread in a Ravelry forum.  About half an hour later I received a message that a very generous person who had read my wanted post remembered it when she saw two balls of Vintage Hues in this colourway offered on the Aussie Swappers forum.  They run a karma swap, where you offer up a couple of balls of yarn to anyone who wants it, and the person who claims it then offers up some yarn to anyone who wants that yarn, and so on.  It’s not a direct swap – it’s just karma!  So She Knits claimed the yarn for me, put up a couple of balls of her own yarn to continue on the karma swap, and then Silver Creek Spinner sent the yarn to me!  I was so excited to have enough yarn to finish my blanket, and just blown away with the kindness of strangers.  I must have been good to someone in a former life!  Thanks again to both ladies.

Both squares are crocheted in Cleckheaton Vintage Hues with a 6.5mm bamboo hook, as usual.  I’ve ordered some Rustic in Midnight Tweed to join them – each colourway contains some dark blue, so lets hope that I’ve chosen wisely.  No promises that it will be finished before the end of 2009 though.