Log Cabin blanket

When my husband asked me for a new blanket, I searched through a lot of the patterns looking for designs that were modular and therefore could easily be expanded on to make the blanket bigger.  After I showed him several that I thought would be good, he picked this one:  Autumn Log Cabin Throw (a free pattern on the Red Heart website) and chose a selection of blues and grays for the yarn.

The pattern calls for 36 blocks and suggests that each will be about a foot square, but mine are coming out closer to 8 inches.  I'll have to see what it looks like when they're done and laid out, but I'm already expecting to have to make more.  I do like the way the first finished block came out:

The inner light blue square was a tricky variation on a granny square, and relied on a "long double crochet" (which was a new stitch for me) to give it a sort of puffy, flowery aspect.  Each subsequent border is a simple set of 5 rows of single crochet.

Right now, I have 2 blocks finished, and 34 more in progress.  It's proven to be a good traveling project, since it doesn't involve referring back to a complicated graph, and I can just toss a handful of squares in my bag along with a skein of whatever color they need next.

This project started right around Christmas, so I feel like it's progressing at a very good pace.  Whenever I get tired of single crochet, I switch to a cross-stitch project for the weekend.