Genius Hour Blog Post #5

This week I finished my Genius Hour project!  The most time consuming part of my work was making all of the squares for my blanket.  Each square consists of four different coloured rings with a white border, meaning that there were 24 possible colour combinations.  Even though I knew that I would probably only have time to sew 12 of the squares into my blanket, I still wanted to make all 24 first.  This way, I was able to design a final layout that I liked for all 24 squares and sew a portion of it, rather than sewing a layout that I liked for only 12 squares and being unable to incorporate it into a layout that I liked for my full blanket later.  The final piece of research that I had to do was to learn how to weave in all of the yarn ends on each square and on each seam.
In last week's blog post, I mentioned that I wanted to put a border on my blanket.  However, because I want to continue to make my blanket larger, this was not a practical step to do at this point, since I would just have to remove it later.  This is still something that I want to do going forward, but not something that made sense to do yet.

Genius Hour as a whole emphasized to me the importance of making education engaging for students.  Because I was able to choose what I wanted to do for my Genius Hour project and selected something that I was interested in and expected to enjoy, I was motivated to spend more time working on my project and put more effort into it than I otherwise may have.  Furthermore, my Genius Hour project gave me an opportunity to learn a new skill that I enjoy doing and want to continue doing in the future.

References

Weaber, M. (2018).  How to securely weave ends in granny squares.  Retrieved from https://shop.mybluprint.com/crocheting/article/weaving-ends-granny-squares/