The Epic Blanket project....

has drawn to its conclusion, producing a blanket of greater size than originally planned.  I'm proud of just how much knitting there was involved... and that I finished it despite it sometimes feeling as though I would be knitting the thing well into my retirement.   It used up masses of left over wool that would otherwise have sat in the stash for a very long time including a lot of bits of sock wool which I held double to create pretty effects on individual hexagons and several are made from the same wool but you would never know it because I overdyed the original in several different colours.

The dog adores it.   As soon as it got large enough she claimed it, by the simple method of taking control of the finished end of it, making a nest in it and refusing to shift.  Thus she snored on one end of it whilst I knitted at the other end for quite a bit of the project timescale.  The soothing qualities of a snoring dog sleeping on your knitting cannot be underestimated.  Nor can the advantages of knitting something so large that it keeps you warm whilst you are working on it (this being less of an advantage in a hot summer but this is Yorkshire so that wasn't exactly a key issue).   Also, by the time you've knit about ten of these you can do them in your sleep.... and there are a lot more than ten of the hexagons, so for much of the project it was truly mindless knitting which I could even manage without looking at the actual knitting all that closely.  Each hexagon was also reasonably forgiving of issues such as losing track of whether it was a decrease row, or forgetting to do a decrease and needing to fix it in the next round.... such loss of concentration being reasonably frequent when tired, or watching a particularly exciting bit of a telly programme or film. 

Pattern is Hexaghan by VeryBusyMonkey.
Yarns are extremely numerous in type, colour and composition. 
Two of the edges have hexagons that were folded in half and sewn at the back so that the edge was neat.  Its not ideal but I had no clue how to knit a half hexagon. 
The edges curl and some of the hexagons are a bit raised in the centre but its not the easiest thing to block though I've had a go.  I suspect it will lie flatter once its been washed but that will need to wait until there is better weather so I can lay it outside to dry flat on the lawn.