Cosy Crochet Cocoon Cardigan

With my long-term health condition, I feel worse when it's been damp and absolutely dreadful when it's cold with it. Well, what do you know, it's mid January and it's been both cold and damp for weeks now and my joints have been complaining every day!

I love watching Mikey's video tutorials over at 'The Crochet Crowd's' YouTube channel, he's a great host that really knows how to explain patterns in a way that makes it easy to follow along. A few weeks ago, I came across a tutorial for the Cosy Crochet Cardigan which I thought looked just what I needed. It's basically 4 Granny Squares folded over into a rectangle that you add a collar and cuffs to. I started with the first square with some wool that I'd originally intended for a shawl (only to remember that I already had one completed, and anther Entrelac shawl as a WIP). It came together quite quickly, but wasn't working up as thick as I would have liked in a finished cardigan.

I like to take small crochet projects into the office with me to work on during my lunchbreak, and was working on an Entrelac blanket while chatting to my colleagues about what I'd like to work on next. One asked whether the Entrelac technique would work for the cosy cardigan as it looked like it would be warmer and 'have less holes' than the Granny Squares of the original pattern.

I looked through the rest of the Cosy Cardigan pattern to see how the final squares were joined together, and after originally thinking that I could make two Entrelac rectangles (as per Mikey's Entrelac row by row video) I ultimately decided that I would just make one very large Entrelac square and just fold it in half - thus eliminating the four seam lines that were in the original pattern.

I've roughly worked out that I need the finished square to be 40 inches, with each individual Entrelac square being almost 2 inches, that's around 20 rounds of squares...so far I have completed 9 rounds, which is only 19 inches, so still quite a lot to do!