Square No 19 Complete - and a New Purchase!

As I promised myself, I sat down for a few hours yesterday afternoon and completed the Great American Afghan Square N.o. 19, which I posted about on Saturday. Here is a picture of the completed square:

This takes me to 9 completed squares, and as they are a generous size (12" square), I could put this amount together for a small lap blanket:

I have enough yarn to do 4 more squares, possibly 5 or 6 if I do some multi-coloured ones as well. 6 more square would be ideal, so I think I will soldier on, even though it may mean waiting a bit longer. This afghan was intended as a housewarming for our new house, which we have been living in since August!

I also purchased some yarn yesterday - in the morning we went to suss out a nearby car boot sale, as we need to sell some stuff from our downsizing, and while there I found a woman selling a load of yarn. Mostly 1980s stuff, there were some nice colours but most of it was a little acrylic-y for me - until I saw this lovely 100% Jacob wool in a natural, undyed, dark brown:

And I managed to buy 16 balls for £15. Very happy with that purchase. A sweater's amount, so I will think on what kind of sweater to do with it.

Difficult

After knitting the husband's jumper, and occasionally (very bad!) working on a rather dull City and Guilds sample, I picked up the lately neglected Great American Afghan today, as I am halfway through Square 19, which calls for a two colour entrelac with cables pattern. Here is a picture of my progress so far:

Now what is tricky about this pattern (my first every go at entrelac) is remembering to do the knit or purl 2s at the end of every right side block, in order to join the blocks together. Quite often, I will get most of the way through a block (sometimes having cabled through it) and realised - I haven't joined it! Aaargh! So frustrating, and such a silly repeat mistake. Doesn't matter how long I have been knitting, I keep making them!

Readers, my goal is to finish this square, this weekend. Hold me to it...