Looking for joining advice on big ass crochet blanket
Hey fellow hookers! I’m in the finishing stages of my rainbow block blanket made with DC (US terms) granny squares. I have been looking at videos and posts online but idk how I’m going to join these squares together. I’m using Hobbii cotton yarn 8/8 and a size H/5.0mm hook. There are 10 colors, 8 squares of each for a total of 80 squares. Some color blocks had to be finished with the border white because I ran out of the colored yarn.
This is all the finished squares laid out on a king sized bed. You can see that I started to border the squares with a HDC on the first 2 pink squares on the top left. I created a little color chart and numbered the squares but I have 2 big questions.
Question 1: will a HDC border around the squares be a large enough stripe of white to sash the squares when I join?
Question 2: I think I know the answer already, but is there a less intense way to join all these squares without weaving in MORE ends?! 😭 I think I want to do a Slip Stitch join on the back of the squares but I’m open to any and all input!
TL;DR: What do together? Weaving in UGH!!