I lied on the started date -- I actually started this back in early 2022. I knit the very first modular section on February 13, 2022, and the next four sections soon after, with the fifth section on March 11. But after those first 5 sections I put it away to focus on a sweater… and didn’t pick it up again until now, January 2024. So I’m officially calling it my 2024 blanket project and entering the start date as today. I’ll aim to average at least 1 section per week, hopefully more once I finish a couple of sweaters I have on the needles…

Update January 2025: Well that plan didn’t work out!! I barely made progress throughout all of 2024, but now I really truly plan to focus on this project for 2025 with the goal to finish it by the end of this year! If I do 2-3 sections per week it’ll happen. Let’s do this!

Knitting the pattern as written except changing colors for every movie I knit to, with the genres being color-coded!

Documentary = Speckle
Sci-Fi/Action/Adventure/Fantasy = Black base color
Drama = Multicolor
Comedy/Dramedy = Red/Orange
Thriller/Crime/Mystery = Yellow/Brown
Horror = Green/Blue

So far I’m using all sock yarns held double, but I may incorporate machine-washable worsted weight yarns too… focusing on busting through leftover mini-balls so there won’t be a lot used of any particular yarn/color, super scrappy!

I made a couple of color changes after starting… at first I’d planned blue for action/adventure/fantasy and black base (like black with some other colors but black is the majority) for sci-fi, but after the first chunk I realized I have a lot of blue yarn and I don’t watch a lot of those movies, so I ended up combining all 4 of those genres for the black, and tacking blue onto horror (one of my most-watched genres) so it’s green/blue instead of just green. I also was watching a lot of the yellow genres, so I added brown for more options. And I added orange onto the red for comedy for more yarn options there as well. The whole color-coding thing is a bit scrappy, but I think this’ll work better than like being more precise (like separating red+orange and blue+green into separate sub-genres) since I watch a lot of movies that are multiple genres or harder to define.