oooooold UFO.
I want to knit a personal square for this blanket, too, and I am considering leaving out the “winner square” because somehow I think of it as “fake” because of the way it is knit (or not)

Erratta online here.

September 2008: Back from the hibernation - I think.
I did an inventory and have finished squares by (in order as photos):

1: Ginette Belanger
2: Barbara Selesnick
3: Judy Sumner
4: Vicki Sever
5: Suzanne Atkinson (ledt out the cross as I am not Christian and I did not want that symbol on my afghan)
6: Janet Martin
7: Dagmara Berztiss
8: Julie H. Levy (fin.: 11. september 2008 - and YES; there is an error on the left side, I’ll have to fix this with a darning needle and some yarn; the error is too obvious to be left as it is)

April, 2010: Back - again - from hibernation.
Picked up half-done square:

9: Meredith K. Morioka. It is very long with the required five repeats so I am goping to rip back and keep with four repeats of the pattern.

10: Kathleen T. Carty. When I first figured out the HKW and HPW thanks to a German forum it was really fun to knit and practically knit itself. I know there is a visible error (at least one) where I missed the idea of the centre part (I was watching telly, too hehe) but it’s no big deal. Finished in 1½ days. :o)

11: Georgia Vincent. I made the mistake of using stitch markers, figuring that was a reeeeally smart move of me - nope! Do not use stitch markers to keep the four corners marked, that will only give you a headache! :o) Otherwise a fun square. :o)

12: Hanna Burns: Booooring square - BUT the DNA string is not correct in neither picture nor diagram! It just forms a long band as it is but it should of course form a helix as seen here. The nucleotides are also going the wrong way, but I can live with that. :o) I corrected this by crossing the stitches on row 29 the other way around.

13: Carol Adams: This seems very easy, but gotta get it done. :o)
The diamonds actually gave me trouble and the transition between two of them is different. I could not get the stitch count to match but since I could wing it and create the same pattern in a different way I did not bother to “tink” back. :o)

14: Dana Hurt: Funny enough the right B panel is much loser than my left E panel…but I’m ok with it. :o)

15: Ada Fenick: I love this square, I love sculpting things in almost 3D in aran knitting.

16: Ann Strong: Somewhat easy, although it does take the eyes off the tv that I need to check the diagram every other row. ;o)

17: Patt Tanton Hewitt: Geeez, what a busy square. I have had second thoughts about this one because I think it’s very hmmmm opulent. But on the other hand I think it’s part of this afghan, so I’ll struggle through it although I think there is way too much going on.

18: Barbara McIntire: Almost a copy of square 14, by the look of the photos, but at least a looot easier than the previous square, yay! :o)

19: Marian Tabler: I have to use my magnets to keep track of each and every row, but I get the general idea - and maybe I should just stop wathcing tv while I knit it, then I might see the system. :o)

20: Jay Campbell

21: Ann McCauley: Easy enough, although I sometimes switched the bubble types (there are two different types in this square) so I had to tink several rows a couple of times.

22: Ginger Smith - interesting construction, but too bad this cannot be seen when it is done, then it looks like many of the other squares.

I am suddenly going through a divorce which I had not seen coming - so I now feel an urge to get this afghan done for the new home for the kids and me. :/

23: Betty Salpekar - for some reason I got stuck on the border although it is a very quick knit. Really like this one.

Now on for the last square which caused quite an internal debate: I do not consider it “proper Aran” because of the construction but on the other hand; if I added another square from a different pattern or made my own I would probably always look at that one square as a “wrong” square.