Entrelac?

I was worried my first attempt at entrelac would not look very nice, plus my budget is a bit tight, so I decided to go with Vanna's Choice yarn since it's cheap and if I didn't do a great job with it, well, at least I didn't waste the "good yarn." 

Looks off, right? I thought so too even at the start of it. I was knitting one direction of blocks much more quickly than the other direction. I clearly kept going anyway.

After two balls of yarn and quite a few hours of work into it, it hit me like a train that I confused SSK with something else that was causing me to decrease twice as quickly on the rows where I should have been using SSK to decrease.

I put out a call to friends, who reassured me it still looked great, and after I stared at it for a while and beat myself up appropriately for such a silly error (I swear I know what SSK means and have used it many times), I decided I actually really like how it looks. It's visually interesting and I think I might even write a pattern for it once it is completed.

I have a bunch of cheap fleece blankets around the house because I'm always cold, and I'm tired of them. I'm trying to replace them with some throws knit with new techniques (like this one) or simple stitches (soon to come).