Hubs & I live in a 1 bedroom apartment with less than 1,000 square feet. Needless to say, we are a bit tight on space and it’s hard for me to hoard yarn. Not that I don’t do it, it’s just hard to justify my boxes full of yarn in our bedroom closet when I have no plan for it!
For the last couple of months I have been obsessed with making a scrap blanket or two with my millions of scraps, thus freeing up some space AND having an awesome blanket! I’ve been searching Pinterest for inspiration (you can follow me here: http://pinterest.com/kandiceo/) and thought I would share some of my favorites! Click on the picture to go to the source website!
I love the choice of colors here, but I think it would look great with a variety of “scrap” colors too. Akiyo got her inspiration from this great blanket from CocoRose:
cocorosetextiles.blogspot.com
I love this large continuous granny square! It might be a bit hard to make using scraps if you won’t have a lot of some of the outer colors, but it’s beautiful!
I’m obsessed with Matt’s blog, and I love this blanket. It’s so simple but with all the different colors makes such a big impact!
Very similar to this blanket is the one below by Sandra at Cherry Heart. I love her colors as well!
sandra-cherryheart.blogspot.co.uk
pinkfluffywarrior-pinkfluffywarrior.blogspot.com
I love the chevron take on the traditional Granny stitch. HayLey has a great tutorial on this post for this pattern.
I actually found this on a Craftster forum and can’t track down any original blog, but I wanted to share this anyway. The black stripes between all the squares makes it look like stained glass.
- copertineaduncinetto.blogspot.com
This one isn’t in English, but this blanket is beautiful so I’m sharing anyway:
If you have a favorite Scrap Blanket feel free to share it in the comments! I’ll share pictures of mine as it comes along.
Hey!! I just started one, too! I am doing one round of granny square and doing join as you go – very tedious but A LOT of fun! I will take a pic and post it on your fb to see. I also started a Gumball blanket from Baby Love Brand Kids with scraps, too! Have fun – love scrapghans! You can see one I did here: There is a hex one and a Moorish one 🙂 http://www.flickr.com/photos/23674079@N02/page3/
Wow, that is beautfil! Thanks for sharing!!
Love all of these colourful blankets although I have to say the flower one is my No. 1. look forward to seeing which option you go for to use all your bits and pieces.
Here’s a pic of mine that is almost finished. It needs one more round and to sew in ALL those ends, but I think it’s turning out nicely. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152743898185092&set=pb.294442540091.-2207520000.1367341889.&type=3&theater
That does look really good!! Thanks for sharing your picture, I’d love to see it when it’s all done!
These blankets are lovely! What a great way to use up your scraps!
OH MY GOSH!!!!!! Love the post.
The last one with the flowers is my favorite!! I wanna try this one but now I’m working on a circles blanket. It is a idea too! Good luck and thank you for this post!
I’d love to see pictures of your circle blanket if you’re willing to share!
I will!! = )
Let see how long I will take to finish it……