#scrap blanket

[cottonkhaleesi]

And the 2026 scrap blanket is done.*

[magicallywithlove]

New project!

[ilovebitchingandmoaning]

im making a scrap blanket in christmas colors and everytime my mom sees it she always comments on how much she loves it and is it for her etc

she doesnt know im making it for her

[dreamsinombre]

I saw your scrap blanket post and wanted to ask: how do you knit a scrap blanket? how do you knit several rectangles together? My aunt crocheted several knitted stripes that are about 1,20m x 20cm together, but the difference in texture between the knitted parts and the crocheted rows is .. difficult.

Do you mean this post?

I actually ended up scrapping this scrap blanket because the yarn weights were getting just too different from one another. I also just wasn't working on it, and decided the yarn would be better used in other scrap blanket projects anyway.

I tend to crochet my blankets overall (I can't imagine that many live stitches), so they're a little bit more wieldy to put together… but I also abhor seaming and avoid it absolutely as much as possible, so my scrap blankets tend to be continuously growing monstrosities.

Because you used two different fiber arting techniques ("my aunt crocheted several knitted stripes") I'm not sure which craft your aunt actually did! If the stitches you can see in the stripes look like little v's (or little horizontal bars), then she knitted (and purled) them. If it looks like a wide variety of stitches you find difficult to accurately describe, she probably crocheted them.

Texture differences aren't necessarily a bad thing in a scrap blanket, unless you really happen to really dislike one of the textures. At that point, if you're making the blanket for yourself, I would just omit those pieces.

In either case, whether the stripes are crocheted or knit, seaming pieces together is essentially the same concept: you just use some kind of seaming technique either with a tapestry needle or by using a crochet row to attach them to one another. The tricky part comes with trying to line the stitches up—which! if you're making a scrappy, patchworky blanket, you don't have to do, and it just adds character to it, imo!

The other tricky part comes in if the stripes your aunt made are of different yarn weights. In that case, I would probably advise picking up stitches along the border and then knitting or crocheting (your craft of choice) at least one row of border around each piece you want to use, individually, all in the same weight yarn. So all your borders will be the same weight even if your individual pieces aren't. That should make your seaming process a bit easier.

If you've got different size pieces to put together, you'll have to do a little planning before seaming them all together so you can arrange them in a way where they all fit to form the shape you want. This may mean making and adding in new scrap pieces to make up any different in length or width—but again, that just will add to the patchwork charm.

It's hard to say anything more specific without seeing what the pieces look like, so I hope this was somewhat helpful!

[rose-honey-lemonade]

How it started

How it's going

My ten stitch blanket is actually blanket sized now!! It's not nearly as big as I want it to be (big enough for my boyfriend and I to both fit under 🥰) and I have a lot more scraps left but it's looking so cute!!!!

[smallpotatoknitwear]

Quarantine Blanket #3: Granny Square (1)

Aaand it’s back to crochet! (spoiler alert: I’ve only finished one knit blanket in the entirety of quarantine. They just take so much more time!!!) This Granny Square blanket (or not-your-granny’s square; I’ve seen them called both!) is literally just one giant granny square, and I love it so much. It started out as a scrap blanket, to use up a bunch of my worsted-weight scraps, but I did wind up picking up a few skeins of yarn to fill in a few spots and make sure I didn’t only have one stripe of a color—namely the dark brown, which I only had a small scrap for in the beginning of the blanket, so I picked up a skein to add some of the color in a few other places. But I used almost all of the yarn I picked up, so I think that overall it was a net “loss” to my stash!

This blanket is absolutely massive—quite possibly the biggest one I’ve ever made. It’s easily 6x6 feet, probably larger, but is made out of worsted-weight yarn, so it’s a little thinner than most of the other blankets I’ve made recently. It’s actually the first blanket I ever made out of worsted yarn! Admittedly, not all of the yarn is particularly consistent in weight—some of it’s a lot thinner, some is a lot thicker, and a few spots are multiple strands held together, which made some other funky weights 😂 But, hey! It’s a scrap blanket, so who cares?

The nice thing about this blanket was that it let me use up a lot of scraps that I really had no idea what to do with otherwise. The few rows of softer blue in the middle of the afghan were three partial cakes of a bamboo silk yarn my mom gave me over five or six years ago—possibly even longer!—and that I’d never been able to find a use for, but they found a home in this afghan (it was sort of a “too much for a small project, not enough for a big project” situation, so this was really a perfect solution). Similarly, the wide stripe of muted green (between the single rows of grey and orange) about 3/4 of the way through the blanket is made of several skeins of fingering-weight yarn, also inherited from my mother, albeit more recently. She had bought a lot of it to use for a blanket, but wound up taking a different route and only using a few skeins. After sitting in her stash for a while, she decided she didn’t want them and passed them on to me. I made a bralette out of some of it this summer, but that didn’t even use a full skein! So, since the color went well with this blanket, I held it triple and used up most of what she had given me! I still have a partial skein left, I think, but I don’t know if I ever would have used it all otherwise!

[honneyfae]

the scrappy blanket CONSUMES

[umakmesic]