Snuggle up under a true treasure, a squishy blanket made from all of your favourite scraps. The connected blanket is everything I love about scrappy blanket knitting. Ease, rhythm and the calm meditation of a pattern that I can memorise and pick up and put down at any point without loosing where I am.
One of my best yarn friends is the true queen of scrappy blankets, so how could I not think of her when working on this. A project to make us feel connected. A blanket to pass on, to make whoever cuddles under it feel connected to me. And every square connected to the next, no cast offs in between.

This blanket is worked in diagonal columns, starting with just one square, increasing 2 squares every column and then beginning to decrease once it is as wide as you wish it to be. The join as you go construction means no sewing, and the increases and decreases are easily places so that you don’t have to keep track of a mid row decrease.

Gather up your scraps and a pair of 3.25mm needles and get connecting!

This pattern is written for your sock yarn scraps and minis, make your blanket as big as you’d like then start to decrease. Sample shown in Lay Family Yarn.