This was made entirely from scraps of yarn. I sorted all my oddments into twelve colour families. Sometimes an oddment will fit equally well in two or three families. Once you have made piles you can look at them with half-closed eyes and spot anything that is seriously out of place.

The yarns were mainly DK because that is what I use most often so was what I had left over. They were all kinds of fibres. Mixing different fibres is never a problem provided that you remember to wash the finished item according to the washing instructions for the most fragile.

Once the piles were made I tied short lengths together to make a large ball for each colour. The knots and trailing ends are a feature of the finished afghan so you need to decide, at the start, whether to have them short and even, or long, or totally random. If you wait until the end to do this you will have a big trimming job to do.

I used the colour I had most of to make a thirteenth square and joined this to its partner leaving an unstitched side so that the afghan can be folded inside and made into a pillow. It is a nice tidy way to keep an afghan and it makes it very east to carry about or just leave in the car or something.