December 31, 2015

CO 32 on larger needle.
Placed marker in center.
k2tog, pm, ssk every even row (towards the tail of the cast on)
As soon as two stitches are left on needle, k2tog, and pull loop through.

Getting a 4 inch square out of each one, after blocking. Nice and uniform!

This will continue to be my ongoing project for worsted, dk, and aran weight scraps. :D

February 24, 2016

Dk yarns make holier squares, and I don’t think they’ll look right with the others. Ended up holding lace weight scraps with the thinner worsteds and dks to get consistently gauged squares.

I subscribed to Jimmy Beans Wool Beanie Bags, and the random assortment of yarns every month are really making each square look different!

July 6, 2016

I finally started stitching some squares together into groups of 4. Had to do some research as to how to sew them together as almost every mitered square blanket pattern out there has you “join as you go” but I really wanted a scrap eating project that I didn’t have to plan out to have look cohesive in the end. I wanted to make squares willy nilly and then assemble them later.

I don’t want to mix all the crazy colors into one blanket, so I’m grouping the squares into color families as I sew them together. I realize this means multiple blankets over a much longer period of time, but it also means easier gifts and a truly never ending project for my scraps and other yarns that just don’t work out for other projects. I’m really happy with this idea!

I finally settled on arranging them into groups of 4 with the cast on edges all going around the outside, and then only needing to seam garter to garter on the inside. That way when I stitch the squares of 4 into 16s, I’ll be stitching all the cast on edges together and it will be easier to make it look even and consistent as opposed to some garter edges being seamed to some cast on edges.

So far so good. I really like this video for seaming the garter edges together: https://youtu.be/P1myty2SefE