What do you do with your leftover yarn balls?

[DorisAnn]

Thanks Crochetdiva, When I decided to learn to crochet I bought a book and I was so happy with my first granny square and so horrified when I realize I needed about 80 more of them to make anything from them. That's a long story I won't tell here. Love/Hate granny squares but I know I have made thousands of them over the last 58 years.

This afghan is so simple to make. I put a link to the pattern page in the post with the other photo on this string or you can go to the link for my blog at the bottom of my post. I have several afghans on the "35 Squares" page. One is a box stitch square, one is a regular granny and this one is a combo of both.

For the 35 squares if you make 1 square each weekday and 2 squares on Saturday and Sunday you will have enough for the afghan in less than 30 days with almost no effort. The continuous join and border finish it quickly and in just a few minutes a day you can have a lovely afghan to keep, donate or gift.

The Coco Granny Afghan I posted here has 48 squares and it is a bit larger than the 35 squares. You can gather up your extra basic granny blocks, or make new ones. Choose a basic color to join them, do one or two rows of that basic color (depending on your style of granny block ) then run the continuous join and border. The squares come out about 7 X 7 inches that way. So very easy and surprisingly fast.

[SusansSoulShines]

Thanks Crochetdiva, When I decided to learn to crochet I bought a book and I was so happy with my first granny square and so horrified when I realize I needed about 80 more of them to make anything from them. That's a long story I won't tell here. Love/Hate granny squares but I know I have made thousands of them over the last 58 years.

This afghan is so simple to make. I put a link to the pattern page in the post with the other photo on this string or you can go to the link for my blog at the bottom of my post. I have several afghans on the "35 Squares" page. One is a box stitch square, one is a regular granny and this one is a combo of both.

For the 35 squares if you make 1 square each weekday and 2 squares on Saturday and Sunday you will have enough for the afghan in less than 30 days with almost no effort. The continuous join and border finish it quickly and in just a few minutes a day you can have a lovely afghan to keep, donate or gift.

The Coco Granny Afghan I posted here has 48 squares and it is a bit larger than the 35 squares. You can gather up your extra basic granny blocks, or make new ones. Choose a basic color to join them, do one or two rows of that basic color (depending on your style of granny block ) then run the continuous join and border. The squares come out about 7 X 7 inches that way. So very easy and surprisingly fast.

Such a beautiful piece! You've really got the calculations for the squares figured out so good, that's helpful info! I save all scraps. even snips to stuff things with, longer pieces or to make flowers and such, I just never throw away any yarn!

[mash52]

Oh, what a beautiful afghan. So, many pretty colors.