Easy Stash Buster Crochet Blanket Scrapghan Tutorial

Hello everyone, welcome to the stitch team, so today I'm going to show you how to break up that pile of thread. We're going to make something pretty and practical, so grab every skein you have, every tail in every little bit. It doesn't matter how much you have left for something or how little it is, it doesn't matter what color it is, what type it is, what size it is, just grab every last little ball you have lying around and you don't know what to do with it. We're going to make a

blanket

today, we're going to use a method I like to call color piecing and there are two ways to make a very, very

easy

blanket

, if you feel more comfortable with a moving motif based blanket making project then you can use this color piecing technique to make granny squares and I have a little granny square throw that I made using this color piecing technique this week and since we are going to use two strands at a time and a really big hook, this really comes together. join quickly, I love this, there is no wrong way to join the yarn and it looks so pretty and so wild when you finish, this is the crazy quilt of the

crochet

world, the other blanket that you can make and that I am going to demonstrate to you. today we just used the half double

crochet

stitch and it's a row by row blanket, so it's not necessarily as mobile as the other one, but it's definitely just as pretty.

These blankets are very warm and they rise very quickly because we are going to use a really big hook and two threads at a time, so let me explain in a little more detail how we are going to do that, so this is really a strange project. And my weirdo, I mean the things you left over later. a project, maybe these are some balls of yarn you've collected from friends or things you picked up on a whim, you never finish the project or you've decided you don't particularly like working with them. I have a few examples of each, so this is a baby thread.

I ended up buying a bunch a long time ago and as you can see it splits and gets really fluffy so it's really nice when you're first doing the project but it picks up really easily so it's not really great. choice for high traffic items like sweaters, why not? Both are definitely going on my scrap-breaking blanket. This is a small ball. I have a lot of small scraps left over. These are, in fact, the best types of weirdos. So small, small amounts are the best to work with on this type of color changing blanket because the colors will change quickly and obviously I'll show you what I mean and then anything else so I have a few. schemes I used a little bit, not only will I not be using them for any specific projects later, but those are the kind of oddballs you'll want to dig out of your

stash

once you have all your yarn.

The first thing you should do is separate it into two piles: light colors and dark colors. Some colors like this pretty mint green and this bright yellow could fall into either category. They are light and there are exactly dark colors, but they are bold colors or at least this bright yellow is so it's okay if you have a bunch of colors that you're not really sure which camp they belong to because you'll find that you need those slightly in-between colors to tailor that you're making progress and I'll get to go deeper into that once I start cutting out my colors, so with that being said, I have one more comment to make about yarn if you're going to take your entire

stash

and you've lost tags and you're not sure what fibers might be dealing with, so let's say you know some of it is acrylic but some of it could be wool or cotton or you're not really sure if you can make an exception in the case of this project and mix the fibers, it's not always a good idea to do so. , especially if you are giving something as a gift because you have to give washing instructions, but if you mix the fibers in this project, it's okay, you just have to promise yourself that you will wash it by hand. blanket and let it dry flat, in other words, treat it like you would a very delicate wool so you don't end up with the blanket out of alignment because the wool fibers want to stand up and the cotton fibers want to relax, so treat everything like the softest fiber. possible delicate one that you worked on that said, let us grab our gigantic hook so you can use an 8 millimeter one or a 9 millimeter one or even a 10 millimeter hook if you want to grab your makeup, come on.

Head over to the craft table and get started on our stash busting cubes. You need a large crochet hook, so what I'm using is 8 millimeters. You can use nine millimeters, even 10, if you have it lying around, you need a tape measure so you can decide how. In length you want your blanket to be a pair of scissors and because of the size of the hook we are using to knit the ends, you can get a very large ID needle like the one I have or you can even use another crochet hook to sort of tuck it in. everything and I'll show you how to do it later.

Obviously you'll need all the scraps and once everything is assembled we can get started. You'll want to have your tape measure handy. large hook and you're going to take one ball of dark yarn and one ball of light yarn, no matter how long they don't need to be the same length, in fact you can cut them and make them smaller as we go. It doesn't matter if you just want to start with one dark and one light strand, we'll treat them both as one strand and tie a slipknot. Remember that you will be using them as a single thread, so be sure. that you always have them both running through your fingers at the same time throughout this entire project, so we'll start chaining together how many chains, it doesn't really matter what you're most interested in is the measurement. whatever you want, so for example, I'm going to make a blanket that is 36 inches wide, so my beginning of a row of base chains will be 36 inches long.

I'm going to continue chaining and measuring until the length of the chain I have equals 36 inches. I finished chaining my foundation row, it's 36 inches long and I actually made 80 chains for myself, so you can see it's already attached to my yarn. I kept everything the same color for now just because I want to set my base row, but later this can end up being whatever it wants to be and I'm going to work on my queues as I go and show you how we do it, so once have finished your base chain, one more chain this is our turning chain and we are going to work the half double crochet stitch now the half double crochet stitch sometimes appears with a single chain or two turning chains depending on the author of the pattern but if you use a single Turning the chain with the half double crochet stitch, you get a slightly tighter row or a softer edge, at least I think, so we'll only use single turning chains throughout this pattern, so you'll skip that chain because it's your turning chain, find the second chain, so the second chain from the hook and you're going to do a half double crochet in it so that you wrap it once around your hook, find that chain and remember that you want to work to through both threads, so there is my light. there's my dark I'm going to take a loop there's my light my dark my light my dark my light dark but you can see there are three types of loops here wrap and pull back through everything there's a half double crochet find the next half From the double crochet stitch into it, find the next half double crochet stitch and that is establishing your base chain row.

You're just going to do a half double crochet in each chain from the beginning, so for me there were 80 base chains. base chains with one as a turning chain, so when you get to the end of row one you should have 80 stitches, so whatever the number of original base chains is, that's exactly how many stitches you should have at the end of row one, so remember when you're picking up a stitch and working in a loop. You don't want to split those two threads. Remember to treat them as a single thread. Imagine these are huge layers in a loosely wound ball of yarn, so continue halfway down. weaving in each base chain remember that each base chain consists of two strands or two strands and just work from the beginning if you run out of strand halfway it might look like this.

I'm just going to cut my dark thread. Well, I ran out of dark thread, what do I do right? I'm going to grab another dark thread. I think I'll get this pretty blue one. I'm going to take one end of the new ball, the end of the ball that I finished, hold them together, give me a length of them, see how they are parallel and I'm going to tie a knot, so I'm just going to make a loop, pass the ends through it and pull it hard and yes. I want these long pieces of yarn in there because it will make it easier to work on my blanket as I go, so don't worry, I'll show you this a couple of times.

I'm going to continue knitting until I actually get to that knot and there it is, the knot was absorbed through my last stitch. I'm going to pull both ends and then hold it along the bottom of my row of foundation chains and just crochet especially if you find it too complicated, especially in the initial row of foundation chains, but if you find it too complicated, don't worry, you can let all the long threads hang loose and you can go and weave them all again. at the end when you've finished your blanket, just getting to the end of row one, I'm working my last half double crochet into my last chain, remember the chain is both threads together and that's it, you should have the same number. of stitches in row one like you had in your row of base chains: your turn chain, so for me it was 80 80 chains plus the base or sorry plus one turn chain, you skip the turn chain, you have double crochets in each chain Go back to the beginning, so I have 80 stitches and you can take a moment and count them once you're done.

We need a rotating chain, so we chain one turn of our work, that is the rotating chain, so you ignore it, this is the first point. We are working and we are going to do a half double crochet in the first stitch and we will continue. Remember that each point should look the same. That's why you are using a big hook so you can see clearly where you need to place your hook but you don't want to split your work or you should say you don't want to split your yarn so make sure as you go and so you get used to it so you can see clearly where you are putting your Hook, is the entire point you want to work on, so this is all the benefit of using a large hook on this project and that's it, you can continue doing half double crochet, but jada, what happens if I stay without thread?

Good question. I need to tie another ball of yarn this time, it's going to be my light yarn that's breaking or running out, so I'm just going to cut it off here, so since my light yarn is running out, I need to grab another ball of light yarn, huh? take one at random, it doesn't matter, the light is light, darker, darker, so place the two ends parallel to each other like this, make a loop as you want and then take the two ends, pull it through the loop and just tie everything nice and tight. In a knot like that, leave that long tail there because that makes it easier to knit later or as you go, it's completely up to you, then continue working that half double crochet.

Whoa, okay, my thread, you can see pretty quickly when you miss it, make sure you have the mode, so there are my two tails. I have reached my knot. I'll just place them on top of my work, carry them loosely with my fingers and work on them and there's my next point. I'm going to do a half double crochet and work just above the two tails, this helps to weave them nice and tight as I go, but I think if that's a little tricky for you, don't worry. That's why we have a yarn needle or even a smaller crochet hook and we can leave them all at the end and now my color has changed again and I'm still working the same stitch, but that's how it's already forming, so there's the first little bit. color I changed it to this blue, then the light changed again, so I went from that kind of light purple color to this nice light beige and the more you change your colors, the more frequently you have color changes, the more interesting. and somewhat exciting the pattern aspect of creating your own variegated yarn.

Well, I've really been making my way around here and I've got a pot, oh, I don't know how many rows I'm into on this. I get so into color piecing that I forget to count my rows but I don't forget to count my stitches and that's something I want to remind you to do that at the end of each row you should have the same number of stitches in each row as the previous row, so for me that's 80 and every row I make should have 80 stitches and that will keep my edges nice and straight up and down at the end of each row.

Make sure you string one together and carefully twist your work as you are blank, it gets bigger and bigger, and bigger and bigger, you want to be careful not to shake it, you also don't want to catch your strands of thread because that can stop the process and then Keep working. half double crochet back and forth one more small stitch I want to add. I'm going to show you a little bit of the blanket here. I'm going to get up so there's enough left at this point and what you have to remember this is so beautiful what you have to remember is that when you run out of a light color or decide to cut it because you've had enough, you tie another light color when you do the same with the dark one, where is my dark one?

It's around here somewherepart so when you are done with your dark or it runs out you tie another Dart this follows the light and dark run parallel and it's another good idea not to always cut the thread at the same time so I know sometimes you can't help it if the balls are very small but you want to let the balls light up one for a while while you change the dark or vice versa and that has the nice effect of helping to blend the colors a little bit so for example you can see I was using this nice bright mint colored baby yarn for quite a while.

A few rows in and my dark yarn was shifting so I had coral. I think I read mm-hmm, excuse me, I ran into a little bit of red there and then I changed it to blue before cutting my light green, except quite a few and tying it up with a new light color, the other thing you might want to consider is that if you don't have much of a color like, for example, I don't have much of this bright yellow, you might want to do that either. roll it into smaller balls or just keep in mind that as you go you only want to use a little bit so that then in blanket type you can add a little bit more and then maybe a little bit more and so on. and so on, that way the color is dispersed evenly around the entire project and it still looks random, but at least the color moves with some sort of balance throughout the entire project, which helps keep everything nice , as it approaches.

The end of what I think will be my last row, this is pretty long now and I'm almost out of all my scraps so it's not a good way to gauge when you're ready again. It's so long. however you want or run out of thread once you're done, no big deal, you just cut the thread like you would with anything else and fast enough. Now the beauty of these types of double yarn blankets is that they are quite strong and firm on their own so you don't need to add a border to give it strength, so I like this raw edge look.

I really don't want to interrupt the color swatch I've done throughout by gluing it on. on one edge, so I'll leave it edgeless, it's strong enough and doesn't require anything up and down the raw edges. I like how the bottom row looks, there are no weird spaces or anything, all I have to do now is knit. my ends and I was completely done at the beginning of this

tutorial

. I mentioned that you could use a large eye needle or another hook because I used a large hook to make my stitches. You can see that a small crochet hook so this This is my 4.25, the one that I normally use, it fits very snuggly through the actual stitches that I made, so if you don't have a needle with an eye big enough to accommodate two threads or thick threads, then you can weave the tails this way. my tail this is where it ends.

I'm going to go back about five points and I'm just going to put my hook through them, not too many at a time, there we go and then I'm going to grab my ends and pull them back, okay? I've pulled them through about five of those stitches and then just like you would if you were using a sewing needle, you want to pull them back the other way, so I'm going to do it the other way around through those five stitches, but I'm just I'm going to leave halfway through the last one because I wanted to go over a piece of that stitch.

Remember that when you're weaving the ends, that little bit of back and forth, back and forth, but under and over helps keep things from sliding around. falling apart later, especially if you are going to wash this vigorously in the wash tub. I'm going to go back one stitch now, go through all the same ones again, but just pick up, excuse me, a piece of that last stitch, this should be the last one. knit and it just doesn't go all the way, that's fine and there you have it so you can knit all your tails using a smaller hook in this project because of the gigantic hook you use to make all your stitches and there you have a beautiful blanket made very quickly with a large hook and two strands together and you've blown out your yarn stash, so you've cleared up a little more space in your craft room and made something really pretty. and handy to boot, thank you so much for tuning in this week everyone.

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