Granny Square Obsession Throw

I started this on a whim with no plan other than to give my shoulder a break from knitting on the shawl I’d been working on pretty intensely. Granny squares are soothing for me, mediative…crochet in general feels that way, I think because of the rhythmic, fluid motion.

I decided to use up my worsted weight scraps first and got around 30 squares. But by then I was all in on this obsession, so I searched my stash for single skeins of worsted and found three (which surprised me that that was all there were, but I apparently tend toward DK instead), so I pulled those for the project. One of a light gray that I’m pretty sure I dyed. One is a LMFA in the 911 Butterfly colorway, and the last is a skein of Spinning Fates that I got years ago at an IK&S, knit into a potato chip scarf which ended up being too short so I ripped it out and now I’m reusing it.

I think I am also going to use the rest of my DK scraps, as, after some playing, I realized there’s only about an 1/8″ difference in square size between worsted and DK using a G hook. (I’d started out with an H for the original worsted squares, but I like the G squares better, so I’ll make them all work.)

My default plan for this is a blanket/throw, but it’ll really depend on how many squares I end up with in total. Right now I’m just enjoying the process of making them.

6/24 – This is going to hibernate for now, as I have other timely projects that need attention.

2/15/24 – In the midst of an office organization, pulled this bag of squares out. Decided to see how many I have: 108. I’m one short for a layout on 12×9 squares.

I have no plan at this point to make enough squares to have a giant blanket, so I think, in an effort to get this finished and out of limbo, I’m going to crochet one more square and then set to putting a solid colored last round on all of the squares and join as I go. It’ll be a reasonable throw sized blanket. Not sure if I want to dye yarn for the edge rounds or just use white/undyed. Also, I need to mix up the squares before I start do the various colors are adequately disbursed throughout.

3/22 – I’m on row 10 of 12, and I have a BAZILLION squares left of a couple of the yarns I used. There’s no way I can spread them out in any kind of even manner at this point, despite trying to use at least two of each in every row for the past several rows.

My solution to this is to make the blanket larger. I’m going to go with 15 rows of 10 squares instead of 12 rows of 9. That means I need to make 43 (I think? I did the math but I don’t have it here) more squares (I was still short one square from my original configuration too). Luckily, a) I love making granny squares and b) I always have a stash of DK and worsted weight scraps just waiting to be used. I could also do some with fingering held double. I’ll need at least one more ball of the Mountain Tweed Merino DK I’m using for the last round and joining but that’s not a problem.