Update to My Scrap Yarn Blanket Project

If you have read my post Picking Colors and Wool for Knitting Projects, then you know about the blanket I have been knitting from yarn scraps. Well, I'm still working on it.

I now have four balls of yarn made of scraps I started collected in at least 2016. One of my favorite parts of this ever going project is when I get to a section of the ball where I can remember what I made with that yarn. The section I'm currently working on is with yarn left over from one of the first ever baby blankets that I made.

What kind of Yarn is in This Blanket?

If you're looking at the blanket and wondering what yarns I've used, what brands and materials. I'm sorry to tell you I don't remember all of them. This blanket is made up of all kinds of yarns from different brands and weights.

This gives the blanket the eclectic look I was hoping for, while also providing a lot of different textures. I connect all of my yarn using the magic knot. Let me just say that the magic knot is only really magical if the yarns being joined are very similar either in content or weight. This brings me to my next point of discussion.

What Problems Occur in This Project?

The main problem is that the knots break or a whole appears. This happens quite regularly since I'm constantly moving the piece around, and primarily happens between two yarns that are just too different in weight. The knots can also break between two yarns with very different contents. For instance a yarn that is mostly wool and one that is a shiny acrylic.

I solve this issue with patches. At first I would embroider gold stars around the hole after closing sewing it up, and then placing a felt patch on the purl side of the blanket to cover up the messy side of the embroidery. This method did not work as well as I would like because, not only am I not all that great at embroidery yet, but the stars were also just too clunky.

What I have started doing more recently is sewing up the hole in the blanket, and then embroidering gold snowflake-like stars on two pieces of black felt and then sewing those onto the blanket as a double sided patch.

What is left on the Scrap Yarn Blanket Project?

There is quite a bit left to go! Right now it's only about 14.5 inches long and I have four balls of scrap yarn still to work through. The more I crochet and knit the more scrap yarn I will have to add to the project. I hope to make this blanket large enough to be a proper blanket.

I will try to update with blogs more regularly on this project! Is there anything in particular you would like to know about the process?