I hate waste, and have squirreled away every part-ball from every baby blanket I have ever made (which is quite a lot now) and it occurred to me that I could use them to make scrappy blankets. Here is what I came up with:

The blankets are made in Granny Clusters, but with only two trebles per cluster, and I used a 4.5mm hook. Every third row is in Stylecraft Life cream (2305) and I carried this yarn up the sides of the blanket. All the other rows are in individual colours from my stash, so quite a lot of sewing in of ends was required.

I started with a chain of 91 stitches (88 plus 3 for turning) to give me 44 clusters for the width, and the blankets are 84 rows long, the first and the last row both being cream. Overall they weigh just under 300g and measure 78 cm long x 56 cm wide. The border is two rows of (UK) double crochet, which I think was all that was needed to firm the edges up a bit.

What did I learn? That I still lack confidence mixing yarns and colours; that even though it was a ‘random’ blanket I ended up making rules for myself; and that you can have hours of fun with 200g or so of scrap yarn!