Perhaps most importantly, working with leftover yarn challenges your creativity, encouraging you to create new things in unique ways that you might not have thought of before. Many designers have figured out how to do just that and then shared their findings in patterns. Here are ten scrap yarn crochet patterns to inspire you. Remember that you can always adapt the pattern with your own ideas. In addition to the classic granny square, there are many variations that you can mix-and-match when making afghans and other scrap yarn projects. Before you dig into any other scrap yarn crochet patterns, start with granny squares and see what you can make. Start with this crochet scarf to get a true sense of what you can do with scrap yarn crafting. You can easily put together a variety of different yarns to create motifs as well as rows, joining them into the shape of a scarf. Once you’re done with this, you’ll be able to easily make your own scrap yarn crochet patterns! The reason that this works well as a scrap yarn crochet pattern is because it’s designed as a color-blocked design. Choose three colors of equal weight from your stash and make this scarf quickly and efficiently. What makes this a great scrap yarn crochet project is that each of the individual strands only uses up a little bit of yarn. Each one has a different stitch pattern, so you can create a variety of different mix-and-match designs using whatever bits of yarn you have left in your stash. This is a rectangular crochet shawl pattern (or a large blanket scarf). You could adapt the pattern to make a larger blanket as well. This design primarily uses basic crochet stitches but there are some clusters for texture. There is a lot of fringe on either end of this wrap. You can use short bits of scrap yarn for that fringe. In fact, anytime that you’re going to use fringe on a crochet project, you might want to see what bits you have leftover in your stash. The designer has offered her own color list for the way that she made her bright rainbow striped blanket. However, you can just use whichever scrap yarn that you have in the order that you think will look best for your project.
You can work double-stranded, using one color throughout and adding scrap yarn as the second color.You can join scrap yarn motifs with one color and add a border around the whole thing in the same color.Or you can separate rows of scrap yarn colors with the same color throughout.
The latter is what you’ll do in this scrappy yarn crochet blanket pattern. It’s made using diamond stitch. It’s very similar to a granny stripe, except that you use groupings of 2 dc across the row instead of 3 dc.
