Alright Ladies...(pic included)

[MommaChelle]

I've decided to make my stepson a rectangle granny square afghan for his bed with yarn colors I have in my stash that I dont regularly use so I want to use them up and this is the perfect way. So now I ask, how would you use these colors together, in what order for an afghan?

 

I also have burgundy and black, some bright orange and yellow, bright green (the RH kids), white...Also on most of these skeins (those listed above and the ones in the picture) I do have more than one skein of.

 

 

In order from top left to right, then bottom left to right:

RH Gold, RH Buff, RH Aran Fleck, RH brown, RH darker brown, RH Paddy Green, Wool-Ease Blue, Wool-Ease Navy, Mainstays True Navy, and RH Blue. Then I have RH Burgundy, RH and Mainstays Black, White, RH Brt. Orange, RH Brt Yellow, RH Kids Green, and some scrap red yarn.

 

His comforter is a medium blue, with a burgundy sheet set.

 

Should I just mesh it all together? LOL I do want to use up a lot of these yarns. What would you do?

[HollyM]

Hey Chelle!

The <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/ilexmi/Seanghan.jpg" target="_new">Rectangle Granny Ghan</a> I did for my son is about 5'x4'. I used RH yarn and it used 1lb 12 oz of it. I just weighed the ghan on my kitchen scale <img border=0 src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/toothygrin.gif" /> I used a K hook so it's not a super dense ghan (my son is a very "hot" kid so I didn't want a heavy blanket)

 

I think your best bet would be to size up the amount of yarn you have and use the 3-5 that go best together and stand on their own as good colors rather than matching his bed.

 

I think gold/burgandy/brown will work well (and still go with his room) You could use black to seperate colors and/or border the ghan.

 

Hope that helps!

Holly

[threeolivemartini]

here is what i would do.. i am a fly by the seat of my pants kind of girl..

 

i would start it.. with what ever colour spoke to you first.. then work til it was done.. grab the next colour and keep in trucking.. and work til all your small skeins were gone.. no particular or rhyme or reason..

[pfirsch]

Well, depending on the type of granny square pattern, you could just do one row of each (or 2 or 3 or more depending on how much yarn you have) and it will turn out fine. Mixing the colors in a granny square will be too busy.

 

If you were doing a solid aghan, you could just do a transition type thing with the colors working with two strands at a time so that one section blends into the next visually.

[MommaChelle]

Thanks gals! I guess I will start with one color and see what next color would look good next to it and go from there? The blues, burgundy's, and aran fleck I would like to use up, and maybe throw in brown and buff here and there?

[MarvieN]

I agree with Beth, just go from one to the next as they speak to you. That's what I'm going to do with my son's ripple... which I really will start one of these days :rotfl

[LI Roe]

I did something similiar but I did it in all dcs with my little balls of leftover yarn in every color I had. I just put them together on a table, next to each other to see how I liked the color combo and then moved them around if I didn't like it. I also tried not to have two shades of blue (for instance) next to each other but would separate them. Also did the same with the ripple stitch. When I ran out of a color, I just joined the next. And they came out really nice. Hope I have made sense. Have fun with it.

 

LI Roe

[Guest SamplerLady]

I would start with the color you have the least amount of. The inner rounds take up much less yarn than the outer rounds. You can transition of one color family to another by the time your reach the outer rounds. IOW, colors that don't go well together can be space way far away from each other and used on the outer rounds.

[MommaChelle]

Thank you all! Here's what I accomplished yesterday:

 

 

In order from center is: blue, aran fleck, brown, true navy, buff, burgundy, and navy blue. Then the colors start again in order. Im thinking that it should only take this last color sequence for it to be big enough, but if not then I will do a third sequence and have it extra big.

 

My stepson does not know its for him and I asked his and hubbys advice last night on the colors and combination and they both said "it looks fine" I dont want fine lol, I want great! I would like to have it finished by the time he gets home from school and have it laying across his bed when he goes in there

 

My cat loves crochet ) Or just yarn in general LOL I've decided to use the big wad of the blue wool-ease to crochet up a blanket for my cat. She seems to love the smell of it, and the reason it's in a big wad like that is because she got into it at one point and had fun with it - so might as well let her have it in a blanket!

[Guest Jen X]

Oooh, pretty! I love the colors together I bet your stepson will think it's more than fine when he finds out it's for him

 

By the way, cats in generally like wool stuff because often some lanolin is left in it and they go for that. Unfortunately my kitty shows her affection for it by scratching our two wool rugs Your kitty will love having her own wool blankie!

 

Jen

[Mom w/a Motif]

I think he is going to love it! Very good color combinations, too.

 

Tina

[threeolivemartini]

that looks really nice

[MommaChelle]

Thank you

[faithpa76]

Love the color combination! I wish I could crochet that fast, lol, that would take me more hours than I care to admit!

[CraftyChristine]

<span style="font-family:comic sans ms; color:purple;">Looking great so far! I really like the lighter colors surrounding the darker colors...it makes it pop!

 

Looks like you'll have this done in no time!</span>

[RebeccaVelasquez]

that looks really really nice! and you did all that in one day!?!

 

 

oh my, i've got to speed up!!!

[MommaChelle]

Yep ! I am on the last burgundy color with 4 1/2 more rounds of it, then the last round of navy blue - then to wash it and it will be done!

[Deb]

Chelle... that is amazing! :thumbsup You did good girlie!

[Nashville Crocheter]

I love the way it has turned out so far. Great way to put those colors together!

[emeraldmoon]

I think its looking good so far

[MommaChelle]

Thanks! I only have 3 rounds left to go and I will take a final picture and post it over in current projects.

[SurendraSkye]

Have you ever done a trail of tears afgan? Don't do it in dc, us sc...and instead of using the back loop, use the loop behind that one. Its takes a million rows, but each row is a different color, and completly random. You could start one with your left overs, and just add to it, every time you have a little left over.

 

I like to do this much better than granny squares with leftovers, because I hate putting the squares together

 

:w-angel

Heather

[MommaChelle]

Hi Heather! I have done the apache tears afghan, using sc and going through the back loop. It took me many many months to finish. For the granny square, what I did was do a rectangle granny square and keep going around and around till it was the right size - not make a bunch of granny squares to sew together

 

However, that is a great afghan (the apache tears) pattern to use up leftover yarn for!

[HollyM]

Great job! <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/bounce012.gif" />

 

Holly