Every year as the weather starts to get colder I like to pull out one of my longstanding scrappy blanket knitting projects. Yes I said one of the them, because I have more than one (and actually there’s a crochet one, too!). I love being able to use what I have to make something beautiful, and one day I’ll have all those blankets finished and I’ll never be cold again.
The Mindful Mosaic Blanket from Berroco would be great to work just as a scrappy blanket, making each square a different color based on what you have left over from other projects.
But the idea behind it is a little more meaningful. It’s meant to be a mood blanket, which is like a temperature blanket but it’s about your feelings rather than the weather outside.
Choose a range of colors to represent different feelings, and stitch a square each day to reflect your mood. The sample blanket uses a worsted weight cotton yarn, but you can use whatever you like or a mix if you’re working from stash.
Instead of buying new yarn for this project, you could make it both a mood blanket and a stash busting project by choosing yarn you already have to represent different moods. For example, any purple yarn from your stash might be designated as happy, so even if the squares don’t all match you know what they meant. Or you can choose an odd ball each day that represents how you feel even if the colors don’t always match the same feeling.
I love this idea as a way to track almost a year (the pattern says it takes around 357 squares, but you could always add more) especially if you need help paying attention to your emotions. But I also think it would be a great winter project to just make with the odd balls in your house. It’s sure to make you feel a bit of comfort either way.
You can grab this free pattern from Berroco. And if you’d rather crochet your feelings, there’s a crochet version, too.
[Photo: Berroco]
