Tara over at Blonde Chicken Boutique got sucked in a couple of weeks back (check her post on granny squares for some great links), which got me thinking about it again, which got the ball rolling on my current sock yarn scrap granny project.

Now Amy over at The Hook and I has a great post up about granny squares, including some basic charting and construction options, and a book in the works by she and Julie Holetz on granny square projects. Can’t wait to see that!

And my pile of granny squares just keeps on growin’.  I have a glut of sock yarn, so they may go on forever!  There are worse things, to be sure.  It feels like a guess the beans in the jar game, how many squares are in a basket of sock yarn scraps?

Want to start your own granny square project?  Start with this great tutorial over at the Purl Bee.

Ever since I’ve seen the crocheted bracelet pattern from Laura Normandin of Wren Handmade on the Purl Bee blog, I can’t stop crocheting these adorable little tidbits of jewelry.  I’ve done some in tiny cotton thread, in heftier pearl cotton, and in sock yarn scraps.  The sock yarn version flies by on a size B hook!  Simply chain on fewer stitches (subtract from the pattern’s suggested starting numbers by multiples of four), and go to town!

These bracelets were crocheted in our Luxe Merino fine cashmere blend, in Peabody and Sucre.  So soft!