Here is an update to the post Update on Latest Granny Square Blanket and an update to my progress on my latest granny square blanket, this time made with Lion Brand Re-Spun – yarn made from recycled polyester.

I’ve completed the first 20 granny squares from the in various stages blocks I started with 100 centers:

I’ve run into an issue: I realized the three skeins I’ve been using is likely not enough to finish 100 granny square blocks:

Here are the other granny square blocks in progress – the remaining 80 are either just centers, or a center and the next row (there are 4 rows in total to the block):

This yarn is hard to find unless I order it online; and I do have it in other colorways (I found a bunch for $2.99 a skein compared to $8 – $10 a skein retail, while thrifting one day).

So I looked through my stash of Re-Spun and found some sort of similar colors that might work to add to the existing blocks in progress:

I am going to make some test granny square blocks adding the new yarns to see how I like them.

I might need to make more centers as I am not sure 100 blocks will be a big enough blanket, and I can use the new yarns (if I ended up liking them for this project) for centers.

I am determined not to buy more yarn and use what is in my stash!

Postscript

Here is the YouTube video again if you want to see the pattern. I taught myself to crochet this pattern from the video and I refer back to it whenever my mind has disconnected when I am skipping around on completing rows 🙂

A couple years ago on a whim I bought several skeins of Lion Brand yarn’s Re-Spun line of yarn. Re-Spun is yarn made from recycled plastic (see my post Plastic Yarn?).

I decided to make a granny square crocheted blanket with the yarn and crocheted up some of squares:

I hated them. They looked okay but they were too flimsy and didn’t feel right (not sure how to specifically describe it) and I didn’t think they would work well for a cozy blanket. I was crocheting them in the only granny square pattern I knew at the time.

So I abandoned them and put the granny squares, in various stages of completion, and the yarn away.

Then I taught myself via YouTube how to make the sunflower block granny square and made this blanket which is now sitting on the recliner in my living room:

Near the end of last year I stumbled upon a stash of the Re-Spun yarn in the thrift store for $1.99 a skein (it retails for $8.99 a skein now). I grabbed all they had (you can’t see all the colors in the image below but I’ll share more images of the yarn in a future post):

I think it was an “out of body” purchase experience, because when I got home I thought: “What were you thinking? You abandoned the project with the original three skeins of yarn!”

Then I remembered the sunflower pattern I loved (it made a very cozy blanket) and decided to do some frogging (I never heard this term before until I read it in the post of other bloggers and now I know it is unraveling your work) on the previous granny squares because it would be an atrocity to throw them away when I originally bought the yarn because it was “eco-friendly” – ha!

So after what seemed like tedious frogging, and then crocheting, I have made 58 centers for my new “flower” (they are not sunflower colors) granny square blanket:

I’m going to make a total of 100 centers and then move onto round 2.

Here is the pattern I am using in case you are interested:

I really like the instructional videos by Hooked by Robin!

So I am going to have a cozy “flower” granny square blanket for my library/dining room area. I’ll update you all on the progress.

Postscript

Little follow up on the post ScrapHappy April 2026: Update on the EPP Quilt:

I made myself work on TEDIOUS sewing the sides of the hexie flowers on the remaining 50 blocks. If I don’t start doing it, I won’t have anything to report for May’s ScrapHappy post on this quilt!