Time for a bit of stash-busting:
The colours I used are: Scheepjes softfun Snow (2412), Orchid (2657), Lavender (2658), Glacial mist (2646), Arctic (2630) and Green Tea (2639), Drops cotton merino Powder Pink (05) and King Cole Drifter for baby Fairy Dust (3355). Some of these were 20g balls from the Scheepjes Softfun pastel pack of mini-balls.
The solid Granny squares are an Attic 24 pattern, and mine are four rounds each. I was able to make four squares from each 20g mini-ball using a 4.5mm hook. The blanket is 30 squares overall and I made up some extra squares from the variegated yarn.
I used this tutorial by ‘Hooked by Robin’ for a continuous tight join as you go. It involves removing your hook after each stitch in order to pull the loop through the adjacent square, and is actually quite quick once you get the hang of it. I used this diagram from ‘Wool thread paint’ to remind me of the joining sequence.
On the plus side this was a good way of using up mini-balls of yarn, and I do think that the colours are pleasing together. On the minus side I am not sure that the cotton-acrylic mix of Softfun is ideally suited to this project. Some of my squares ended up as slightly different sizes, and my tension definitely varied during the join-as-you go stage, and the yarn is not very forgiving of this. The Drops cotton merino has a bit more give in it, and I think would make a better blanket overall.
Any way I have learned something new, and it was all done with yarn from my stash so that’s a win!
Simply hooked 
