What's the best way to attach small woven squares together? (See details.)

I am interested in hearing the suggestions you get from this also as I have knitted squares that I want to attach and don’t want to crochet and I don’t like to crochet either so Hope you get some good info!

@lollipop: I’ve attached knitted squares together just by simple stitching. A knit piece is loftier than a woven square, and the “puff factor” hid the stitches pretty well! I made a while sweater that way, from rectangles knitted from bits and pieces of homespun, and it looks faboo! I bet that would work for yours.

@laureth Are you talking about using the yarn to sew them together or ? I would think you would have to use the yarn instead of ‘sewing thread’. It might take a long time if you made a good size ‘quilt or comforter’ all the squares together that is.

Mostly I use yarn. When I made the sweater from knit rectangles, I just left a long “tail” of yarn on each one and that was enough to attach one to its neighbor.

Do you do like a ‘whip stitch’ type of thing? OR something else….you got me to thinking maybe I can finish all the squares I have knitted and be able to assemble them into a blanket…possibly.

I took a class and wasn’t able to go all the way through the class so I am missing some of the squares, but then the teacher had said to ‘crochet’ them together when we done and I am NOT good at doing that so I was going to donate it some place and just ‘forget the whole thing’!

Below the throw on the page you linked to there’s an example of single die-looking block. You can sort of see how they’ve done that one with a darning needle and the same color yarn. When you get to working with multiple colors on one block and joining that to another you need to pick a color and go with it.

When you’re doing finishing seams for knitted projects you have some options depending on the type of seam you want. For a blind seam I like the mattress stitch shown here. Scroll down to “Finishing” and they show several types of simple seam techniques there. Which one you pick depends a bit on what type of stitch you’re trying to join to which type of stitch.

@lollipop – I’ve mostly used something like an overcast stitch

@cyndyh – thanks! I did see that block you’re talking about, and I guess if I use the same color yarn as one of the blocks that it borders, things will be okay. I was hoping there was something more elegant out there, though.

I’ve done very little weaving and a lot more knitting and crocheting. If there is a more elegant join for weaving I don’t know what it is.

I will say that a lot of people who don’t like the crocheted joins tend to use a hook that’s too big or too small so their tension isn’t right for the pieces they’re trying to join. If you get a bunching or a curling on your edge when you try the crocheted joining that’s what’s happening to your work. Cheers!

You could try a ‘fishing line’ type of thread. It’s often used in sewing the rows of braids together in braided rugs.

Oooh, that’s sneaky! :D Thanks!