Help needed - granny square blanket

you could try something like this with needle and thread

http://woolnhook.blogspot.com/2011/08/invisible-seam-reverse-mattress-stitch.html

I'd sew squares together to get rows. Then sew rows together


Or try this using your crochet hook

http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/joining-granny-sqaures.html

I kinda like the look of this last links method. I hate having to try and thread yarn through a needle. I even have the huge size ones made for yarn, I still hate it so I like that this one doesn't use a needle and thread. Also it looks like it would work up quickly.

I'm about to do the same as you Julie, I have a granny square blanket that will need stitched together very soon. I have intended on doing the join as you go method but I felt it looked messy. I think I'll end up crocheting them together with slip stitch or single crochet.

I've used the attic24 tute for crocheting together the squares on a cushion and this leaves a ridge (fine on the cushion as it's on the inside)
I have small one colour squares and I want them to have a black border.
As I said - just trying to eliminate all those ends!

How did you get on with the sewing-up Julie? Can we have a pic (or link to the project) when its finished?

Oops! Got distracted by some half price wool and made some scarves and fingerless mitts for xmas pressies!
(not that I let myself avoid doing something difficult by doing an easy task instead!)

Gotta love discounted wool! Bargin!

Finally made a start (sorry about the pictures - I only have a really old phone camera {seriously I got laughed at in the phone shop the other day!)
Here's the cushion cover I made using the Attic 24 joining method
[http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/joining-granny-sqaures.html]
Front: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64822211@N07/7921730222/" title="DSC00397 by joolyg, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8040/7921730222_8dd1a6687f.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSC00397"></a>
Back: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64822211@N07/7921729580/" title="DSC00398 by joolyg, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8437/7921729580_29a94f67a4.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSC00398"></a>
And the newest blanket 'joining as I go'
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64822211@N07/7921728738/" title="DSC00399 by joolyg, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8308/7921728738_01b552d4ea.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSC00399"></a>
Here's the link to the tute I used :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90733686@N00/3470248273/in/set-72157617721257414/

I do like the 'tightness' of the Attic24 method on the cushion, but joining as you go is working for me on this blanket.

I'm gonna start joining mine soon, I think I'm gonna use the attic 24 method.

The more I do of this blanket the more I like it!
As I've done a pile (not nearly enough!) of the coloured centres and am adding the black border as I go it's really coming together easily. I can just grab a centre and border it and join it.

Also trying to weave in the ends in small batches as I go so I don't have that nightmare at the end!

I'd either uses a large yarn needle and whip stitch them together or I'd actually use a single crochet stitch or a slip stitch to join them together (at the back)