Granny Square Trivet With T-Shirt Yarn

• Looking for a quick handmade touch to add to your holiday gift giving? This t-shirt yarn granny square trivet is perfect! Quick to make, useful and even easily re-purposed as a tiny crocheted wall hanging (that is my real plan for this one, if I can find the time to pull it off.) Depending on the content of the t-shirt yarn you use, and the thickness of the yarn, a little beauty like this one can also be a pot holder. Add a little loop at the corner and maybe it is a decorative crocheted pot holder? And trivets are great for protecting furniture, or using as a giant coaster to catch drips. Ah yes, you can also make a bunch and sew them together to make a granny square rug, or just make an extra large “trivet” to use as a granny square chair pad which looked great in my kitchen for years. Enough babble, let’s get crocheting, shall we?

You’ll Need:

• industrial t-shirt yarn in your favorite colors
• 10mm metal crochet hook (or hook size that works for your yarn weight)
• a traditional granny square pattern
• a very large yarn needle

How To:

Self explanatory, just do keep in mind that for an item that will lie flat you generally need to crochet as loosely as possible, as the stretch in the yarn makes things curl easily. Not every pattern works with t-shirt yarn, but the basic granny square does, so go for it!

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