Admit it - you've got a ton of yarn scraps, right? Here's a way to do some
serious stash-busting. Yoyos are just tiny crochet circles, and they only
use a little bit of yarn. When I measured, I found that my yoyos take less
than ten feet of yarn each. So use up your little bitty scrap balls! Once
you have a pile of yoyos made, I have a way to join them while minimizing
additional pesky ends to weave.
The method that I devised is based on
Priscilla Hewitt's flat braid joining. I love the flat braid for joining squares, but when it came to joining yoyos with a separate strand of yarn for every yoyo, I drew the line. I wanted the same look without all the ends. My method lets you join a row of however many yoyos you want with a single strand of yarn. My giant afghan pictured below (photo #3) had only 50 ends to weave for the yoyo joining, versus 1500 that it would have had with the original flat braid method!
