This blanket can be made from your stash or it can be planned out in a spacific color sceme. There is no sewing, each mitered square is picked up and knit from the previous one. there are diagrams to help explain the instruction and a template to plan out color placement. In the colors I used, the lightest color and the next predominate color 3 skeins where used, and the other three colors I used 2 skeins.