10 KNITTING PATTERNS TO USE UP YOUR MINI SKEINS!
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Back to Basics Mittens
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Shortest Day Shawl
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Excavation
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Granny Advent Blanket
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Sprocket Socks
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Classic Cuffed Hat
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Anesidora Shawl
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Leftover City Cowl
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Water Bottle Cover
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Hot Water Bottle Cover
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A continous granny square blanket is my favourite project for using up yarn.
I feel like I’m the same. It just seems to make perfect sense. You just keep adding to it as you acquire new remnants. A symbiotic relationship. ☺️❤️
I have deliberately saved bits and pieces in a basketball sized ball to do this
Blankets is all I seem to be doing
Love these project ideas. It feels so good to get rid of scraps.
BTW, knitting hot water bottle covers and gifting it with a hot water bottle makes a great gift. It is so comforting to use when having menstrual cramps, for cold feet in bed, etc.
I totally agree. I think that’s such a sweet gift and very useful!
AND your fireplace mitts are a lovely blank slate for embroidering on using other "scrap" yarns :)
I was just thinking that too!!
Thank you for the great ideas Taylor! As always, great chat. I always appreciate the content you share with us. Keep warm, keep safe and keep knitting and yarning! 💖
Thanks for putting together patterns to use up minis or leftovers!! I especially like the fringed patterns to cut down on the end weaving!!
Tayler this was so perfect! Thank you for taking the time to share with us. 🥰
My pleasure Deb. Thank you for watching! ❤️
I'm just seeing this now. I'm so excited to try these stash busting patterns. Thank you 😊
Thanks for all your efforts coming up with these great ideas!❤
For the Anesidora shawl she gives four yarn options with weights (grams needed per skein)!😍 1) scrappy 2) semi scrappy 3) two colors 4) combo (sample shown) 12-24 mini’s. The pattern is beautifully written for each option. Yay for no weaving in ends!!!!!🥳
I love love love her patterns. She has a great scrappy blanket in her salt and timber book too.
Thank you! I love these ideas because they are simple! Nothing too complicated. ❤
My pleasure Sara! Thank you for watching!
I love the Left Over City Cowl. I used it to teach myself colourwork knitting and loved it so much I knit 2 back to back and still plan on doing more. It's the perfect size for cold mornings walking the dog and keeps my neck nice and warm. Great stash buster.
Thank you for taking so much effort for selecting these fabulous patterns.
My pleasure Geeta!
Hi, Tayler! Your topics are just the best! Very practical, but you keep them fun. And the visuals! It's so nice that we can see what you are talking about and don't have to look up something just to see it. Just a big high five. Can't say enough good things about your channel. I look forward to every new video!
Gosh Rachel, this really makes my day. I'm so glad that you're enjoying the channel and finding the topics useful and fun. Truly, thank you. ❤️
I look forward to your podcast so much. Love all the content and ideas you give. Thank you!
My pleasure Adella! Thank you for watching! ❤️
Such a nice list. Your videos are very informative.
Thank you for taking the time to make these presentations
Excellent, helpful selection, great idea gathering. Thanks 🙂
Thank you for this one! I love all of it!
Fantastic ideas! I have so many of these small skeins/leftovers to use up & this is super helpful.
I’m so glad. Thank you for watching Terri!
Love these ideas, especially for us new knitters!
Oooh some great options here! I especially love the Leftover City cowl and the Shortest Day Shawl.
Another good service! Love these podcasts.
Thank you for watching Linda!
I loved your video. I have never marked my sock yarn together, but I will now!
Absolutely fabulous ideas! Thanks so much.
My pleasure! Thank you for watching!
I love all these ideas!! I watched this while using minis to make my socks for Christmas. I picked a larger partial skein as my MC and I'll be using different minis for the stripes. 😊 And I'll be adding some fun color to the fire pit mitts I'm making for my kids with any leftovers!
Yay!! So glad this is providing some additional inspo! Happy knitting and Merry Christmas Kelly! ❤️
This was really helpful because as I watched I realized I have one of my advents that had a lot of pinks in it, sand I could make a cowl for my friend whoo loves the color! ❤️
Hello from a cold and frosty Northern Ireland. Thank you Tayler for this video. The sprocket socks are a must for me. I have also just purchased your fire pit mitts pattern. I know my grandchildren will love them.
Hello Ethel! Thank you so much for watching and for purchasing my pattern. I hope the mitts and the sprocket socks bring lots of cozy knitting. How pretty it must be in your neck of the woods these days! Stay warm and Merry Christmas. 🎄
Loved this episode. So many great ideas!
Thank you so much for watching Gary! ❤️
Hello Taylor. I’m so new to knitting but was inspired by KnittyNatty. I just needed more yarn/knit chat and found you last night. I think I watched 4 vlogs in one sitting while working on my very first knit project-a washcloth with a needle definitely 4 sizes too big haha.
I jumped on Ravelry after a couple of your ideas videos and now I have so many great easy project patterns that look doable for my rookie status. I quickly became a huge fan of yours and will continue on and look forward to new videos. You’re turning this crochet girl into a bonafide knitting fanatic.
This means so much Shari (is that correct?)! Thank you. I’m happy to have you here. ❤️❤️
Such great ideas! I LOVE the Firepit Mitts, Shortest Day Shawl, Granny Advent Blanket and Leftover City Cowl. Those were all added to my list. Thanks so much ... also, I came here to check you out because Leslie from Knotty Knitwits has so many good things to say about your videos!
Thank you so much for watching and I just love Leslie. Both of them are the sweetest. Their podcast is one of my favorites. ❤️
Great patterns! I especially love the sprocket socks. Thank you
You are so welcome Dory! Thank you for watching!
I love your fire pit mitts. Don’t stop talking about them! I have made three pairs in the last couple weeks! Now I might try them with my leftovers
Thank you so much Laurie! That means a lot to me. ❤️
couple other ideas are laptop “sweaters” (super similar design to hot water bottle cover) and book covers to protect those paperbacks when you throw them in your bag!
Yes!!!! Great suggestion!
Great ideas! Thank you so much for putting these together. This year I am using my advent as the stripes in a Stria Cardigan. It's the first time knitting a cardigan on such small needles, so I will be here forever! My other stash buster is the Bits and Bobs which is in Fisherman's Rib so it's knit and knit below so it's pretty fast and you can use sock held together and Dk on the same project.
I just bought your Fire Pit Mitts! Thank you for all the “mini skeins” pattern options. Another great episode! 😊
Thank you so much for watching and for purchasing the mitts! Happy knitting on them!❤️
Thank you for this! I have so many ideas now 😁
Great video, great ideas for scraps. I have a big bag of leftover sock yarn in which I'm working on a blanket. I also thought about using some for a scrappy sweater.
My favorite is the Granny blanket! Great ideas to use up yarns!
I think that one is my favorite too, for Advent yarn especially. Soo cute! Thank you for watching Linda!
Another great episode. I have referred to your quick knits one and will definitely come back to this one! Thank you. 😊
Thank you so much Kay!
Thanks for all the ideas!
My pleasure Dorothy! Thank you for watching. ❤️
I love your living room, it’s so cozy!
Thank you Dana! That’s actually my office and it’s my little cozy haven. ☺️
Great episode Tayler, as usual ! I love to use my ton of scraps to make the Granny Shawl by Charlene Van den Brande (available on Ravelry). Three good reasons for that : it's free - no ends to weave in, just fringes - you start at the top and you decrease on every row, which is my favorite method for a shawl.
Thank you for sharing these things with us. Sometimes you can't figure out what to do with the little bits of yarn you have. I do have a basket where all my left over yarn is and I've been working on a knit blanket for several years using the left over yarn. I love the Excavation pattern and I think I might try that. Thank you again, for inspiring all of us.
You’re very welcome. Thank you for watching! ❤️
I was just gifted a large bag of partial sock yarn skeins and your fire side mitts were exactly what I was looking for to use some of it up. Can’t wait to get started!
This makes my day Rose! I’m so glad you’ll be playing with color while you knit a pair. Enjoy and thank you! ❤️
Thank you! I'm going to make the Shortest Day this advent!! I never steeked before, I'm excited to do something new!
Thank you for all of these ideas. I can highly recommend the Sprocket Socks. I found that pattern on Ravelry at the start of December and have used some of my advent minis to make them. They look so effective and I’ll definitely use this pattern again and again as there are so many different effects you could create with it.
My pleasure Diane! And it’s good to know that you vouch for this pattern because I’m very tempted to cast on! ❤️
BRILLIANT video - thank you for sharing these. you just saved me so much freaking time, perusing Ravelry. I favorited like 4 of these designs. thank you thank you thank you. xoxoxo
My pleasure Lorelei! I’m so glad this helped! ❤️❤️❤️
All great suggestions. I've been making Turn-A-Square beanies. Many stripes; you could swap out master color stripes and use leftovers.
My favorite way to use up my scraps of yarn is to make a 10 stitch blanket. I've made several for my family including one for my cat.
I love the cowl. Lovely.
I have that basket full of scrap yarn so I am very appreciative of suggestions like this. I wonder, too, if the smaller scraps could be used to make up small toys, Christmas tree decorations, maybe other small items yet to be suggested. I must explore this. Thanks for your inspiration. 🤗
AWESOME ideas!
Great ideas, Tayler! Thank you. ⛄️🤶🏻🎄Just purchased your Fireplace Mitts pattern and the neighborhood Hat. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you for purchasing the patterns Catherine! Merry Christmas to you!!
Thanks for all the great ideas. Girl, you talk faaasssst!
My pleasure Susan! And I know! This video was a whirlwind! I wanted to get it all in! 😅😅❤️❤️
The Juniper cowl from TL Yarn Crafts is great for crocheters as well.
Nice job!! I like your choices! ❤❤
Thank you Brenda!
Great suggestions! Thank you!
Great suggestions. I love the “Exotic Burst Cowl” on Ravelry, even if it does use a skein of neutral color yarn, too. Great Xmas gift.
I REALLY LOVE the fire pit mitts! Everyone is getting a pair this Christmas
That means a lot. Thank you so much Jenna!
I’m super new to crotchet, and for now plan on using the bits I have left over to make a stitch sampler blanket. Practical on multiple levels.
I love the shawl and hot water bottle patterns
Ooh, great ideas here! I have more worsted weight than fingering/sock yarn scraps. Baby knits use smaller amounts of yarn and can still help bust stash. I have been wanting to make a pom-pom wreath for a long time out of some inherited yarn that I would normally not buy, but can still be useful.
Ooo a pom pom wreath would be soo much fun to make!
Great ideas, but way too much repetition. How many times can you say mini skeins? multi color?
So I jumped onto Amazon to buy a hot water bottle to knit a cover for....and most of them come with knitted covers! That gave me a chuckle!
Love this and can’t wait to check out your bundle. Best take away was to Find a basic pattern with stockinette or garter and run with it. I like the non-end weaving ones a lot
I’m so glad this was helpful Suzanne! Thank you so much for watching!
Fun show - thanks!
I finished two colour matching blankets this year and I'm going to use the leftovers to make a basket to put them in! It's the scrap yarn basket pattern, which is great for me cause I can hold two chunky yarns together to make it.
This is such a great use of the scraps and very functional, which I love! ❤️❤️
For fingerless mitts, I really enjoy using tweed yarn. The texture!! I made a pair of elbow length with tweed.
Wonderful podcast!!
Thank you for watching Suzanne! ❤️
These are great! I may be the oddball here, but I enjoy weaving in ends. I find it rather meditative and soothing. I also like disentangling knots. Lol
I’m looking forward to making the firepit mitts soon. I have some leftover fisherman’s wool in a few colors. I may use those.
You’re not an oddball! I’ve met several folks now who say the same thing and I can totally get it.
Also, thank you so much for downloading the Fire Pit Mitts. I hope you enjoy them! ❤️
Thank you, I really appreciate all your video and this is one just ❤️🧡💛💚💜anf usefull. Thanks
My pleasure Chantele!
I'm making the Melting Marl Shawl right now using up advent + scrap yarn. I just created my own fade and am going to town with random amounts of rows where I'm marling the colors. It's so fun!
That sounds beautiful Lindsey!
Thank you for sharing great ideas 🌸💕🐟
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching!
Brilliant ideas, Tayler! Late summer of this year is when I became a little comfortable with my knitting. I've been knitting (then frogging) a lot of raglan pullovers. I don't feel bad though. I would like to think that I've been practicing my knitting skill. Haha... Time to get a journal and start making plans for next year (which is just around the corner). 🙂 Thank you for sharing! Have a wonderful evening.
My pleasure Liz! Thank you for watching and have a lovely weekend! ❤️
That was a fun and helpful video and very generous of you to create and share. Very new to this, my total creations to date are 9 pairs of socks and I had no idea what to do with the leftovers, 10 th pair is for me and it’s sprocket socks
I'm so glad you enjoyed it Norah. Thank you for watching!
Hello Taylor, I'm so glad I found you!
Hi Kim! Welcome! So glad you found me. ☺️
Just knitted the FPMs for my mother-in-law for her Xmas present from me and my wife. They are a great pattern, and don't apologize for promoting them! They turned out beautifully. I'm sure she'll be thrilled:)
Thank you so much Paul. That means a lot. I’m so glad they came out nicely! Merry Christmas!
Before you even said it I was thinking about your Fire Pit Mitts! I just finished my first pair for my daughter and I can’t wait to make more!
Oh I’m so glad! Thank you Amy! I’ve seen lots of folks playing with color with the mitts so I felt them an appropriate option. ❤️❤️
I like to make a magic knot ball and hold double with a neutral to make Stephen West's Garter Squish Throw. I've made several with both fingering and worsted weight scraps and they're always a hit.
I think several of Stephen West’s “painting” and “honeycomb” patterns could work well for stash-busting. On Ravelry he has Painting Bricks shawl, socks, mittens, hat, sweater, blanket; Painting Honeycomb shawl, blanket, sweater, jacket; Painting Waves shawl; and more. Search for “Stephen West” and “painting” to find all of these.
Your podcast is so good, Tayler! I like so many things about it but one of the best parts is that you have good taste. If you like a pattern or a color… I’m going to like it too. I trust you 100 % ! Everything you show is gold. ❤
Thank you so much Star! This means a great deal to me. More than you know. ❤️
Once again, a super useful video! And it helps that you have such good taste, so I don't have to cringe at your recommendations.
Thank you Kari!! ❤️
I really enjoyed this. I’m going to head of]ver to your page to check out the rest. I’m hoping to find more for thicker yarns. I have a lot of worsted and bulky weight yarns. Maybe I will knit or crochet a throw.
Freakin brilliant! Thank you!
You are so welcome Andrea! Thank you for watching!
Great video! Last year I made the shortest day shawl, I used the 2021 sound of music advent by skeincocaine and oh how I love it. This year I already finished one advent project, the Brightside Sweater (it’s not a striped pattern but I did 10 rows of each color) with the HedgeHog Fibre 2022 advent and now I’m making JessieMaed’s Hello From my Colors Crop with Hello Stella’s 2022 Marie Antoinette advent, I’m a big fan of stripes so I love making projects with minis
Nice seeing a Magnolia Bloom ‘in the wild’. I’m knitting one in red and am trying to finish it before christmas. I’m just about to split for sleeves, so I better hurry up 😂
I LOVE this sweater Lene! You’re in for a treat. 🎄❤️
Some great ideas here! Thank you! :-)
My pleasure Heather! Thank you for watching. ❤️
another phenomenal podcast!! you pack in so much info and fun ;) an especially useful video since I just bought my husband a hot water bottle as a 'gag' gift for christmas - he's always complaining that I don't warm up his side of the bed for him - and need to knit up a cover -- yay!! 🐑 warm wishes for the holidays 🎄
Oh Ursula this is such a nice compliment. Thank you! And what a sweet gift for your husband, even if it is a gag gift. I mean it’s extra romantic if it has its own sweater. 😉❤️
Have you looked at the Battenberg blanket. It is amazing for using those leftovers!!😊
Thank you for sharing.
Smart using the scale to show how much yarn is used /needed!
For me, it’s Selbu mittens. Super pretty, takes not a lot of yarn. Generally though? I let my scraps and minis back up a while before I set them up in pairs/trios and make something with a bunch of simple color work stripes. Usually a cowl or something else simple that I don’t need to worry about floats on.
Wonderful compilation of some very wearable projects that doesn't sell yarn for someone!! Perfect for those last minute gifts! Thanks. Well done 💕👏🏼
My pleasure Rita! Thank you for watching. ❤️
wonderful vlog, so happy to find a knitter. new subby
Thank you so much! Welcome to the channel!
The most recent issue of Spin Off has a nice mitten pattern for using scraps.
I don’t knit but for some reason I found this facinating😂
Thank you, thank you!
Hello! thanks for the interesting idea
What yarn did you use for this lovely green sweater you are wearing? I probably saw your podcast on it as I have seen most but do not recall. It looks so beautiful on you. Thank you Tayler for all these fantastic moments in the knitting world. I wait for your Sunday and Wednesday broadcasts as they are my treat in the mist of a busy, hectic day.
I don't have minis and i don't have much scraps.... You made me want to buy minis 😝hello from Athens, Greece.
I don't have pattern suggestions, but I find I really like to use scraps with brioche stitch, striped in half fisherman's rib, or other textured stitches like slipped stitches. My personal taste, but I find that textured stitches can pull the colors into conversation with each other rather than blending like with a marl. To each their own! I love scrappy projects!