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.
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!!!!!🥳
Love this video and this idea! Im excited to get going on using up “leftovers” I never thought to use two strands of yarn together to make a heavier weight. Thanks!
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!
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 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! 💖
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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! ❤️
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:)
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.
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.
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. 🎄
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.
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.
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 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. 🤗
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!
Perhaps some Estonian knitting designs would fit well with this concept (although the mini skeins are typically used as accents in a bigger project). Aleks Byrd has great designs, and she was interviewed by the Fruity Knitting podcast if you're interested in her explanation of Estonian knitting. Particularly, I think her Davvi (fingerless mitts), Hilja (fingerless mitts), Nordik Cowl (cowl using 6 mini skeins for CC and 1 100g MC), and Seli Sweater or Cardigan (published in Laine Magazine but also sold separately) are all gorgeous and use at least some mini skeins or leftover amounts of yarn. I'm particularly excited to use my leftover yarn for trying out the roosimine technique! (For some reason when I try to post URLs for those patterns my comment gets blocked, so sorry for no links!)
Thank you so much for these suggestions. I think you're on to something with this concept for using up smaller bits with Estonian or roosimine techniques. ❤️
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
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! ❤️
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!
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.
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!
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
I love the idea that you’re using marled yarn ideas I am a big fan of indie dyeing marled wool. But when I’m using fingerling yarn to make socks I usually have to buy three balls of sock yarn and even then sometimes it’s not enough yarn so I go back and add a carrier yarn so that I can go up a needle size and not have loose fluffy socks. You mentioned two strands of fingerling yarn will make a worsted weight if you can use many different yarn weights by making a small sample I’m sorry but I am a sample freak and that’s what I usually use my leftover yarns on is making sample swatches. I keep a tiny basket next to my phone charger and every time I see a new pattern I have to swatch it I always attach a recipe card to my swatch with any notes on it the type of yarn the store that carries it if it’s an exclusive dye notations.
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.
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.
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!
I crochet, not knit. But, i have so much scrap yarn. I do a lot of scrap shawls and a few scrap beanies. Started my second scrap blanket a few days ago.
I barely know how to knit. I basically only remember how to do a long tail cast on lol I typically crochet and i find a lot of knitting projects very daunting because a lot of them use smaller yarn and small needles but I have never wanted to knit some mittens so badly in my life. My 2023 goal is to make your fire pit mitts cause I have tons of yarn I have no plans for and the pattern doesn’t scare me 😂
One or two decent sized scraps (50+ grams at least ) could be used to do a colour work detail on the yoke of an otherwise plain sweater. The first ever sweater I knitted was colourwork with scraps. I raided my mum’s stash and separated blues, greens and neutrals for the background and pinks, reds and white for the contrast. It was a great way to do my first garment, because I was scared to buy a sweater quantity of yarn when my tension was all over the place. Over the could knitting it my technique improved and the tension evened out. The results was a crazy al over disjointed colour scheme, I wear it all the time, mostly at home.
I gathered and divided my leftovers by yarn weight and am currently making a linen stitch something. I’ll knit until my yarn in a particular weight is gone. Maybe it’ll be a scarf, a shawl, or a throw. If there’s a mistake with the linen stitch and colored yarns it’s hard to notice. Besides I can use it to keep warm on chilly days in my house.
See, this is how it’s done! Just knit away and enjoy the process and the changing colors and texture. A great way to enjoy those little bits of pretty yarn. Thank you for watching Elaine. ❤️
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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
Or log cabin; just make each section the size of your scraps.
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!!
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!
Hi, thanks for these good ideas on how to use scraps 🙂
Love this video and this idea! Im excited to get going on using up “leftovers” I never thought to use two strands of yarn together to make a heavier weight. Thanks!
Thanks for putting together patterns to use up minis or leftovers!! I especially like the fringed patterns to cut down on the end weaving!!
Thank you for taking so much effort for selecting these fabulous patterns.
My pleasure Geeta!
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!
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'm just seeing this now. I'm so excited to try these stash busting patterns. Thank you 😊
Tayler this was so perfect! Thank you for taking the time to share with us. 🥰
My pleasure Deb. Thank you for watching! ❤️
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. ❤️
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! 💖
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.
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. ❤️❤️
Thanks for all the ideas!
My pleasure Dorothy! Thank you for watching. ❤️
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.
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!
The Juniper cowl from TL Yarn Crafts is great for crocheters as well.
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?
Love these ideas, especially for us new knitters!
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. ❤️
Thank you! I'm going to make the Shortest Day this advent!! I never steeked before, I'm excited to do something new!
I love your living room, it’s so cozy!
Thank you Dana! That’s actually my office and it’s my little cozy haven. ☺️
Such a nice list. Your videos are very informative.
Thank you for taking the time to make these presentations
I don’t knit but for some reason I found this facinating😂
Excellent, helpful selection, great idea gathering. Thanks 🙂
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!
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! ❤️
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. ❤️
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! ❤️
Word of the day "marl"
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! 😅😅❤️❤️
I love the cowl. Lovely.
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!
I loved your video. I have never marked my sock yarn together, but I will now!
Smart using the scale to show how much yarn is used /needed!
Another good service! Love these podcasts.
Thank you for watching Linda!
Great suggestions! Thank you!
Fun show - thanks!
All great suggestions. I've been making Turn-A-Square beanies. Many stripes; you could swap out master color stripes and use leftovers.
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.
Hello Taylor, I'm so glad I found you!
Hi Kim! Welcome! So glad you found me. ☺️
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!
I love the shawl and hot water bottle patterns
Thank you, thank you!
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.
Great patterns! I especially love the sprocket socks. Thank you
You are so welcome Dory! Thank you for watching!
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. 🎄
Could that leftover city be turned into a skirt??! 😍🙌🏼
#stashburn2023 thanks for the pattern ideas. So needed this
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! ❤️
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.
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 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. 🤗
Nice job!! I like your choices! ❤❤
Thank you Brenda!
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! ❤️
Thank you for sharing.
Perhaps some Estonian knitting designs would fit well with this concept (although the mini skeins are typically used as accents in a bigger project). Aleks Byrd has great designs, and she was interviewed by the Fruity Knitting podcast if you're interested in her explanation of Estonian knitting.
Particularly, I think her Davvi (fingerless mitts), Hilja (fingerless mitts), Nordik Cowl (cowl using 6 mini skeins for CC and 1 100g MC), and Seli Sweater or Cardigan (published in Laine Magazine but also sold separately) are all gorgeous and use at least some mini skeins or leftover amounts of yarn.
I'm particularly excited to use my leftover yarn for trying out the roosimine technique!
(For some reason when I try to post URLs for those patterns my comment gets blocked, so sorry for no links!)
Thank you so much for these suggestions. I think you're on to something with this concept for using up smaller bits with Estonian or roosimine techniques. ❤️
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!
Loved this episode. So many great ideas!
Thank you so much for watching Gary! ❤️
Oooh some great options here! I especially love the Leftover City cowl and the Shortest Day Shawl.
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! ❤️
Thank you for this one! I love all of it!
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 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!
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.
AWESOME ideas!
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! ❤️
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! ❤️❤️❤️
I love knitting phone, kindle, laptop or tablet cases.
Ooo yes! Great idea!
Thank you for this! I have so many ideas now 😁
I REALLY LOVE the fire pit mitts! Everyone is getting a pair this Christmas
That means a lot. Thank you so much Jenna!
Thank you, I really appreciate all your video and this is one just ❤️🧡💛💚💜anf usefull. Thanks
My pleasure Chantele!
I love the idea that you’re using marled yarn ideas I am a big fan of indie dyeing marled wool. But when I’m using fingerling yarn to make socks I usually have to buy three balls of sock yarn and even then sometimes it’s not enough yarn so I go back and add a carrier yarn so that I can go up a needle size and not have loose fluffy socks. You mentioned two strands of fingerling yarn will make a worsted weight if you can use many different yarn weights by making a small sample I’m sorry but I am a sample freak and that’s what I usually use my leftover yarns on is making sample swatches. I keep a tiny basket next to my phone charger and every time I see a new pattern I have to swatch it I always attach a recipe card to my swatch with any notes on it the type of yarn the store that carries it if it’s an exclusive dye notations.
Wonderful podcast!!
Thank you for watching Suzanne! ❤️
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 make socks, i can usually get 3 socks out of one skein. I keep the left overs in case i have to make that 3 rd sock.
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.
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!
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!❤️
The most recent issue of Spin Off has a nice mitten pattern for using scraps.
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! ❤️
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!
scrappy striber by Pia Trans so good.
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. ❤️❤️
Freakin brilliant! Thank you!
You are so welcome Andrea! Thank you for watching!
Hello! thanks for the interesting idea
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!!
I don't have minis and i don't have much scraps.... You made me want to buy minis 😝hello from Athens, Greece.
I crochet, not knit. But, i have so much scrap yarn. I do a lot of scrap shawls and a few scrap beanies. Started my second scrap blanket a few days ago.
I barely know how to knit. I basically only remember how to do a long tail cast on lol I typically crochet and i find a lot of knitting projects very daunting because a lot of them use smaller yarn and small needles but I have never wanted to knit some mittens so badly in my life. My 2023 goal is to make your fire pit mitts cause I have tons of yarn I have no plans for and the pattern doesn’t scare me 😂
This means a great deal to me. That is quite a compliment. I so hope you do cast on to them soon. And please let me know how you like them. ❤️❤️❤️
Have you looked at the Battenberg blanket. It is amazing for using those leftovers!!😊
One or two decent sized scraps (50+ grams at least ) could be used to do a colour work detail on the yoke of an otherwise plain sweater.
The first ever sweater I knitted was colourwork with scraps. I raided my mum’s stash and separated blues, greens and neutrals for the background and pinks, reds and white for the contrast. It was a great way to do my first garment, because I was scared to buy a sweater quantity of yarn when my tension was all over the place. Over the could knitting it my technique improved and the tension evened out. The results was a crazy al over disjointed colour scheme, I wear it all the time, mostly at home.
This is really great advice!
I gathered and divided my leftovers by yarn weight and am currently making a linen stitch something. I’ll knit until my yarn in a particular weight is gone. Maybe it’ll be a scarf, a shawl, or a throw. If there’s a mistake with the linen stitch and colored yarns it’s hard to notice. Besides I can use it to keep warm on chilly days in my house.
See, this is how it’s done! Just knit away and enjoy the process and the changing colors and texture. A great way to enjoy those little bits of pretty yarn. Thank you for watching Elaine. ❤️
I have used lots of different colors making bedrocks and leg warmers. And they don't have to match to be fabulous.
I had no idea yarn advent calendars were a thing!