wrote:
We had a very good thread on storing needles.

So how do people deal with those little balls of yarn left over from a
project? How do you store them? They do not fit in a file folder!

Do you keep the gauge trial with the left over yarn? But, some of my
gauge trials are stitch samplers that I want to keep with my
patterns, and not with my yarns. I guess that means a cross index
system, i.e., a note attached to the yarn that the guage trial is
stitch sampler such and such.

When do you just throw the leftover yarn balls to the cats to play
with?

Do you sort by yarn thickness or by color?

I keep projects in progress in clear plastic shoe boxes for small
projects or clear plastic sweater boxes for larger projects. Each
project box has all the yarn for that project, the guage trials, the
needles, and instructions/pattern/calculations/charts for that
project. At the end of the project, I put the needles away, file the
pattern, and . . . . What do I do with a 1.4 oz ball of bulky yarn.

What do you do with your bits of left over yarn? Is this where the
squares exchange comes in?

For now, I'm going to put them into recycled zip-lok plastic bags.
The cross index idea sounds altogether too much like work.

Should RCTY work together to get into the Guiness Book of Records by
createing the world's largest ball of yarn, one left over bit at time?

LOL
You have some good ideas there, Aaron. And, yes, the leftover bits are
usually great for 6x6 squares.

Katherine