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  #21  
Old January 17th 05, 02:30 AM
Wooly
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Well, at one time in the not-so-distant past I could, from one ball of
Opal, knit socks for me (4" legs, 9" to the tip of the toe) and a pair
for the kidlet. Now, I knit a pair for myself and the leftovers are
no longer adequate to the task of covering my son's feet. Funny how
that happens

I've got socks on the needles for him right now that will have plain
blue feet with some one of the jacquard Opal legs. I've considered
knitting myself a sweater from the leftovers - after I did the math
WRT the number of stitches on the body I decided that small boy would
be better served by such a sweater *lol*

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:56:44 -0600, "Shillelagh"
spewed forth :
Yow!!! My grandkids think sox made out of bits and pieces are the coolest
thing since sliced bread. So, I have a ready made market for odds and sods
sox. (grin)

Shelagh


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Old January 17th 05, 03:36 AM
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:07:55 GMT, 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?

Aaron

I just read this post and what I do my left-over yarn is do different
size granny squares with all my worsted weight yarn. These squares
end up in multi-colour lapghans and afghans that I give to the
hospital tuck shop.

My only problem with doing all the granny squares is that I have lots
of granny squares and haven't put them together yet. Maybe that shuld
be my next project.

Darlene in Toronto
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Old January 17th 05, 06:24 AM
Mirjam Bruck-Cohen
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Is this a Dutch thing ??? elsje ,, my mother was a sock knitter for my
children ,, and when the toes went they got all this variations of
collors .....
When i learned Weaving in PIA ,, we wove in our socks ,,,, and so i do
here in winter ,,, thus socks got some friection ,,when i repaired
them with same color , somebody adviced me to variate those colors
,,,, "thus every one will know you are a Veteran Weaver !!!!"
mirjam

In article , "Shillelagh"
wrote:

"Wooly" wrote in message
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I just went and weighed the leftover sock yarn. WITHOUT the bin I'm
looking at approximately 10# of oddballs, mostly partial balls of
Opal. I haven't gotten desperate enough to mix and match, but since
I'm on a (yarn, fiber) diet this year I may do if I manage to get
through the new stuff in the stash.


Yow!!! My grandkids think sox made out of bits and pieces are the coolest
thing since sliced bread. So, I have a ready made market for odds and sods
sox. (grin)

Shelagh


I save my little bits of sock wool te re-knit the toes of Otto's socks,
when I wears them into holyness....LOL. Any colour is fine. Otto does
not mind, he is very colour blind....LOL We do get lots of comments
though.....grey socks with bright variegated red toes.....left over from
socks for Skye.....LOL

Els

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Old January 17th 05, 10:27 AM
cher
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Hi Katherine,

Well I ain't bragging or anything .... but....I have an excellent Tote made
from squares from all members on here, this is a large tote, and holds such
a lot of my odd balls of yarn.
Thanks for posing the question

Cheers.....cher


"Katherine" wrote in message
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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




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Old January 17th 05, 04:06 PM
Ruth409028
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So how do people deal with those little balls of yarn left over from a

I have most of them in a plastic tub. So far I have made somewhere around 12
granny afghans with them. Also made 3 sampler afghans, using the leftovers to
embroider 63 squares in each one. I still have 1/2 a tub of leftovers.
Take Jacques out before replying.
  #26  
Old January 17th 05, 06:48 PM
Betty
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When my collection of left over yarn gets out of control I go on a hat
making binge and give the hats to the needy there are many outlets for that,
Caps for Kids, homeless shelters, church missions....

If I have just a little bit of yarn left just a few yards that roll up into
something smaller than an egg I put the ball in this large clear glass vase
all the colors and textures make it interesting to look at and it reminds me
of all the projects I've accomplished. And if I need to do an emergency
repair I might even have a little bit in my vase to fix the problem.

Betty



wrote in message
om...
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?

Aaron




  #27  
Old January 17th 05, 07:05 PM
Carey N.
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wrote in message
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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?

Aaron



I thought of this thread while I was in the kitchen, putting the cleaned
plastic Chinese food containers on top of the refrigerator. The small ones
would be about the right size for left-over yarn to be used as WY, and the
taller ones might hold the remainder of a cone(minus the cardboard cone
itself, though). Clear enough to see through, and closed to keep dust/pet
hair out.

Just my .02.
Carey in MA


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Old January 17th 05, 08:38 PM
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One reason for the previous post was that the other day I pulled the last
skein of a batch of very nice wool yarn that I had dyed last spring out of
the plastic tub were it had sat for 9 months, and found that it was terribly
moth eaten. It is not that bad, because I was just planning to make a hat to
match the sweater, but if it had been the last skein to finish the sweater,
I would have been real unhappy.

Another reason was: So I made a hat from some Lopi that I bought on eBay a
long time ago. I wore the hat for a day or two and then washed it. As
soon as it was wet, it smelled like a barn! Not a nice lamby smell, but a
real barn smell. By the time the barn smell was gone, the hat was properly
fuzzy and felted. And, it had changed color, from a tan & gray to a white
and gray. G I decided that odds and ends of yarn may not be all that
clean.

All of a sudden I am not so happy with my plastic tubs and bins.

Time for a cedar and lavender orgy. Time for yarn containers that really
seal.

One approach that I am working on involves putting all the yarn for a single
project into a clear plastic grabage bag with a sachet of cedar/lavender,
then sucking the air out with a vacume cleaner, and closing the bag tightly.
This reduces the volume somewhat and should keep bugs out. I know there are
commercial bags for this, but I am not sure that they are worth the price.

Aaron

wrote in message
om...
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?
snip



  #29  
Old January 17th 05, 08:51 PM
Carey N.
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wrote in message
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One reason for the previous post was that the other day I pulled the last
skein of a batch of very nice wool yarn that I had dyed last spring out of
the plastic tub were it had sat for 9 months, and found that it was

terribly
moth eaten. It is not that bad, because I was just planning to make a hat

to
match the sweater, but if it had been the last skein to finish the

sweater,
I would have been real unhappy.

Another reason was: So I made a hat from some Lopi that I bought on eBay a
long time ago. I wore the hat for a day or two and then washed it. As
soon as it was wet, it smelled like a barn! Not a nice lamby smell, but a
real barn smell. By the time the barn smell was gone, the hat was properly
fuzzy and felted. And, it had changed color, from a tan & gray to a white
and gray. G I decided that odds and ends of yarn may not be all that
clean.

All of a sudden I am not so happy with my plastic tubs and bins.

Time for a cedar and lavender orgy. Time for yarn containers that really
seal.

One approach that I am working on involves putting all the yarn for a

single
project into a clear plastic grabage bag with a sachet of cedar/lavender,
then sucking the air out with a vacume cleaner, and closing the bag

tightly.
This reduces the volume somewhat and should keep bugs out. I know there

are
commercial bags for this, but I am not sure that they are worth the price.

Aaron



Aaron:
I purchased the Pac-Vac-N-Stack storage system bags at Ocean State Job Lots
for $4.99, plus tax.
To quote the box, it contains" 1 large suction bag(36" x 22") and one jumbo
suction bag (52" X 36"), along with one pair of sealing rods for each bag.
Can't tell you how they work, though: they're still in the box.
HTH,
Carey in MA


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Old January 18th 05, 01:52 AM
Betty
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I purchased the space bags at Sears to help save space when moving my
daughter to college. Just don't over pack them or they will rip. They do
save space. But I wonder if things packed in them for a long time really do
fluff up nicely like on the commercial

Betty


wrote in message
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One reason for the previous post was that the other day I pulled the last
skein of a batch of very nice wool yarn that I had dyed last spring out of
the plastic tub were it had sat for 9 months, and found that it was

terribly
moth eaten. It is not that bad, because I was just planning to make a hat

to
match the sweater, but if it had been the last skein to finish the

sweater,
I would have been real unhappy.

Another reason was: So I made a hat from some Lopi that I bought on eBay a
long time ago. I wore the hat for a day or two and then washed it. As
soon as it was wet, it smelled like a barn! Not a nice lamby smell, but a
real barn smell. By the time the barn smell was gone, the hat was properly
fuzzy and felted. And, it had changed color, from a tan & gray to a white
and gray. G I decided that odds and ends of yarn may not be all that
clean.

All of a sudden I am not so happy with my plastic tubs and bins.

Time for a cedar and lavender orgy. Time for yarn containers that really
seal.

One approach that I am working on involves putting all the yarn for a

single
project into a clear plastic grabage bag with a sachet of cedar/lavender,
then sucking the air out with a vacume cleaner, and closing the bag

tightly.
This reduces the volume somewhat and should keep bugs out. I know there

are
commercial bags for this, but I am not sure that they are worth the price.

Aaron

wrote in message
om...
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?
snip





 




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