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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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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 http://members.rogers.com/craftkitten |
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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 ... 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 -- hate spam not welcome |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 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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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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wrote in message ... 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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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 ... 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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