Dealing with left over yarn

Good idea, Cher, although I was not the original poster of the question.
However, I want to use my squares in an afghan - one that I will use often
and have on display when I am not using it.

Katherine

cher wrote:
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

Betty wrote:

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.

What a fun idea. I'd love to see your vase.

Dawn