A detailed guide on how to store yarn with tons of ideas for your craftsroom and the bet ways to organize your knitting stash.
There are 37+ patterns to use up your yarn stash. Shop your own stash with so many small knitting projects to choose from!
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Who wants to use up some leftover YARN? I know I have been lately! Today I have a HUGE list of free stash-buster crochet patterns for you!
Knitting is time consuming, so every once and awhile we think knitters deserve the instant gratification of a one hank wonder. They're a great solution for a last minute gift or to get rid of extra yarn.
This stash busting method isn't for the faint of heart. If your stash is full of yarns you love and can't wait to use, then this may not be the project for you. But if you're anything like me, you've got some yarns that you don't even know how they got in there and aren't ...
Today I want to share 8 ingenious ideas on how to use up your yarn stash - so you can stop being stressed out by all your leftover yarn!
...mine has been growing very quickly and steadily since Christmas so I've had it find a new spot for it! More here: rosehip.typepad.com/rose_hip_blog/2010/05/growth-spurt.html
Make knitted items for the home with these easy free knitting patterns that include blankets, pumpkins, bunting and more!
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Finally tame your UFO pile and yarn stash with this free printable crochet planner! Click through to grab your free crochet binder printables today.
There are 37+ patterns to use up your yarn stash. Shop your own stash with so many small knitting projects to choose from!
There are 37+ patterns to use up your yarn stash. Shop your own stash with so many small knitting projects to choose from!
Learn how to reuse leftover scraps of yarn in all kinds of projects like gift-wrapping, pom-poms, and wearable accessories.
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Scrap yarn, leftover yarn, whatever you call it we all have it. Unless you are the most minimal and thrifty of knitters we all have a little (or not so little) stash of leftovers from other projects. The question is what on earth do you do with it? Yes of course there is the ubiquitous sock yarn b
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Have you got a million ball bands lying around? Would you like to organize your yarn stash? Have a look at how I keep track of my yarns.
Yarn stashes have a bad rap, eliciting images of squirrels, clutter and hoarding. Yet knitting blogger Mary Mooney offers a clever exploration into the depths of the stash while also writing a mini-manifesto for why a yarn stash is so essential, despite what our family and roommates whisper behind our back. For example, Mary describes the Destination Yarn, hanks and skeins that will later become a hat or scarf for someone else and is therefore essential. Then there's the Luxury Yarn, which sits in our stash like a decadent box of forbidden chocolates, the best cure for a bad day. She explores all the other essential yarns to our stash, clear enough for even the non-yarnie to understand why we must have our lovely, luscious stash. To learn more about what yarns you have hiding away, head to The Oregonian.
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Collection of 20 amazing free yarn stash buster patterns for leftover yarn, relaxing time to create beautiful creations quickly and easily.
Solve your stash woes with this roundup and blog hop of stash busting crochet and knitting projects!
As knitters, we have such a wonderful array of colorful yarn to work with. But color can be a complex subject, with a mind-boggling amount of theory and science behind it. When we’re combining yarns for a multi-color project, all those beautifully colorful yarns in our stash can suddenly become a bit scary. The fear
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I spend too much time on Ravelry. It is truly addictive. I was recently looking for some stash busters and was amazed at the variety of projects and ideas.I thought I would share a few of my finds with you. The first 2 are not Ravelry. I found this while Goggling (another addiction of mine) when looking for some craft ideas to do with my young nephews at the cottage this summer. Dream catchers Many children will be familiar with Dream catchers from their studies in First Nations Cultures which (if I remember correctly) is about grade 3 in York Region. The Ojibwa believe that a dream catcher changes a person's dreams. Only good dreams would be allowed to filter through… Bad dreams would stay in the net, disappearing with the light of day.Good dreams would pass through and slide down the feathers to the sleeper. For more information on Dream catchers, use the following wikeipedia link which also contains other helpful information links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcatcher Dream Catchers are great cottage projects for kids. The base can be made from a variety of easily accessible items - coat hangers, paper plates, margarine lids. Cover them with yarn, web the center and then decorate with found objects from the beach - feathers, shells, pine cones. The following link is a very kid appropriate set of directions for Dream catchers. http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2009/07/how-to-make-dreamcatcher.html God's eye A God's eye is a yarn weaving and a Huichol spiritual object. The Huichol or Wixáritari are a Native American ethnic group of western central Mexico, living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range. http://www.katcoyle.com/blog/2007/11/gods-eyes/ provides the following instructions Treasure Pouch A little fun something you can knit for kids with just a few meters of sock or DK yarn - a Treasure Pouch. If you are spending time at a beach, it is a perfect little pouch for special stones or shells. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/treasure-pouch Little Ditty Bag A nice little pouch you might enjoy for yourself is a Little Ditty Bag. Pattern at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/dots-little-ditty-bag A 50gm ball of cotton makes a bag the perfect size to be a project bag for socks You could use small left overs to create stripes. Knit with variegated cotton , you can get some funky colour pooling. Deep Sea Flower Dice Bag Knit with just a few meters of Kureyon or Silk garden Pattern at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/deep-sea-flower-dice-bag---anemone-de-mer Minnow Hat We took this little hat knit with left over sock yarn to the Frolic. It got more attention than anything else in our booth. It is a scaled down version of the Dead Fish Hat from Knitty (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/fish-hat-dead-or-alive and uses just a few meters of sock yarn. And what sock knitter doesn't have tons of left over bits of sock yarn. The pattern only offers one size, newborn. I am playing around with resizing to fit slightly older children.The one I knit used a mere 10 gms for the red sections and 20 gms for the body. A free pattern on Ravelry at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/minnow-hat Baby Surprise Jacket There are over 17,000 Baby Surprise Sweaters posted on Ravelry. It is the third most posted project. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-surprise-jacket Mitered Sock Yarn Blanket Free Pattern at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sock-yarn-blanket If you are unfamiliar with miters, don't fear this project. All those little squares/diamonds are joined as you go, not seamed together at the end. Gabriela is doing a class on the technique used to make this project this summer. Christine's Stay On Baby Booties These adorable booties use just a few meters of sock yarn. I recognize this yarn as one of my favourite colourways of Trekking, now unfortunately discontinued. FREE Pattern on ravelry at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/christines-stay-on-baby-booties Saartjes Bootees & Easy Peasy Newborn hat Saatjes bootees & Easy Peasy Newborn hat in Regia Kaffe Fassett Design Line colour Snappy 02900 http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/saartjes-bootees http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/easy-peasy-newborn-sock-hat Easy Peasy in Zauberball Crazy1701 A diagonal knit scarf/shawl using random bits of left overs. http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring08/FEATspr08FK.html Mini Mania Linen Stitch Scarf One of my favourite stitch patterns is linen stitch. I have used it dozens of times in various projects. One of its most popular uses is as a scarf with hand painted yarns. . The young lady below has knit a huge version using up a ton of different colours of sock yarn. I love it. It is on my list of must do projects. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mini-mania-scarf Squishy Love Shawl The shawl/wrap below appeals to me also. I love all Noro Yarns. I can't bear to throw away even the smallest scrap of Noro. The shawl below uses a unifying skein of solid yarn knit in random garter stitch and eyelet stripes with a selection of small amounts of various Noro left overs. I have all the left overs, just have to select a solid unifying colour. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/squishylove-shawl Knitter's Journey Afghan - This Becomes this Using Stephanie Pearl McPhee's pattern for the Knitters Journey Afghan Pattern Description from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: “This is one of my favorite projects and one that can reflect a knitter’s journey as well as any scrapbook or postcard collection. It was inspired by a quilt I had as a little girl made of the leftover scraps of fabric from the clothes my grandmother sewed. There was a square that was a piece of my mother’s favorite nightie, a square of an uncle’s flannel shirt, bits of a summer sundress and a soft bedsheet. Our lives and stories about what people did and where they went in the clothes made from those fabrics were laid out in bits and pieces and backed with pink cotton, and I loved it. This knitting project serves the same purpose: It uses the leftovers of projects gone by (or as they go by, my personal choice) to work a traveler’s afghan.” This pattern may be found on pages 206-209 of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off. This Becomes this Or this I hope you have found some inspiration to help use up your stash. If not I have one more option. At Serenity Knits we are happy to accept donations for 2 local schools with knitting clubs and a local church which knits charity afghans. If you have any yarn or knitting needles you would love to get rid of, drop them off and we will get them to the schools or church. Happy knitting Beth
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A super easy pattern! You will learn the basics of knitting a triangle with a lace border and get to use up all the remnant yarns in your stash! I used all the handspun yarns from my SPINDLING series in this shawl, and it's such a fun piece to wear! MATERIALS Size 35, 32 inch circular needles (piece will be knitted fl
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Wild Flower Honey Bulky Art Yarn. The inspiration of this homespun yarn was a giveaway in honor of Honey bees and Beekeepers. It reminded me of the Wild Flowers and H9ney Bees. Read more...
Make a super easy corner-to-corner baby blanket with this free pattern. Perfect for using up those colors you have left in your yarn stash.
Get the Sunsoaked Collection, a 10-colorway series of yarn developed by TL Yarn Crafts in collaboration with Sewrella Yarn.
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