First, a confession. I won these lovely stitch markers made with little painted cats on a blog give away! I was stoked, because I think stitch markers are so so fun to collect! But... (and here's the confession part) I totally can NOT remember who sent these to me! ACK! I haven't sent this nice lady a thank you note, because for the life of me I can not remember from which of the sites I follow that I won these on! So please, if this was you, forgive me! My brain is being bombarding by school!! Please let me know so I can thank you!
Aren't they cute??Last weekend while I was mulling over my very lack-luster knitting as of late, I decided to unravel one of the sweaters in my frog pool.
Unless you don't get this impression from the photo: this is a LOT of yarn. I was kinda disappointed too because I thought it was going to be closer to a sport or worsted weight, and instead I'm guessing it's closer to lace or light fingering. Ever since that scarf I knit mom I've kinda given up on really little yarn. I love how it looks knit up! Don't get me wrong! But it takes forEVER to knit up! LOL
I got to thinking... do you think someone would pay for this much yarn? Someone who likes knitting socks maybe? Or someone who has a drop spindle and would like to twist two or three together to make a thicker yarn? I'm not entirely sure, but it's gotta be close to 2000 yards... 100% cotton. And if I was going to sell it, what does a person charge for recycled cotton? I thought I would seek our your opinions because you're always so helpful. :)
Then, my last random thought. I was going through my stash the other day looking at what I had and searching for inspiration to cast on a new project, and came across these:
I'm beginning to accumulate bits and ends of yarns that I've knit with. What in the heck do you do with these?? It's too much to throw out, but not enough to knit anything I can think of. Do you guys store them seperate for doing colour work maybe? I'm going to have a million of these things if I just keep 'em!
School update: today marks my 1 week anniversary of starting classes at Hollins. I am wore out, plain and simple. Right now homework is sucking my energy like a vampire. Ugh. Is this related to my lack of knitting mojo? Discuss.
I have seen patterns on Ravelry before for using scrap yarns. I have seen dishcloths and blankets. I just went to the "pattern" section and typed in scraps and a lot of things came up. One pattern for an afghan even says that it will have directions in splicing the yarn together in order to roll it into one big ball for ease of use. There is also a rug, scarf, wrap, etc. I was also looking in a knitting magazine today, and there was a huge wrap/sweater that a designer had made with scraps. He picked the colors at random, unless it started to look to concentrated and then he/she would adjust the colors picked. It was striped, and so cool looking!
ReplyDeleteWhat is a frog pool? Is it a collection of things that you have to unravel? Did you buy them, or are they just old clothes that you have?
ooo! Patterns for scraps! Seriously, I never thought to look! I'll check it out. :) Do you think you'd divide your scraps by fiber content? Like have cotton scraps... acrylic/wool scraps... or do you divide by weight? hmmm. Interesting idea!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, the "frog pond" is where I store the sweaters I've bought to be frogged (unraveled). :)
I have a garbage bag filled with worsted weight yarn scraps, just waiting to be knit. Hold onto the scraps- as soon as you rid yourself of them a project will come up that needs exactly what you just purged.
ReplyDeleteSomeone would definitely pay for the fingering weight cotton yarn. There are plenty of groups on Ravlery that specialize in destashing yarn. It's really pretty stuff- I'm sure you wont have a problems finding a home for it!
log cabin blanket?
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I have no idea where the earrings came from but they sure are cute. I think plenty of people would pay for the frogged yarn. I have a long cotton sweater I was going to take to goodwill. Now I'm thinking I may frog it instead! I'm starting to itch to make a dark-colored granny square blanket. If we ever get the chance to stitch over coffee again, that's probably what I'll be working on. :)
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