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Carol's avatar

This reminds me of a course I did years ago with Brandon Mably, where we began by sorting our stash into light and dark. Then we used a very simple fair isle type design, which I think was Kaffe Fassett’s Poppies, and just knit, using up short lengths of yarn and knotting new ones in as we ran out. I ended up with several swatches, and the point was to discover new colour combinations we wouldn’t otherwise have considered. Somewhere I still have those swatches!

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Jorunn Hernes 🇳🇴's avatar

Oh, I do love Kaffe Fassett! Such exuberant colour joy.

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Lori Beard's avatar

I have a mitered squares blanket I'm making from leftover fingering weight yarn. It's lap sized now, and I still have enough leftovers to make another one, however I feel this one is close to finished. I need to level out the squares (one side has more than the other) then add the triangles around the sawtooth edge, and call it finally finished.

I've been tinkering with it for over a decade.

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Jorunn Hernes 🇳🇴's avatar

Wow, a decade! I am so impressed, and I'm sure it's lovely. I had to google "mitered square blanket", that was a new word for me, and it looks intriguing! If you want to send me a photo of it in a DM when it's finished, I'll make a post about it!

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Lori Beard's avatar

*laughing* In a year or more, if I get around to finishing it, I will certainly try to remember to reach out and let you know.

It's a slow project. The blanket is currently abandoned because of the want of a new sweater, which bumped the in-progress summer top for me and a pair of fingerless mitts for a friend into a pause while I crank out this sweater in a month (so I can wear it while I travel). When I get back I'll finish the summer top (it's really close to complete) and then the fingerless mitts, and then maybe I'll put a few more squares on the blanket. Maybe.

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Jorunn Hernes 🇳🇴's avatar

Maybe. We'll see what happens. That's the way it is, and that's the beauty of these projects.

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Louise Tilbrook ✨'s avatar

Thanks so much for the kind mention - I really appreciate it

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Keturah's avatar

Yours looks so beautiful!! Such a lovely blend of bright winter colors :D I don't really have any stash scraps, but would love to try this in the future. Having a mindless project to just knit on really sounds lovely. Have to think on this....

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Jorunn Hernes 🇳🇴's avatar

Wait, what? You don't have any leftover yarn? No balls of yarn that you've started on, that you keep "just in case"? How is that even possible?

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Keturah's avatar

No, I really don't! It's wild, I know haha!

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Jorunn Hernes 🇳🇴's avatar

That tells me you're extremely good at estimating how much yarn to buy, I am so impressed!

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Riin Gill's avatar

I’m actually in the process of unraveling a thrift store sweater to repurpose the yarn, probably for weaving. It’s a light fingering lambswool/cotton/polyamide/cashmere blend, primarily light gray, but there are tweedy flecks of white and black, and there’s some light blue in there too. It’s very soft and pretty. My boyfriend was like, couldn’t you just buy yarn, and it took me a while, but I finally got him to understand that yes, I could buy yarn, but I couldn’t buy this quantity of this yarn for $8, and as for the time I’m spending unraveling and winding, I love doing this!

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Jorunn Hernes 🇳🇴's avatar

Ah yes. We don't do the unraveling primarily to save money (although I do appreciate the fact that you can't easily buy that amount of new yarn in that quality). It's all about the process. My husband can't understand why I am fine with unraveling large parts of a project without grumbling, because I discover a mistake further down, but I just shrug and explain that I actually enjoy all parts of the process, enjoy getting it just right.

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Ruth Darelius's avatar

Not currently - I have one that took me about four years to complete. It is a mitered square that used fingering weight yarn and size 2/2.75m needles and that I made very large. I have some yarn that I have been stashing to make another blanket. Actually I have another one that is garter stitch that I made several years ago that had a master plan and used coordinating yarns of many types that is mostly worsted weight yarns or yarns held together to make worsted weight.

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Jorunn Hernes 🇳🇴's avatar

Another mention of mitered square project! Intriguing. Why have I never come across that before? I love writing these posts. I learn so many new things.

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Kavitha's avatar

How delightful! I’ve never considered a garter stitch something for leftovers. Your project looks lovely.

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Jorunn Hernes 🇳🇴's avatar

Thank you! It is intriguing how simple garter stitch can be so decorative, and with just random colours form the leftover yarn stash!

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