The guild’s recent challenge was to make something from your stash. Everyone participated using up left over tubes of cotton, mixed yarns, fine silk yarn, beads, and raw and spun fibre. One of our members, Pam, took the challenge to the highest limit. Below is her story of how she accomplished this.
“I had multiple bins of bits of mixed synthetic yarns accumulated over the years – balls that were just not small enough to justify pitching out without feeling guilty.
When the Guild came up with the Stash Busting Challenge, it was an opportunity to find a project that would use up my large collection of yarn ends from other finished projects.
I found this easy crochet basket that used scrap yarn by making balls of scrap yarn tied together then using 5 strands together ie 5 balls of yarn at a time using a size 9 crochet hook.
The yarn didn’t even have to be the same thickness when making up the balls. Initially I tried to make balls made up of the same color ie all shades of blue or red etc. After a bit I just started working with the next color out of the bin.
The bags are worked from the bottom using a magic loop of 6 stitches.
Not only do you use up a lot of scrap yarn, you have a beautiful bag to show off!”
The website is mypoppet.com.au/makes-crochet-baskets-scrap-yarn-project/
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