There must have been a sale on Caron one pound skeins. That’s the only reason I can think of as to why I have four of these pound behemoths, in light blue, in my house. I have been thinking of the project where I could use black and a color and all the odd balls that I have. Why not put the light blue to good use? As part of my “inheritance,” a friend’s family gave me a couple of large bags of yarn and craft supplies. There were full skeins but also lots of small balls of yarn that added to the stash that I already have. I think this would be an interesting at home project, at least to try to get things together to make something since we are sheltering in place. It takes a while to find everything up. The light blue could be interesting. I was thinking of cream or a tan, but why not use what I have on hand – lots of light blue.
It will be either a failure or a great artistic work. Light blue isn’t necessarily the neutral that I was thinking of when I first envisioned this project but this will be interesting and colorful. What I need to figure out is how long the stretches of light blue will be, the odd balls all vary in length and I will try to use mainly worsted weight yarn for this project. I’m going to have to crochet a row of in the stitch I want to use, then measure it and cut some lengths of that.
I’m liking this plan. I did like this plan…
After more thought, I have some longer lengths of yarn and enough to make more than one scrapghan – or planned colorful afghans, as some of the yarn that I’m using isn’t scraps. Instead of using the same amount of yarn for the solid color, I might make a large granny square afghan in varying shades of blue with the light blue being the main color and another with rows of a coordinating color with black as the main color. For the black with rows of color, it may be the same color in two rows or it might be a different yet complementary color.
When I first had this idea the sky was sunny and bright and I took that as a sign to work it out, but as I sketched things out and started with a few rows to get the idea some shape in my head, I think the two afghans will definitely use up more yarn. I have enough blue that it could be an afghan by itself, but I wanted to give it a little more pizzazz.
I made the plan, then I didn’t like that plan. As I was working on an afghan already in progress, I decided to just take small amounts of yarn from my oddballs bowl starting with the smallest amount first making a round, then working a couple of rows of the light blue, then as many complete rounds of the next color, three rows of light blue and so on. The yarn was tempting me, because the bowl is near where I sit and crochet in the living room. I found a few colors to use and plan to use this method until I run out of coordinating colors (that’s a loose interpretation). Then I will finish it off with a few rows of navy. Some balls of the yarn are too small, maybe only a yard or so, but I am not going to throw those away. I joined a couple of the leftover bits of yarn that I used together in a ball. As I looked through the remainder bowl, I found some other small bits that I will add to this mystery ball of yarn. The result of this will be a colorful mystery ball. Adding lots of colors to this mystery ball will take time to some match up. The colors that that I’m selecting for the scrapghan in progress coordinate with the light blue main color. the small odds and ends are ones that I can’t bare to part with, due to my “frugal” nature. I can just keep adding to the mystery ball until I have enough for an afghan, which might take a while.
A few days ago I was on a Zoom meeting and since other people were showing their dogs and cats, I showed off the project I was working on. Someone asked me if I had enough yarn to keep me occupied. I laughed and said, “yes, and I already have a few projects planned.” The afghans are only the tip of the iceberg, I have yarn ready to make a couple of hats which likely will be finished by the end of the week or at least one set and more progress made on the other things I’m working on.
Crocheting keeps me calm and now that I’m sheltering in place like many people in other parts of the world, I’m just doing more of it.
Happy crocheting!
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