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For me, one way of using up leftover yarn is to make oddball hats.<\/p>\nFor me, one way of using up leftover yarn is to make oddball hats.<\/p>\n
There is never the right amount of yarn for a project. When you buy something just as when you guy a carton of eggs and only need 3 for a recipe, you will have some left over. Depending on the style of the hats and scarf I make, there may be yarn left over. Knowing this, I purposely set aside the yarn that I have just to make some hats to donate to an organization. Some hats can be made with less than 150 yards of yarn while others are quite thirsty and require 200 yards or more. A good rule of thumb is to have about 200 yards of yarn to make a hat. A crochet swirl hat or a half double beanie (or toque) won\u2019t take as much as a hat with front\/back post ribbing or cables.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/hatoddballs2May22-150x150.jpg\")
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As I complete some sets, I put the remaining yarn into a bag. Since I\u2019m beyond the halfway point of 100 sets and it\u2019s May, I’m taking a few days to just make hats. Even after making a couple of hats, I have some yarn left and will combine those with gray or brown and use the them to make hats with accents. If you haven\u2019t figured this out yet, I don\u2019t like to waste yarn. When it gets to a very small amount <5 yards, I add it to a mystery ball.<\/p>\n Making hats with a limited about of yarn is fun because there are constraints… almost like yarn chicken in every hat. Ok, not really. I save the bands for yarn and some will give a yardage. If I have unused full balls, or I can rewind the partially used ones to give me a better estimate of how much I have. I could weigh the yarn to get an idea of how much I have. That\u2019s more accurate, but not as much fun. Instead, I reach into one of the bags and see how much I have, then go through the hat patterns that I have committed to memory and begin.<\/p>\n I\u2019m impressed with the end results – warm hats<\/strong>.<\/p>\n There\u2019s still a bit of yarn left in the bag and hopefully I\u2019ll make a dent in the bag once I make 10 hats or so. Then I\u2019ll go back to making sets and continue to add to the bag. It\u2019s an ongoing cycle. Unless I put the remainder back into my working stash because I bought a large quantity on sale and will use it later. There\u2019s always a plan, even if I don\u2019t know what it is when I begin. That\u2019s the creative part.<\/p>\n Happy crocheting!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For me, one way of using up leftover yarn is to make oddball hats. There is never the right amount of yarn for a project. When you buy something just as when you guy a carton of eggs and only need 3 for a recipe, you will have some left over. Depending on the style […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Oddball](\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Leftoveroddballs2022-300x225.jpg\")