pathological knitting habit

[sev]

I've begun hoarding yarn scraps. I just can't bring myself to throw them away. Small balls of yarn, in case something I'm knitting needs a bit of color. Four-foot-long strands left over from projects. I even get a twinge when I throw away a six-inch scrap I cut off a finished project.

Maybe I need to get one of those books of different kinds of stitches, or the stitch-a-day calendar, or something, so I can knit up these scraps into little sample-squares. Then I can stow them in a bag with my gauge swatches, which I keep threatening to stitch together into a blanket-or-something. That might save the hat I'm knitting for Z from any potential experimentation.

It's not like I don't have enough projects, though. I have plenty of projects, and I have plenty of yarn. Plenty! I just have this ... yarn-hoarding affliction. How embarassing.

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[redandfiery.livejournal.com]

It's not just you. I never throw away little bits of wool either.

Last week I hauled out all the little piddly bits of yarn I had stashed, and crocheted a baby blanket for Project Linus with them. I just crocheted with each colour till I'd finished it, then tied on the next one - there wasn't much of any of them - so the finished item looks like a crocheted rag rug, only with better colour co-ordination. I'm quite pleased with it.

[sev]

oooh, that sounds very neat. Post a picture?

Was the yarn mostly the same size? I have a mix of worsted-weight, chunky, and fingering. I suppose I don't have much chunky, so I could use the worsted as-is and then do two strands of the fingering at a time.

Though I really suck at crochet. Perhaps I'll stick with my making-squares-into-a-blanket plan. :) A bunch of my friends are having babies, and it's good to know about Project Linus if nobody happens to have a baby handy when I finish the blanket...