Last November I happened to take a look at the shit show of leftover yarn I had stashed behind my easy chair in the front room. I had dozens and dozens of balls of different colored yarn, in various sizes. I had anywhere from almost full skeins of yarn, down to small balls the size of a golf ball. They were stacked up in totes and small bags and they were getting out of control. One night I had a brainy idea - I'd take the scraps and use them to make a blanket.
I started by using a "P" size hook and grabbed 3 random colors of yarn. I chained 120 stitches and then just started single crocheting row after row. Any time a strand of yarn ran out, I reached down, grabbed a new color, tied it on, and kept going. Since all the balls of yarn were different lengths, the yarn colors would run out at different times, so there was always new color combinations going on. I liked that because I get bored easily so I was always excited to add in a new color.
I just kept crocheting row after row until it got almost as long as I wanted, and then I began to crochet around the entire blanket until I had added a few rows all the way around.
I liked the contrast of the lines running around the outside of the blanket...
So there it is - the perfect yarn busting project. I did a couple of rows almost every night while watching TV, so this took me about 8 weeks to finish. See, I told you I was slow! This blanket will probably get taken down to the lake house and put at the end of one of the beds. And believe it or not, I still have a few more balls of left over yarn. Looks like another project for next year maybe.
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