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Leftover Yarns Made Beautiful
Every time I teach a class about taking leftover yarns and turning them into beautiful fabric I get excited about the process all over again! And so it happens yet again, one week after teaching Knit a Masterpiece From Leftover Yarns at Stitches West. I was wearing my version of the skirt from our FLY Skirt KAL […]
Life Lessons from Leftover Yarns
This time last week I was teaching my last class for Stitches Midwest. It is called Knit a Masterpiece from Leftover Yarns and it is the perfect Sunday afternoon class. Every student had access to the same materials, information and stitch patterns. But as I have seen dozens of times, each swatch came out very […]
More Fun with Leftover Yarn
Today I was in Greenville, SC teaching for their guild. This morning’s class was about using leftover yarns to create a masterpiece. So today’s post is pictures only: We started with this! Soon it became this (and many more like these) — Aren’t they FABULOUS? Finally they became these WONDERFUL bits of fabrics! Feeling inspired? […]
Top 5 Techniques to Maximize Leftover Yarns
I don’t know about you, but I have LOTS of leftover yarns and I really don’t want them to go to waste. So I’ve got a few techniques for using up leftover yarns to share with you! In less than a month, we are going to be starting the FLY (From Leftover Yarn) Skirt KAL. […]
Spring Cleaning and Your Yarn Stash
Several months ago I heard about a book called The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. As a life-long messy person, I was intrigued. And although I had to discount some of the details I found to be a bit silly, the general premises made a lot of sense to me. So […]
Multi-colored Yarns: Simpler Is Better
As folks begin thinking about stitch patterns for their FLY Skirt KAL projects I wanted to provide some thoughts on the subject. Because FLY stands for From Leftover Yarn, these projects will be using lots of different yarns in two similar color groups. Because of this, there is an opportunity to get a stripe effect, […]
Inspiration Sunday: More Leftovers (by Gwen)
Officially, today is not my day to post, but I missed yesterday and honestly this fits better today anyway! Once again Kellie and I were on the same wave length since I was working on this project!! It is a covering to a another bag (which Kellie talked about last Saturday) using potentially very small […]
Fine Finishing: The Remains of the Yarn
When you complete a project, what do you do with the remaining yarn? Do you save it for repairs or the prospect of duplicating the project at another time? Do you donate it to charity? Do you precisely and promptly put a sample in your knitting journal, then if there is enough, knit a hat […]
Think Tank: Yarn Choices
As you might be able to guess, the swatch above contains LOTS of different yarns. In fact, it is a swatch for my next jacket and uses primarily leftover bits and pieces. So I can easily say I have worked with almost everything. But even so, I still have to say that wool and wool […]
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