A totally scrappy endeavour Part One

Sometimes you need to make something easy, a kind of pick it up and just get on with it project that takes no thinking about, especially when you have more complicated projects on the go or several which is usually the case with me. Something you can work on while you are watching TV or when you have company, a push it in your bag and take it with you kind of project that you can work on in the bus, on a train or in a coffee shop.

Sometimes you look at your stash and you despair, we all love yarn true but it can get out of control and sometimes you wonder what on earth am I going to do with all these little bits.

 I have the answer well it worked for me anyway, just before I went into the hospital I was concerned about all of the above, mostly I knew that I would want to work on something that didn't need too much brain power when I came home, so I went on the hunt, looking for every last little pesky ball of yarn nothing would escape me...

There was much more than this believe me!

rounding it all up was the easy bit, then came the untangling, then the sorting into same weight yarn, I had bits of 4 ply, Aran weight and Dk all playing away happily together stuffed into bags, drawers in fact in every conceivable place.

Now, how would you like a project that is made up of lots of colours but without the weaving in of ends? sound too good to be true? well it can be done!...

This was the fun bit I have been dying to try out this method for ages the so called magic knot if you have never heard of it then check it out here it's great and it works but if you don't like the idea of knots in your work try the Russian Join a bit more fiddly but even more secure than the magic knot. (thanks Una for pointing this out to me)

All balls of yarn standing to attention in random order it takes a bit of courage it really does our orderly mind will say surely not those two colours together ignore it if you can and just go with the flow and keep joining those cute little balls until you have one huge ball of this variegated yarn or as huge a ball as you can comfortably handle and carry about with you, or you could have several huge balls I have. 

So what am I making with it?....

A totally Scrappy Blanket...

  
this is my blanket so far, I made a long chain and just worked row after row of (htr Uk) (hdc US) with the odd row of (fptr UK) (fpdc US) at intervals for interest.  I really don't think that the people who receive this blanket are going to care that it is full of magic knots or that there are several colours in each row.

This blanket is at my side just to pick up and put down it's not going to finish any time soon and that's okay it's serving a purpose both for me and for the people who will eventually use it either to cover themselves with or to sit down on I hope that all the colours will brighten their day just a little.

A totally scrappy endeavor Part Two coming soon.


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