A year in yarn!

Okay so one quilting project slipped in!

Happy new yarn year to you all!

Happy December 25th

the day is known to be stressful... But why?

Even if the tree is crooked or the decorations aren't just so, it's okay!

Just look forward and find the next place to land!

Yesterday I had a good time with the comings and goings of someone in my neighborhood.  By the end of the day, I had conjured up a whole back story while I crocheted more blocks!

Here's hoping you can take a moment and look around you today...and if the beginnings of a spy novel come to you, all the better!

Squares, the first stop on the way to strings.

So, I might be a teeny tiny touch obsessed.
Well, obsessed is a strong word.
Preoccupied, passionate, intrusive to the point of....okay yeah. Obsessed.

But! I've taken about three plastic grocery bags full of leftovers and now have 68 finished squares and  45 something blocks that just need their icing (white row) in order to be finished.

Here are the iced and un-iced cookies! 

This s Mrs obsessive Claus' work top 

(I.e. A TV tray so I can watch gingerbread baking competition, etc)

And I found this little beauty hiding in a corner.

It's a partial skein of Wintuk yarn.  Cost?

78 cents!

Skeins are getting smaller and costing more. So less than a dollar this one cost!

For me, this little project will cost less than $6.00. The only yarn I'm buying is the white!
I've spent two different crochet day on this with some hours in between...so it's costing me about 30 cents an hour!

Here's hoping you find freebie fun today!

Strings, the finale....or is it?

so the pet mat was just finished and sadly I could not entice my usual model to come for a resting photo.  Alas, it will happen as he stared at the final colors going into the mat with what I can only imagine as avarice, or perhaps confidence in that he will be able to attack it later.  I must admit I'm mostly pleased that this used up my tiny bits of string.

No full skeins were harmed in the making of this pet mat!

It has encouraged me to get back to my squares which is what caused the strings in the first place.
Nothing like ending 2019 on a good note of using and reusing and recycling!

I call this the pretty side.

This is the activity side!

This has definitely renewed my desire to finish projects again so although the list of UFO's are smaller, I might be energized to chase them again!  

Here's hoping you mark something off your to-do list or progress them at least today!

Strings

so, to go along with my thanksgiving project of using up yarn bits and pieces, I am left with little tiny amounts of yarn, like this....

So what's a girl to do?  Well, she gets a little stubborn.  She refuses to throw away any string more than say 20 inches long....
And so she ties them together and winds them into one big ball, well four good sized balls that look like this...

And then she single crochets them into a small rug thing to put on the sofas so the cats can lay on it. Except she didn't realize how many frickin strings it would take!  One ball of strings only netted about five inches of finished product!

 

A look on the fuzzy side.

But it's been quite fun to use up these bits while making something useful at the same time.
I quite enjoyed finishing up so many projects this year and these mats will be like a visual photo album of projects past!


Here's hoping you find a use for every little thing in your life today!

It's beginning to feel more like Christmas...

I made the classic Christmas blunder. I overbought.  You know how sometimes you buy wrapping paper in January forgetting that you already have a good stash?  Well this year it was cards. I shopped small business Saturday and found some cute Christmas cards.  I brought them home and pulled out last year's leftovers and.....well, I believe there were seven different kinds of cards, 45+ cards!

Whoops!  Oh well, it made the card giving task kind of fun because you could choose what felt right for each card recipient.

I neglected to get some cute holiday stamps to go with, but oh well!

With a few exceptions, the first wave is done.

We always find someone else, or need to find an address.

In the meantime. The stockings are getting some 'fur' on top.  I still think I can finish this weekend. Stuff with a few candies and the workplace giveaways will be done!

Here is hoping you persevere to completion on whatever task you work on today!

What I did on my holiday weekend

After ten days of being sick I was finally feeling better.
As has become my habit, I seem to want to start a new project since it was the holiday weekend.
Since leftovers seem to be the theme, I went looking for the leftover yarn.

No ball was too small.  I started with variegated centers and neutrals followed.

A dark color came next

Followed by a whit border.  I managed to get over  50 squares in process.

I relooked in the bag and I had not even used a half of the smallest of leftovers!

I did find a very small skein of 'plastic canvas yarn'. 

The price tag was amusing for two reasons. One that it was from a Ben Franklin store.

I have not seen one of those for years. 

And the price of $.40 ...well that's even more amazing!

Here's hoping you find something to do with your leftovers, no matter what they are.