Due to my recent sock kick (here and here) I’ve got little bits of yarn hanging around. I tend to lose little bits if I just tuck them away. So I implemented a solution I saw in a magazine/Pinterest/somewhere…
Eventually these will fill up and I’ll have pretty vases full of yummy yarn bits. The hope is that I’ll always be able to find sock yarn for sock repair or perhaps a scrap project sometime. Not to mention something I can dig my hands into and pet the lovelies 🙂
How do you store your leftovers you can’t part with?
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Great idea. Mine get crammed in a plastic bag and I can never find them when needed.
I have a closet full of totes for yarn. I have one specifically for odds and ends, but I just might have to find a vase for sock yarn. That’s really cute.
They are now living on my mantle to keep me motivated 🙂
I do exactly this, but my jars are stuffed full, I could use a few more. My kids raid the jars constantly to create things…stair railings & chairs are forever tangled in yarn webs from someone’s mischief. I find my jars of leftover bits to be very inspiring, too. I often create new color combinations in my knitting just by looking at the way the bits interact in the glass jars. Always having the bits handy for darning is definitely a plus–knitting minds must think alike. 😉
I’ve been turning all of mine into squares…eventually I’m going to have the most obnoxious blanket that ever was. 🙂 I like your idea though….pretty! 🙂
Great idea! I have some empty jars sitting around. I’ll have to get busy filling them!
I just tossed them into my knitting basket, where they’d shift to the bottom and tangle. As i was sorting the basket last week, inspiration struck! With all if my worsted ends i started a log cabin blanket: i discovered that i really like green. Its about twelve inches now and i like it. With sock, sport and dk weights i am going to do a 10 stitch blanket.
Awesome!
My sock yarn scraps are all together in a big project bag – in theory they are becoming a scrap blanket (mitred square) but that’s hibernating at the moment so they’re really just sitting there.
It’s just a bag full of potential!
I do the same! I have two vases like that filled with miniskeins for a sock yarn blanket I haven’t worked on in years haha. Then I have two other smaller vases for larger-than-fingering leftovers and handspun samples.
I do the same 🙂 One jar per type of yarn or for the designated scrap user project.
Not so beautifully! In a ziplock bag in one of my stash boxes!
Mine are all over the place, what I great idea
I tried layering my bits like a rainbow
Oooh pretty!
I started the Leftovers Cowl by Wendy Johnson.
What a great idea!!!
I have to confess I usually just use my leftover bits for scrap yarn, or occasionally in the spring I’ll toss bits outside for the birds to nest with.