Scrap yarn

[antara]

Does anyone know where I can send my scrap yarn? I mean those little 2-inch balls. I don't like to make scrap items, and I'd like to send the yarn to someone who would use it, preferrably for charity.

[Ambersafghans]

Don't throw them away I'll look around!

I have listed some charities in this topic, you could try emailing them. I know that at least most of them (erin's helping hands for sure) Want yarn.

Amber

[Guest ConnieCrayola]

The charities for scrap yarn is a good idea, I keep it too hoping to find someway to make something but have so many different colors and hard to match up to make something then I saw this post here under: Other crochet topics/Georgeous Free-form crochet.. WOW is beautiful work with scrap yarn she seems to have no problem using it up. Wish I could free form like that! Thanks for the look

[Guest LauraKrycek]

You can send it to me! I'm currently taking donations for my foray into the Snuggles project (www.h4ha.org/snuggles). It's my goal to personally make 75 blankets (25 of each size) by next St. Patrick's Day... since I started a few days ago, I've made four. I don't have nearly enough material right now to make that many, which is why I'm begging people to give me anything that they can. Some people I know are emptying their closets of old tee and sweat shirts for me to quilt them. If you're interested, please e-mail me at Laura_Jordan@berea.edu. Thanks!

[antara]

Great! I'll be e-mailing you in the next day or two. I've heard of the snuggles project, I've actually sewn a couple blankets for them. That's a great charity! Good luck with your goal.

[head2toepets2go]

i have a fabulous pattern for making striped afghans with scrap yarn. it uses every last inch and they are quick & easy & can be made any size. i hated using the "icky little balls of yarn" too until i found this pattern. i just mix all my yarn to together & grab whatever color to use next ..... after you've done the first 6-8 inches you think you've made the biggest mistake of your life but i all works out ok, especially when i do a solid colored border. i you're interested in the pattern just let me know & i can send it

 

fran

[Guest SamplerLady]

I tie all my "little" scraps together, too, and just start crocheting a granny square or other simple stitch and use them up, too. My grandkids think they are gorgeous! I've also added a solid color, used two strands and larger hook to make blankets, too. The solid color seems to create a continuity that moves it one step beyond a "leftover" piece. First time I did that was almost 22 years ago while waiting form my second son to be born. He was due around the first week in December and arrived on Christmas Eve. Was staying with my mother and used up all her left over yarn making the afghan! It was huge and it's still on his bed! )

[Ambersafghans]

Hi Fran! Welcome to Crochetville! I'd be interested in that pattern if it's simple to send. you could email me at my ezinbox. Ambersafghans. I hope you enjoy it here!

Amber

[antara]

Thanks, head2toe. I've got a lot of stuff planned out right now, but I'll keep that in mind if I get in the mood to make an afghan. I also found a charity called Circles of Hope. They're little circles (though mine turn out as squares) that take a very low amount of yarn to make. They have instructions for peicing them together, or you can send them to them, and they'll make blankets and all sorts of other stuff for all kinds of charities.

[Deb]

Fran! <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/wave.gif" /> I'd like that pattern! I have a grandmother that has lots of time on her hands.. and plenty of yarn scraps.

 

(It'd be nice to have it for myself as well.)

 

Thanks!

[shelbyro]

SamplerLady--

 

That is a Fabulolus idea. Up til now (and I've only been crocheting for a year and a half), I have been making individual squares to use up yarn. BUT, that means I need to join them to make a blanket: :thumbsdown I am gonna start doing the giant granny square, just adding a new "end" when I am close to finishing a skein.

 

Thanks!

[head2toepets2go]

i completely forgot that before i was making afghans, that i used my teeny-tiny balls to make yo-yo clowns ..... i made a couple to go into those shoe-box-Christmas-gifts-things for kids, but my then 1-year-old ran all over the house with them before i got them packed away. here's the link

 

target="_new">hometown.aol.com/crocheta...clown.html</a>

[RebeccaVelasquez]

oh those are cute! thanks for the link. that would make such a good gift for a 1yr old!!!

 

my vic laughed and laughed at the picture :rollin