My socks and skirt and progressing. There’s not much to show – they look mostly the same, there’s just more of them now. The skirt actually has a little bit of shaping to it, but its not very visible. So since there’s not much to talk about with the current WIPs, what’s next?
I finally have a plan for last year’s Halloween advent! I have been puzzling over this vast array of mini skeins for the past year and trying to pick a pattern for them. But they didn’t really seem suited for any of the projects out there that are for this much yarn. They don’t really make a fade together, and they are too special to just stick in a generic pattern for using up miniskeins. So I decided to make something up. The theme for this advent was Nightmare Before Christmas, so I am going to knit patches of the different colors and crochet and/or stitch them together into a shawl.
I’m going for a patchy, mismatchy effect, kind of like Sally’s dress
It won’t be the same colors as the dress, but just generally going for the effect. I’m planning on all kinds of different patches – mitered and center-out squares, long rectangles, striped sections… really they could be anything!
So the rest of September is getting the skirt and socks done and getting all of these mini skeins wound up, so it’s ready to go for October!
Do you ever get yarn (or other craft supplies) and then struggle to figure out what to do with them?
Quite A Yarn 
Ohh that’s going to be awesome! Kind of reminds me of this: https://www.tinatseknits.com/pattern-shop/home-sweet-home-formula
And yeah, I almost always buy yarn without a plan, especially as a reminder of a trip or a special time in my life. But I’m trying to be better at that.
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That is a nifty pattern! I do a lot of random yarn buying too. Probably should stop, but I don’t see that happening any time soon 🙂
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Oh that sounds like a good plan, be interesting to see it coming along 👌
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Thank you! I hope so 🙂
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Always! I buy FQs with no idea what I am making with them, and then never find a pattern they will work in. And yarn, yeah, too much of that buying without a pattern in mind going on here. LOL
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Right there with you!
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All the time! That’s what happens when you buy yarn just because it’s pretty! 😂 This will be an awesome project, though!
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🙂 I hope so!
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That sounds like a really fun plan:) I have a nice set of mini skeins but no plan. Normally this would bother me but I like the yarn/colors too much to worry about rushing to use them.
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Sometimes it’s OK to have yarn just because it’s pretty!
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Ooh that sounds so good! Much better than just chucking them into a generic minis shawl/blanket. I’m already looking forward to your progress posts 🙂
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🙂 Thanks! I hope it will work out OK.
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Yes, and I really need to stop doing that.
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Nah!
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That will be so cute! You’re so clever. I try not to buy yarn that doesn’t have a plan, but I signed up for my first advent this year. We’ll see what happens!
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I find I use my fingering yarn way easier than other weights.
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