Yessss I’m finally organised enough to join in with Scrap Happy!
I have some organza bags of leftover yarn. Anything too long to count as ‘ends’, but too short to be made into anything by itself goes into the bag. A couple of weeks ago I was inspired to start a Heidi Bears triceratops and I decided to make it a scrappy one, using these leftovers.
The first step was to pull out all the acrylic yarn of roughly DK weight (very roughly, as I just eyeballed it) and stick it all in one bag for easy use, and then I started my African flowers by pulling out random colours. My only rule is that if I pull out too similar a colour to the previous round then I’ll pick a different one.
To prevent it looking like total chaos I’m doing the final round of each flower in cream yarn, which I’ll also use to join them all together, and I deliberately repeated a couple of the colour combinations. I’m not sure if the cream yarn counts as scrappy; it was left over from wildly overestimating how much I would need to finish off a blanket a couple of years ago and there’s so much left I could probably make a whole dinosaur out of it. Either way, I’m enjoying putting all this yarn to good use!
If you want some scrappy inspiration, check out the other Scrap Happy-ers (happy scrappers?) and their blogs:
Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Tracy,
Jill, Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Jon, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera,
Nanette, Ann, Dawn 2, Carol,
Preeti, Debbierose, Nóilin and Viv
Hannah
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