Skinny, variegated, thick, and thick/variegated, all in one: The only one with candy yarn: Soft and suvvy pink: I had some super skinny yarn, too: One of 2 with this shiny pink: I love this uber-soft green: Close-up of sparkly yarn: One of 3 with blue: | One of 3 with blue; 2nd and 3rd rows are the same yarn: Close-up of the candy yarn: The only one with purple: Just a bit of dazzling black: I had a lot of yellow: I had a lot of pink, too: One of 2 with sparkly yarn: The only one with this center yarn: |
I had a bunch of little bits of yarn left over from various projects. Just about every color and variegated you can imagine, I had it, although interestingly, I only had a tiny bit of purple and just a small amount of blue. Green, pink, yellow, and all the shades of white imaginable made up the majority of my stockpile. What was I to do with all these little bits of yarn? None of my balls were big enough to do any kind of project, but I couldn't bear to throw them away! So I scoured the internet and came up with this: crocheting a hexagon blanket. You can see my bucketful of odds and ends, as well as the first 3 rows of a bunch of hexagons. The bag of very tiny odds and ends in the bag in the lower right corner are the pieces that are too short to do the smallest circle. I will probably throw these away. Now, the other people that I found who did this used the same colors in each hexagon and the resulting blankets looked very "put together". But I didn't have a lot of one color, and since each hexagon had four rows, I decided to change colors and make a very multi-colored blanket. Here are my results: Here is the entire blanket spread out on the chair. Seven rows across and eleven rows long. And here it is draped over the couch waiting for me to get cold: And now I am off to Michaels to buy a bunch of skeins of three colors, and I'm going to make a patriotic hexagon blanket next.
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Mom
4/27/2013 03:44:56 pm
You will HAVE to teach me how to do this! I love it! It reminds me so much of the granny square afghan Grandma made me for college. But hers were granny squares. I have lots (not nearly as many as you did!!) of small balls of yarn--didn't know what to do with them, but can't throw them away! Beautiful project!
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