What are some knitting or crocheting projects I could make with leftover yarn from previous projects?

Answer 1

Sounds like it's a "Scrap 'Ghan" time! Afghans made out of the left over yarn can turn outt o be beautiful and always unique. Either a simple granny square using the different colors you have.
Or, I also included some link to other scrap afghan patterns:

Answer 2

There are several books about what to do with odd balls of yarn, but unless you're heavily into cushion covers and things that look as if an elderly aunt made them with left-over yarn some time in the second world war I'd avoid them. If you have got *lots* of left-overs, then there is one very good book I'd recommend, called Sally Melville's Styles (author: Sally Melville - sorry about that) and she's got that touch of creativity and fashion about her that most of the others lack (and she designs real garments, not cushion covers). You could also get hold of any of Kaffe Fassett's knitting books, because he has a huge talent for mixing lots of colours and yarns in glorious combinations.

Or if you haven't got a huge stash of yarn but still don't want to produce the elderly-aunt type of work, then if the yarn is wool (and not superwash wool) you could learn about felting - that's where you wash the completed thingummy so that it shrinks (you can control by how much) and doesn't look like it's been made from left-overs. That can take you into bags and other useful items: I'd recommend another Sally Melville book (The Knitting Experience Volume 3: Colour) for lots of suggestions on how to do this. Good luck.

Answer 3

Besides categorizing yarn left-overs in zip lock bags by color and type of yarn (you don't want to store wool with acrylics), and using the three ring binders with plastic sheet protectors for computer patterns or patterns I've cut out of magazines I no longer want, I also use some plastic holders to put my paperback books and leaflets in the binders. Annie's Attic has some in their last catalog. They slip over the pages of your book to the center and have a three hole punch on them to hook them into the binder. If you use the view binders, you can make decorative binder spines and covers for your categories of patterns. I also use the hard plastic magazine holders that you find in office supply stores and categorize patterns and pattern books by crochet, knit, cross-stitch, etc. You can also make these by taking a cereal box and cutting it on two sides diagonally and then covering with contact paper, fabric or whatever, but the hard plastic ones are cheap and come in lots of colors. If floor space for shelves to store the magazine holders is a problem, put some shelves up higher, around each wall to store them. It really helps keep them organized. I have 60 gallon plastic tubs for skeins of yarn, but cubicles would be more ideal if you have the space in a closet. Another room or two for yarn, crafts and sewing would be ideal!! =)

Answer 4

Take your scraps and crochet a granny square BUT keep going make it very large... say 24 inches a cross. Then purchase a pillow form and you can fold up each of the corners to make a triangle in the middle ..stich around the pillow form..wa la granny pillow !

Answer 5

My grandma was an avid crocheter (I'm a knitter). She saved all her bits of leftover yarn and made granny square afgans. You need quite a lot of the main color (she usually did black or cream) to put it all together, I think. Good luck!

Answer 6

To follow in the granny square vein, I've been slowly amassing squares for this sucker: http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/afghans/garter.htm There's a stockinette version as well, but the rows don't follow the way the garter version does.

Answer 7

Well I started a granny square and just kept adding scraps of the color of my choice as I ran out of a color and ended up with a large blanket for the couch or the bed.You can make it as large as you want it,just keep going around and around.Mine turned out to be a conversation piece whenever company came to see me.

Answer 8

http://knitty.com/archiveWHIMSIES.html There are a lot of cute things on this that don't use a whole lot of yarn. I haven't tried any of them yet, but I'm anxious to knit the Kate cat and the Pasha penguin. They're so adorable!

Answer 9

I like to just knit or crochet them up and make blankets to donate to your local shelter or neonatal hospital. They are always in need. Hope this helps.

Answer 10

I've made striped hats or bags scarves. they're fun looking because they're colorful, (some get claimed by family & friends others get donated). My neice just asked me to make a blanket, we talked it over and she didn't want the granny square, so we decided to just do sort of scarf style and put them together. this way she'd get color blocks and a more solid blanket, less holes (like most ganny squares)
***********All depends on your scraps i guess.