Oh folks, here’s the deal. I am a beginner knitter so I am not up to socks or mittens yet (dpn are scary). I’m constantly seeing these lovely single balls of yarn on ebay that are not a bad price. You know… the ones that are hand spun/dyed and look really great! Alas, they also look like they are too small to make anything with them. What do you all do with small balls like this? Was thinking of getting one and making a scarf as a christmas gift but I’m afraid of running out and hate to waste this nice yarn by adding something else to it. I can’t really afford to go crazy with the yarn spending so this seems like a nice option if I can pull it off.
Does it tell you how many yards are there? You can make a hat with about 200 yards or so of yarn. Or if it is less you could make a headband to keep your ears warm in the winter.
I think the scrunchable scarf is a great, easy, fast project that looks really beautiful with a handpainted yarn (much prettier than the picture in the link). If you have about 200 yards and cast on 20 stitches, you can knit a long skinny scarf about 6 feet long.
When I started back knitting I made lots of scarves. I found they were a good way to learn to get the tension right. Also, had trouble with small needles (1,2,3) so I took a skein of self striping sock yarn and cast on 22 stitches on a size 3 needle and knit a long scarf. It came out great and looked like I did alot of work but just used self striping yarn. It was fun to see the stripes appear in the scarf and now I am very comfortable with the small needles which I use for socks.
Well I’ve been making lots of things because I thought I would do crafts shows and sell things. (I did my first craft show last month and didn’t sell anything! ha It was a bad day for all though)
But I make something I call my Lucky 7 scarves. Only 7 stitches but then really long. I like little scarves wound round and round the neck and then of course, you just stop when you run out. There are some picturs of them on this post if you want to see them.
No need to fear the dreaded dpns. They’re not so hard Amy has a great video on them. I watched the video over and over until I got it down. You can also use 2 circular needles which by the way Amy also has a video on. They make small circular knitting very easy.
fingerless gloves
I got this teeny tiny 10" circular needle just for things like that
36 stitches around on a #8 needle, and yarn up to fancy and softer Bulky
just make a tube of about 6-8 rows, then back and forth for 8-10 rows, then back to making a Tube for a few inches till its going to cover your wrists
then bind off, and make the match
I used less than one skein for any pair
it was a lot of fun
knitting in the round.