Bond Machine Knitting - Uses for Yarn Scraps

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:26:19 -0700
From: Patrick & Linda Boudreau (plboudreau@ns.sympatico.ca)
Subject: [BOND] Scraps of yarns

I read and downloaded a pattern on another list this week where the
person saved all of their mohairs and favourite yarns and knit them into
triangles, she used 71 in her shawl and it was gorgeous.

	This could be done on the ISM using worsted or whatever, all you have
to do is cast on one stitch, and increase each end until you have a
total of 25 stitches, then cast off.  Repeat for as many triangles as
you can make and go onto the next scrap yarn.  Join the triangles to
form a large triangular shawl and crochet or slips titch them together.

	Sounds gorgeous to me.

Bonding Buddy
Linda

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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 12:53:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Val2571214@aol.com
Subject: [BOND] scrap yarn

I read somewhere that somebody used all of their scrap yarn in a vest, just
knitting a couple of rows at a time with each color and then moving on.  I
know that this would leave a lot of ends to weave in, but has anybody tried
this?  (I'm wondering if a youngster, or even an adult might like the
"fiesta" effect of black mixed in randomly with bright, maybe even loud
colors?)

I for one, am using a lot of my scrap yarn (In large quantities) to crochet
tops on Christmas dishtowels that loop over the handle of the stove and
button.  Going to give them as gifts to my friends that I can't afford to buy
for, but that I'd like to give a little token to.  The dishtowels cost me 97
cents each, and I cut every one in half, zigzagged the raw edge on my sewing
machine, ran a buttonhole stitch by hand across the top with my trusty
tapestry needle, and then crocheted from there.  I think it took me about 1
hour to make one last night, and that was because I kept having to frog.....
  was making up the pattern as I went along!  Turned out pretty nice, and I
think I might iron it to flatten some of the bumps from the crocheting.  

If you have a lot of several quantities of yarn and you have some small kids
to get gifts for, you might make them snakes....  just knit long skinny
panels and seam them into a tube...  I saw a pattern for a giant one a few
years ago that doubles as a chair in the corner once you coil him up!!!  Just
couldn't stand the thought of doing thousands of rows of single crochet ...
Why not bond instead?

Valarie in Tennessee

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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 15:27:01 -0700
From: styxer@cyberhighway.net
Subject: Re: [BOND] tons of scrap yarn

I am in the process of finishing an afghan for the Warm Up America project,
and I made many squares on the Bond.

The square is supposed to be 7" X 9", and that worked out to be 28 stitches
by 51 rows, using closed edge CO, ending COL, and using backstitch bind off.

However, I was thinking you could make an entire panel knitted on the Bond,
and change colors after every 51 rows, until you've got a total of 9 colors
on the panel (the WAA afghan is 7 panels by 9 squares).  Then, if you have
enough of each scrap color, you could just make an entire patchwork afghan
that way.  I have an afghan planned for me on the Bond this way, when UFO's
are done...!

Julie (the Styx fan)
styxer@cyberhighway.net

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