New season, new potholders.
Recently my blog has become the Treasury away from the Treasury. It's fun to choose the items & create an Etsy Treasury, a bit like crafting itself, & so I became carried away...
I promise to focus on other things for a while. I have all sorts of other topics to blog about!
Today, I am like a squirrel storing nuts for Winter - I have a drawer full of tired & motley looking pot holders & oven mitts. I plan to discard them all, & begin again. I have the additional goal of spending zero to replace them, which won't be a problem with my extensive stash.
I'm going to break into this thrifted wool tapestry yarn - a rainbow selection of great 70s colors. It looked beautiful arranged in its own special box, but life is too short to save it any longer. Combined with some Briggs & Little natural aran wool, I should be able to turn out some good-looking felted pot holders & oven mitts for my kitchen drawer.
Just the type of knitting I'm in the mood for.
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4 comments:
I love the colors and can't wait to see your finished potholders.
Oh, this is a great idea! What great colors you have, too. Hooray for using stash on useful and quickly knit items!!!
Come to think of it, I could use some new pot
holders too. New pot holders=happiness and joy. However since I'm the anti-crafty person. I'll be heading down to Target for 'em.
Melanie
Thanks Allena! I've got two ready to felt already...
Carolyn: I wanted to save this rainbow yarn until I found a project that would use all of the yarn completely & well - it's tough to meet this criterion so I decided to let it go.
Melanie: Excellent plan. PLUS, there is surely something else you'll need once you get there. I don't hang potholders around my kitchen for display. Do you?
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