Crocheters Thread

[SemiSweet2391]

I seriously need help.
This is my entire yarn stash and I have no idea what to do with it.
Here is all my fluffy yarn. On the top left separated by the few small cakes of super bulky and the Bernat Blanket are #4 Chenille/velvet. The rest is #6 super bulky.
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Here are all my cheap #4 acrylics, mostly Big twist. The cakes I winded are like 1/3 to 1/4 of a full 380yd skein. Among these are 2 variegated yarns and 1 slow color changing 1/2 skein (purple one)
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My scrappy drawer: the super bulky yarn scraps in here are VERY short and probably enough to make a large coaster sized amigurumi circle (but I do not need any more coasters) most are random acrylic.
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So my problem is that most of the acrylic #4 yarns are very bright and I don't wear any bright clothes, especially ones with many bright colors combined. The yarn is not even close to enough to make a full blanket, plus I do not have enough neutral color yarns to just sprinkle some bright colors in there randomly and sparsely. I am working on that granny square baby blanket and using up many of them that way but it still bothers me how many weird colors I have.

ALL the Bernat Blanket skeins that have labels on them are full skeins but I have no idea what to do with them. The other super bulky #6 ones are all pretty small skeins that again won't be enough to make any wearables or medium/large amigurumis even.

The #4 chenilles/velvets are also mostly small skeins with 2 big skeins (blue and brown) that I might work into a sweater or something but again, not enough light/neutral colors to go with them.

Anyone have a game plan for me to use up some of these? Donating isn't an option because I honestly spent hundreds on these and I think having some amount of each color is useful, but these are like medium but not small enough or large enough skeins.

My use for yarn I’m done with is a long term project I call “The FrankenBlanken” haha.

I found a blanket pattern that was easy to do and embraced the hideous. I just throw any yarn regardless of weight or color into the FrankenBlanken and let it grow over time. It doesn’t have a set finish date. I work on it whenever I feel like it. Hopefully someday I’ll have a huge gloriously hideous Frankenstein Blanket!

 

[ella2025]

My use for yarn I’m done with is a long term project I call “The FrankenBlanken” haha.

I found a blanket pattern that was easy to do and embraced the hideous. I just throw any yarn regardless of weight or color into the FrankenBlanken and let it grow over time. It doesn’t have a set finish date. I work on it whenever I feel like it. Hopefully someday I’ll have a huge gloriously hideous Frankenstein Blanket!

Good idea! I might make some kind of tunisian Entrelac pattern and try something new while using the rest of my yarn

 

[ella2025]

My use for yarn I’m done with is a long term project I call “The FrankenBlanken” haha.

I found a blanket pattern that was easy to do and embraced the hideous. I just throw any yarn regardless of weight or color into the FrankenBlanken and let it grow over time. It doesn’t have a set finish date. I work on it whenever I feel like it. Hopefully someday I’ll have a huge gloriously hideous Frankenstein Blanket!

Do you switch hook sizes at all?

 

[ella2025]

My current pride and joy: 23 granny squares out of the 30 I will make a blanket out of.

I'm thinking about putting a scalloped border. I know those eat yarn but have never done it because I've never made anything other than amigurumis. Will I have to buy a full skein of (undecided but probably white) yarn?

 

[SemiSweet2391]

Do you switch hook sizes at all?

Nah. It’s supposed to be low stress. I’m just going to let it be who it is haha

 

[Love Donkeys]

I used to keep all my yarn in a 55gal cardboard drum. It was always getting tangled and I never could figure out what color I could use for the next afghan. A few years ago I spent 3 days straightening out my yarn. I never realized how much of one color I had!

 

[Finnie]

My use for yarn I’m done with is a long term project I call “The FrankenBlanken” haha.

I love this!

 

[Finnie]

I seriously need help.
This is my entire yarn stash and I have no idea what to do with it.
Here is all my fluffy yarn. On the top left separated by the few small cakes of super bulky and the Bernat Blanket are #4 Chenille/velvet. The rest is #6 super bulky.
View attachment 4279272

Here are all my cheap #4 acrylics, mostly Big twist. The cakes I winded are like 1/3 to 1/4 of a full 380yd skein. Among these are 2 variegated yarns and 1 slow color changing 1/2 skein (purple one)
View attachment 4279275

My scrappy drawer: the super bulky yarn scraps in here are VERY short and probably enough to make a large coaster sized amigurumi circle (but I do not need any more coasters) most are random acrylic.
View attachment 4279277
So my problem is that most of the acrylic #4 yarns are very bright and I don't wear any bright clothes, especially ones with many bright colors combined. The yarn is not even close to enough to make a full blanket, plus I do not have enough neutral color yarns to just sprinkle some bright colors in there randomly and sparsely. I am working on that granny square baby blanket and using up many of them that way but it still bothers me how many weird colors I have.

ALL the Bernat Blanket skeins that have labels on them are full skeins but I have no idea what to do with them. The other super bulky #6 ones are all pretty small skeins that again won't be enough to make any wearables or medium/large amigurumis even.

The #4 chenilles/velvets are also mostly small skeins with 2 big skeins (blue and brown) that I might work into a sweater or something but again, not enough light/neutral colors to go with them.

Anyone have a game plan for me to use up some of these? Donating isn't an option because I honestly spent hundreds on these and I think having some amount of each color is useful, but these are like medium but not small enough or large enough skeins.

You could do something like this with your #4s:

https://theunraveledmitten.com/2024/01/02/2024-crochet-along-terrific-textures-throw/

Since each block is a different stitch/pattern/texture, it would probably be ok to throw in some random other fibers and weights. Or if the chenille ones just don’t quite look right with the worsted, save them up until you have enough to do a separate chenille blanket.

For the chunky chenille, I have found that just doing straight rows of single, half or double crochet and alternating colors makes a nice blanket. Let me see if I have a picture of the one I did recently.

Found it:
I didn’t have enough of the pink multi color to make a decent sized blanket, but I was lucky enough to find the blue at Goodwill, so by striping them, it was big enough.

 

[ella2025]

I used to keep all my yarn in a 55gal cardboard drum. It was always getting tangled and I never could figure out what color I could use for the next afghan. A few years ago I spent 3 days straightening out my yarn. I never realized how much of one color I had! View attachment 4279443

Beautiful stash! I store my yarn similarly too. They're all squished into this tiered cart looking thingy. I have many colors but like half a skein of each color so I cannot make any cool designs or afghans out of it. I think I might find a few amigurumi patterns that can be made with any color and just use that. Im 5 squared away from finishing my blanket, so most of those colors will be used hopefully. Then I will buy some white yarn and hopefully make my first sweater

 

[muddy75]

You could do something like this with your #4s:

https://theunraveledmitten.com/2024/01/02/2024-crochet-along-terrific-textures-throw/

Since each block is a different stitch/pattern/texture, it would probably be ok to throw in some random other fibers and weights. Or if the chenille ones just don’t quite look right with the worsted, save them up until you have enough to do a separate chenille blanket.

For the chunky chenille, I have found that just doing straight rows of single, half or double crochet and alternating colors makes a nice blanket. Let me see if I have a picture of the one I did recently.

Found it: View attachment 4279534
I didn’t have enough of the pink multi color to make a decent sized blanket, but I was lucky enough to find the blue at Goodwill, so by striping them, it was big enough.

I like half double for chunky chenille