I finished the Yo socks from the April CookieA club patterns a couple of weeks ago.
Project Specs
Pattern: Yo
Pattern Source: CookieA sock club, April 2011 pattern
Yarn: Lorna’s Laces Sock Yarn; mill end, one of a kind
Needles: US 1 dpn’s
Date Started: 4/16/11
Date Finished: 4/23/11
Finished Dimensions: Women’s Large
And my jar of scraps for TULSA. Not filling up quite as quickly as I thought it would, although I have been doing more spinning of late than knitting.
My very BIG jar with clippings from projects. Looking down into it. I wonder if I can fill this up this year.
I saw this on Allysa’s blog (alias Allyoops). The idea is to have a large jar, and put your clippings from projects throughout the year into it. It is called TULSA, a Totally Useless Stitch Along. Also, you need to photograph it every full moon for a year. I thought it would be interesting to do. When I work on Fair Isle, I often have many ends from even a small baby sweater. This will become a different kind of timeline of finished projects.
I chose a VERY large jar. It is a blue glass mason jar that I purchased at an Antiques store a couple of years ago. I have a collection of blue mason jars, that were retrieved from my parents farm many years ago, that hold all of my grains and beans in my kitchen. When I saw this jar, which we guessed was a display piece in a store, I knew it was for me.
And my first clippings:
Wow! That is a big jar o.o Hope you have fun with the SAL 🙂
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I’m saving little bits of yarn too, as long as they are natural fibres and not too brightly coloured, but they are for the birds to use for nesting material. I heard a gardening programme on the radio that said that there is a great shortage of suitable nesting material because more farm animals are kept indoors these days. Little bits of wool should be very good for lining a nest I think. In the spirit of TUSAL, I ‘ll try to remember to take a photo of my collection before I put it out in the graden.
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