I am participating in a bit of a crazy endeavour. I joined up in the summer and am in the midst of it. I had actually forgotten about it until another package arrived the other night.
I'm in Traveling Scarf group on Ravelry. The premise is that you start a scarf in some yarn and a stitch pattern of your choice. Then you pass your scarf on to 11 other people to work on, and in the end you get it back. There are examples of works in progress from other groups here and here and here.
It has been a great way to use up bits of yarn I have. I can not throw yarn away, so I have bits and pieces of every type of yarn I've ever bought. It's kind of fun to rifle through my old yarn and pull stuff out.
This is how my scarf started.
I used up my leftover Andean Silk that I made my Candystripe kerchief out of. I picked out a pattern I liked from my Harmony Guides and cast on. I sent it off to someone in Burlington and now I wait for it's return.
In the meantime, I work on everyone else's. I received Vivian's yesterday and picked out a coordinating color, and this is what we have.
The blue is not near as bright as the picture leads you to believe. So I'll finish this up today and send it off to the next person and wait for my next delivery. Getting yarn / knitting in the mail is so much fun - even if it's not for me!
3 comments:
I love getting yarn in the mail, too. This is a little different since you don't get to keep it and part of it is knitted up already.
Still, it's a great way to use of bits of yarn.
What a great idea. It looks like a lot of fun.
What a fun way to do some charity knitting and share at the same time.
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