When my Grandma Joyce passed, my mother and her sister found oodles of yarn, some with projects in the works but most of it matted up together. It was a joke that they should go through all of that yarn, just in case grandma hid the family jewels inside. Then after a while they decided that grandma had hawked the family jewels in order to buy all the yarn.
My mother inherited most of it, and kept it along with all of her own bundles of yarn and unfinished projects. When my mom passed away...well, I was the next in line. One of these days I'll build up the courage to take a picture of my dining room/office/yarn explosion and post it here.
So here is my mission: To find strange and out of the ordinary (at least for me) projects to finish up using all of my hand-me-down yarn so I can go and buy new yarn without feeling guilty about all the piles my husband and kids have to wade through already.
My current project is a afghan made from only Red Heart yarn (I have a bunch of that). I'm using a very simple shell pattern of 1 SC + 1 DC in same stitch, skip next stitch, and repeat all the way across. It's fast and easy and very pretty.
I'm only doing 4 rows at a time, and my goal is to see how many different colors I can use before having to repeat. I'm on my 9th color, and I have at least 4 more that I know of before I have to go digging for more or repeat with my fabulously outrageous red.
