Leftovers

I love leftovers. All those small balls of different colored yarns, I love combining them into something new and crazy. I think I am not the first person to consider trying something as insane as a mitered square afghan with sock yarn leftovers. That's what I've got in mind right now.

Years ago, I was a quilter. I've still got lots of fabric and books, and I'd like to get back into it one day, but right now I'm enjoying knitting more. This scrap quilt is one of the last projects I worked on, and one of the first projects I'd like to return to. It's hexagons cut from scraps, some joined with hand-piecing, some with machine piecing. I'd finally mastered set-in seams when I abandoned this project. It was great to take in the car on long rides, I could just work on a few hexagons at a time, then join them up with the larger quilt piece when I got home. And then, somehow, I drifted away from quilting, and back to knitting. Scrap quilts were always my favorite, sort of like all those sock yarn leftovers.