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Uses for Scrap Yarn

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You can use up all your scrap yarn by crocheting coloful granny squares with it. Get an easy, free basic granny square pattern here!
You can use up all your scrap yarn by crocheting coloful granny squares with it. Get an easy, free basic granny square pattern here!

A few days ago, a friend asked if he could have some of my yarn and embroidery floss. He doesn’t crochet, knit, sew or cross stitch, so I was puzzled by the request.


“What are you going to do with the yarn?” I asked him.

He said, “I’m going to use it to tie flies for fly fishing.”

Turns out that he didn’t need big pieces; he was happy to have a bunch of little pieces of my scrap yarn.

I was more than happy to give the scraps to him. I rarely throw any pieces of yarn away, not even the pieces that are too small to do anything with…so they tend to accumulate in my stash. Yay! I made a fisherman happy, and decluttered a bit at the same time.

More Ways to Use Up Scrap Yarn:

Use up your scrap yarn by making cute little loom-crafted flowers! Haafner Linssen's book, Crochet Loom Blooms, shows you how to do this. Photo courtesy of interweave.
Use up your scrap yarn by making cute little loom-crafted flowers! Haafner Linssen’s book, Crochet Loom Blooms, shows you how to do this. Photo courtesy of Interweave.

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