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   Chicken :cqlgusu: (lookitmychicken@blorbo.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 13:33:39 JST Chicken :cqlgusu:

   • Léto le Gaosaure

   @LeGaosaure I like turning scraps into mitred square blankets like this one (made of fingering-weight scraps).

   I normally pick up and knit each square, so there's no sewing squares together.

   There's a fair bit of sewing in ends, but I tend to knit 10 or 20 squares, then sew in the ends, then knit more squares. So there's no marathon of sewing in ends after all the knitting is done

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     Léto le Gaosaure (legaosaure@blorbo.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 17:51:53 JST Léto le Gaosaure

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     @lookitmychicken This looks nice... I've honestly been flip-flopping about going the "make squares, blanket will happen at some point" route because I feel that I don't have any use for a blanket (not even a spot to just showcase it) but you're tempting me x')

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     Chicken :cqlgusu: (lookitmychicken@blorbo.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 19:07:01 JST Chicken :cqlgusu:

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     • Léto le Gaosaure

     @LeGaosaure I like to make blankets as gifts, too, but you have to be careful if some of the yarns aren't machine-washable. Cos gift recipients can *say* they're going to only wash the blanket in the woollens cycle, and then someone forgets, and then whoops! shrunken felted blanket.

     If you don't have a use for a blanket, are there other sorts of soft furnishings that you like? Cushions? bags? xmas stockings?

     sometimes I knit weird little mats because I have a particular thing (e.g. a plant or a decor item) that I want to have a special and weird little mat for.

     sometimes the things I knit are not good, and I just frog them and use the yarn for something else.

     if some of your yarn scraps are absorbent cotton, you can knit dishcloths and hand towels and face washers.

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     Léto le Gaosaure (legaosaure@blorbo.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 19:27:17 JST Léto le Gaosaure

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     @lookitmychicken I have no clue, and I do mean *no damn clue* what my yarns are x') I basically have three stashes right now:
     - cotton for amigurumi
     - leftovers from the two blankets I gifted (I still have the tags so I could look what it is)
     - MAJOR. CHAOS. aka stuff I got from my mother who herself probably got half of these from who knows where, and I have a tag for maybe two skeins out of like, 50 different bits of diverse sizes and lengths x')

     So yeah, that does make things tricky ='D

     Not helping is the fact that I never had my own space to decorate and I'm now living with an ultra minimalist who could probably fit all his belongings in a suitcase if his parents stopped gifting him furniture, so I already feel guilty for owning like 80% of the volume we have to move when we change flat and so I don't feel comfortable trying to learn how to decorate when I know it'll just be useless clutter to him... ^^"""

     I guess I could try to make cushion covers though. Not that we own cushions, but I suppose it could happen in the future =')

     Thank you for taking the time to type all this, though ♥ It's genuinely appreciated and I'll try to remember it if I ever get the occasion to use your advice!