Scrap down- the yarn supply!

Part two of my yarn diet involves a proper effort to use up all the part balls that lurk in my stash, they deserve to be used not ignored! I got a bag and pulled them all out, now my stash looks fairly skinny and the pile to be used looks like this:

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I forgot to put anything in for scale, but that is sitting on two A1 sized boards, and it doesn't include the part balls of sock yarn.
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I have two ways of tackling this, the first is to do a pattern search for small yarn quantities and match the ones I like with yarn from the heap. After that it will be to sort the yarn into weights and find patterns for what is left.
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Lots of mini FOs should start popping up soon, it is a good way to get instant knitting gratification in between the socks!

WIP Wednesday

Having finished up a few WIPs I have started a couple more- a tiny bit of startitis! (or possibly startosis according a medical type person)
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Not too many details, saving those for FO Fridays, but both are part of my efforts to use up part balls and leftovers that are lurking in my stash.
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A cowl made using purple cobweb lace weight held double, it has cables too, which is a bit daft as I said I was going to avoid laceweight and cables for a while!
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An attempt at some amigurumi using up leftover mini mochi. You might be able to guess this one.
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Stash busting- super fast cowl with fantastic buttons

I am still on a stash busting kick, most especially clearing the small quantities- part balls and one or two 50g balls. This cowl is made using the Baby Cable Rib neckwarmer pattern by Kerry Moorhouse using Sirdar hug in a blue/light grey colourway. I added an extra cable repeat to make it a little deeper.
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It was a very fast knit, I made it in the car on the way to and from a Landrover show, probably not more than two hours.
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The colour is somewhere between the two pictures in real life. It is a great pattern and fairly nice yarn- the colour is good and it is quite soft, it is a singles yarn and little underspun in places which can make sewing on buttons tricky, I added a little extra twist before I threaded it onto the needle. The whole thing used less than 50g of yarn.
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The buttons are my favourite thing about this FO, it is meant to be going in the stock gift pile but I may have to keep it just because of the buttons, or I could buy more buttons!
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