You know I’m all about finding and sharing patterns that help you use your yarn leftovers. Here’s a sweet little shawl that’s meant to be made with the leftovers from a couple of other projects, as it calls for about half a skein each of two colors of sport weight yarn.
The Garter Smidgen by Fatimah Hinds was designed to be a relaxing knit that’s perfect for using up some leftover yarn. It needs 360 to 400 yards total (or about 329 to 366 meters) and measures 64 inches (162.5 cm) long and 17 inches/43 cm at its widest point. The crescent shape is worked in one piece, with wedges of garter and stockinette stitch broken up by eyelets.
It’s designed to use the amount of yarn you have, whether that’s two partial skeins, some minis or several smaller leftovers (since you can easily make more stripes, or wider stripes, as you like depending on the yarn you have available).
It’s a pretty quick and easy project worked in sport weight yarn, though of course you could use sock, DK or even worsted weight yarn, depending on the nature of your leftovers.
The pattern is available on Ravelry. This is actually the second shawl in the “smidgen” series. Fatimah also has a super cute little sock weight, single-color shawl worked in linen stitch that’s designed to use a single special skein, though here again if you’ve got a smaller skein and some leftovers or mini skeins you could throw in some stripes to make it bigger. (That pattern is also on Ravelry.)
Speaking of mini skeins, if you need even more ideas of what to do with your special little skeins (or lots of yarn leftovers), check out my roundup of mini skein/advent calendar knitting projects. These projects are sure to inspire you to bust your stash in a beautiful way.
[Photo: Fatimah Hinds]
