Use Your Favorite Single Skeins to Knit a Fun Wrap

I don’t know about you, but I have a lot of single skeins in my yarn stash. If you go to fiber festivals, or even shopping at your local yarn store when you don’t have a particular project in mind, it’s pretty common to just pick up one of something with the idea that you’ll figure out what to do with it later.

Knitting and So on has a great pattern for an Autumn Vermicelli Wrap made with two 100-gram skeins of yarn that will help you a bit with the one-skein problem. She used one bold hand-painted yarn along with a more subdued semisolid, but you could use any two yarns that you like together for this project.

Worked on the bias, it includes textured stripes of Garter Stitch in the handpainted yarn and a lace pattern in the semisolid. It’s a really pretty effect and a project that’s great for wrapping up in through the fall.

What do you like to make with single skeins of yarn? I’d love to hear your ideas!

[Photo via Knitting and So on.]

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Many times when I write these posts I will say something like “you can use any yarn you want” or “this would be a great stash-busting project.” That’s just how my mind works. And my stash, too, since I probably have sweater quantity of two or three yarns at most, but tons of singles and odd balls and leftovers.

Blankets are generally a really good way to use up those bits, but in this case, I think you’re going to want to plan it out a bit better.

Looking at photos of the Color Study Blanket from Purl Soho, it looks like it’s made with two yarns held together, and that block in the center is worked with one of each color from the adjoining sides to make a mixed up color.

But that’s not actually how it’s done. This is three separate colors (four, really, with the neutrals in the corners) chosen form a yarn with an expansive palette so they play off each other. The project calls for a worsted weight superwash wool, which is a great choice for a blanket that’s both warm and washable.

This pattern was originally designed by Laura Ferguson and was updated by Hiromi Glover. It is worked in one piece in garter stitch intarsia, which is a great way to learn the intarsia technique if you don’t already know it. It comes in crib or throw sizes.

Despite the introduction to this post, I am going to go ahead and say that, yes, of course you could do this blanket with scraps or odd balls or even just choose five colors that don’t blend together so easily. But I really do love the look of the color play, and I think it would be worth your time to find colors that play well together to get a similar effect.

This pattern is available for free from Purl Soho.

[Photo: Purl Soho]

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