Today we did something absolutely different. Marylane and Carol, a former Spanish teacher in our school district, came up with a plan for the fundraiser, Loud at the Library, which takes place in March. Carol had seen these scarves when she went on a vacation.They are made from lengths of regular and novelty yarns tied together. It sounds odd, but the scarves are really quite fun. They can be wound around your neck, or worn singly.
Linda, Michele, Mary and I joined Marylane and Carol in making them and it turned out to be a lot of fun and something unusual for us to do at knitting. When I arrived, I saw a HUGE number of different yarns on Marylane’s dining table — thick, thin, fuzzy, skinny – name it and there it was. And ribbon! We loved adding ribbon even though it was slippery to knot with the yarn.
All kinds of yarn!
Carol explained what to do – cut 8 foot lengths of yarn and decide which ones would look good together. Knot the strands of yarn in the middle and on both ends. Easy.
Carol showing us how it’s done.
Of course, nothing is as easy as it looks. We had to cut the lengths to a uniform length. Thankfully, we had a second chance to even and trim up the lengths once the scarf was finished. Sometimes we found the perfect yarn, but there wasn’t enough of it. Or, we’d find the yarns and when they were together, the scarf was too skinny, so we had to search for more yarn to add to it. These were all simple problems to solve. The fun was in putting them all together.
Hmmm. Now where was that eyelash yarn in purple?
Linda and Marylane were having fun.
Some of us were more creative than others (not me – I tended toward the monochrome). Once we had a lot of scarves, we decided to display them. Mary, the arm model, complied.
Lots of scarves.
Here’s Mary with one of the last scarves that Carol made.
Looks like Easter! Just wind it around your neck, Mary.
Marylane and I tried to devise some way to store them and get them to the Library without tangling too badly.
It certainly looks like serious work, doesn’t it?
We had a lot of scarves at the end of the day. The Library will decide how to use them at the event. Last year, the Castoffs yarn-bombed a chair. This sure was easier. Of course, there could be something else for us to do before March because it’s such a good cause.
I’d like to wish our Castoffs Carol a happy birthday! She sent me a photo of the legwarmers that she finished for her daughter, Shannon. They turned out so cute.
Hearts climbing Shannon’s legs.
That’s it for now, Castoffs. We meet at Linda’s house next time. Keep those needles blazing and hunker down for our next bit snowstorm. It’s coming!
