Scraps

Often when I finish a cap, there's just enough yarn left for something...but what? Not another cap, but maybe the finishing edge, perhaps a bow or flower or other decoration, there are options. When I have a bit leftover, I roll it into a small ball and add it to a box of leftovers. I sometimes look through and make a few decorative items or see if one of them match some yarn I have to use as a single row. They give me a little motivation to start something. What I hadn't ever done is use them together and that seemed like a fun idea, so I started with one of the scrap colors and just tied on a new one as each one ended and came up with this scrap cap. It's a fun, festive cap I hope someone will fall in love with.
On a side notes, my cats always enjoy helping me make caps. Sometimes they will bat at the yarn, sometimes they bring yarn downstairs for me to use and sometimes...

Cat help

This past week was extremely busy, getting ready for Relay for Life on May 3-4 and then I was trying to catch up on sleep afterwards! However, I have made a few caps I just haven't gotten anything posted. The fun "Blacklight" yarn I picked up and mentioned in my last post had a pattern on the label that I tried out using that yarn. Then, I used the idea from the pattern and edited it to make another similar cap.

Most recently, I used the yarn my cats brought downstairs to make a fuzzy cap. My cats, quite regularly feel the need to pick my yarn for me by going through the stash upstairs and dragging one downstairs and leaving it at my door. I can't always keep up with them but I thought it was a good idea to use one they brought me, so they got their wish today.