#scrapalong2025

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Yesterday's progress on my scrappy yarn cozies! For the first one I just picked colors without much thought, on the second one I'm trying helical knitting so I don't have all the ends to weave in.

[jamiemccanless]

Scrap Along 2025

So, I had this idea…

Scrap Along 2025 begins on Valentines Day and ends on the Ides of March (15 March). Start earlier or finish later, but make something with leftover yarn. You don’t have enough scraps for an entire project? Include what you do have!

Believe me, I’m all for buying new yarn, especially from indie dyers and welcoming yarn shops. Lots of it! Sometimes I just can’t. And besides, if I liked the yarn the first time I used it, I want to use every last inch and centimeter.

Please share what you make and the making of it with the tag #ScrapAlong2025. Tag the dyer who created it, the LYS where you bought it, the loved one who gave it to you.

Why? To put it mildly, we’re living in uncertain times that will likely get worse before they get better. For now, we piece together our lives as best we can. Many have been doing that all along. Like piecing together leftover yarn into something gorgeous, one of a kind, memorable. Like you.

All of the 2SLGBTQIA+ letters, the colors, the genders, the love, the ages. All of the yarn.

Be scrappy.

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Crochet Embroidery Felting Knitting Macrame Nalbinding Needlepoint Tatting Weaving

What have I left out?

[leeksgf]

grief/scrap blanket

knitting this scrap yarn lap blanket while i heal from a breakup with the person i thought i’d marry 💔

practicing different stitches while i go — not worrying about making anything perfect!

[cottonkhaleesi]

Some shots of the Eternal WIP (the second) and some length matching of all the 4-ply bits. To summarise the picture below, from left to right we have leftovers from projects such as: the Big Knit hats, socks, the Penrose blanket (half of the ends that have been eliminated so far) and the recent hyperfixation: card weaving.

Here’s hoping I will add these all into the rug before the end of ScrapAlong2025

[jamiemccanless]

Scrap Along 2025

Welcome to the first day of Scrap Along 2025! 🥳

It’s an opportunity for yarn crafters of all kinds—crochet, embroidery, felting, knitting, latch hook, macrame, nalbinding, needlepoint, tatting, weaving, and any I missed—to create with leftover yarn and share their scrappy gorgeousness online.

Tag your posts with #ScrapAlong2025. If you can, tag the dyer and/or LYS that sold it. Please use alt tags on your images.

In conclusion… “These are little scraps of magic & when you paste them together you get a memory of something fine & strong, she said. Sometimes it takes till you’re 40 to see it though.” – Brian Andreas

[jamiemccanless]

Scrap Along 2025

Hello. Scrap Along 2025 begins later this week on Friday, February 14, and runs 30 days through the Ides of March (March 15). Just make something from leftover yarn and post it on social media with the tag #ScrapAlong2025

The idea for this grew out of comments left back and forth with Hidden Pond Yarns when I posted about being inspired by knitters to make a scrappy Musselburgh hat. Katya in turn is inspired to try scrappy knitting herself, and it reminded me of how much of my life is the result of other people's participation.

Right now, of course, a lot of people have the urgent, immediate need to piece their lives back together from what's left of family, friends, jobs, home, food, healthcare, their very identities. It makes the idea of a spontaneous project that's one of a kind and absolutely gorgeous as much an act of defiance as it is community and creativity.

If you use yarn to crochet, embroider, felt (I made a list) knit, latch hook, macrame, nalbind, needlepoint, tat, weave, and any other yarn craft I left out, you can scrap along.

Post your results and progress with the tag #ScrapAlong2025. Tag the dyer if you can, and the yarn shop where you made the purchase. They should know we're using their yarn. Add alt tags to your photos. It's important for accessibility and searching.

But most of all, have a great time.

Thanks.

[brarb-does-stuff]

Yarn cozies complete! (Pattern here)

I started an amigurumi dragon afterwards - found the pattern on Ravelry and thought it was super cute (pattern here)

And in between, I made a spontaneous pride flag inspired mini owl from the big box of acrylic scraps (it might get some wings later if I can figure out a good shape for them)

[jamiemccanless]

Musselburgh Hat

Close up of my first pass at knitting Trans Pride stripes into the scrappy Musselburgh hat I’m making for Scrap Along 2025. I can do better. The Trans Pride stripes are a touch less than half an inch wide. Maybe it should be an inch. End of round is a bit wonky. Color changes are too tight, the blue is slightly lighter weight. I have an anonymous blue that would work. Not interested in jogless stripes. Time to tink!

[jamiemccanless]

Scrap Along 2025

Knitting another 3.75 in / 9.5 cm of stockinette has brought me to the exact halfway point of my scrappy Musselburgh hat. 🥳 Only 21,630 stitches left to go!

[jamiemccanless]

Musselburgh Hat

Close to finishing my scrappy Musselburgh hat for Scrap Along 2025. Trans Pride stripes turned out much better the second time. I've started crown decreases for the second end, but first I have a few yarn ends to weave in. 😉 Good thing I actually almost enjoy it.

[jamiemccanless]

Scrap Along 2025

Scrap Along 2025 is well underway! It runs through March 15, so you have plenty of time to participate. 😉

I’m truly delighted to see posts of scrappy crochet, knitting, tatting, and weaving projects tagged with #ScrapAlong2025

My own scrappy Musselburgh Hat is coming along nicely. I finished the crown increases today, so now I have acres of stockinette ahead.

Starting from the top, I've used:

2 Guys Yarn Company Tweedy Toes

Woolen Boon mini-skeins

LangY arns Jawoll

Knit Picks Essential

2 Guys Yarn Company Tweedy Toes (again)

ONline Supersocke 100 Emotion IV

Malabrigo Yarn Sock

Back to my scrappy project!

[jamiemccanless]

Scrap Along 2025

An early morning chat with Katia of Hidden Pond Yarns inspired me to propose… Scrap Along 2025

From Valentines Day through the Ides of March, knit, crochet, felt, weave, or otherwise make your favorite or new thing from leftover yarn!

Many (most?) of us will be piecing together what's left of our lives. Attempts to erase any of us affect all of us. I am determined to stay visible and support my 2SLGBTQ+ kith and kin. I am a Rebellious Knitter.

If I can't buy my favorite yarn, I'll use what I have left. I'm knitting my third pair of scrappy pirate socks in 2025. For the Scrap Along, I plan to knit a scrappy Musselburgh hat.

[jamiemccanless]

Musselburgh Hat

The latest rounds of my scrappy Musselburgh hat will probably be covered by the folded brim. So, after knitting a couple more inches I plan to add trans pride stripes. This pink and blue yarn is more saturated than actual trans pride colors, but they’re what I have and I think they will work.

[jamiemccanless]

Musselburgh Hat

Today I started my scrappy Musselburgh Hat for Scrap Along 2025! On me, hats are uncomfortable when they inc/dec in a straight line, so that meant tinkering to increase along a curve. This center bit is Tweedy Toes from 2 Guys Yarn Company in Guac. I like everything about it! I bought the yarn in 2016 at the Madison Knitters' Guild Knit-In. Stripes come next.

My intended layout is roughly equal stripes of purples at one end, greens at the other, browns in the middle, and alternating lighter stripes from the mini skeins along the left of the second photo. I won't mind if that doesn't go exactly to plan.

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Scrap Along preparations

Scrap Along 2025, organized by @jamiemccanless, is starting tomorrow! So I went through my stash and dug out the little bits and bobs that aren't really enough for a full project to see what I could work with:

I found

- about 160g of mostly acrylic/polyester sock-ish weight yarn of unknown origin

- about 30g of handspun Corriedale and BFL left over from recent projects (fibers from das-wollschaf.de and @littlebirdinagarden)

- a bag of mixed yarn ends that I could potentially card into spinnable fiber

Not pictured is the big box of acrylic yarn leftovers that are slowly being turned into at least one blanket; I might work on that during ScrapAlong as well. Otherwise, I am definitely planning to knit two more yarn cozies - and I'll see where the yarn takes me after that.

[jamiemccanless]

Scrap Along 2025

The scrappy Musselburgh Hat I'm knitting* for Scrap Along 2025 looks so good! This is the completed near end of the hat, so the folded brim for the far end is next, followed by the near brim, and the far end. The far end and brim will be blues and purples, so basically cool colors for the entire hat.

Remember, any yarn craft is fair game, not just knitting! Crochet, embroidery, felting, knitting, latch hook, macrame, nalbinding, needlepoint, tatting, weaving, and any I missed.