I have been kind of obsessed with knitting for the last year…I’ve slowly been collecting all the accessories and doodads that come with the territory, and have found that I love using circular knitting needles. But storing them has become a huge pain in my @ss. See the problem…
To find the right needles, I have to empty out the whole pouch because it’s inevitably become a huge rats nest tangle. I’ve seen wall hangings where people store their circs, but that is just too much visual chaos for me to want to put up in my craft room.
Enter jean scraps to the chat.
I had to take a break from my latest knitting project to give my hands a rest. So I poked around in my craft room and remembered the pile of jean scraps and cutoffs I’ve been keeping for…whatever. I’ve long admired all the beautiful piecing and quilting projects happening over on the Quiltalong, so I thought why not use my scraps to play around with that. I am not a sewing wizard but any stretch of imagination, but I was excited to just play, and wouldn’t feel bad if it ended up crappy because these were scraps anyway.
Here’s some blocks I played around with - didn’t actually end up in the final piece, but they’re waiting for something to come along…
Anyway, here it is! My not-quilted quilted wall hanging? My pieced hanging?
I learned how to do 8-at-a-time hst squares, and had fun playing around with all the possible patterns, until I settled on this one. The top and bottom borders are scraps of the scraps that I bashed together in a wonky stripe pattern so I could get some more length.
I did actually sew 2 loops in the back for hanging, but don’t have a 2nd command strip hanger at the moment to hang it as I’m envisioning, so the clothes hanger is a temporary stand-in, though honestly, it could just be the mechanism for hanging as it works just as well.
And here’s a peek at the inside, all the chaos hidden neatly away.
More details on the inside flap: Hello, my name is chaos.
I wouldn’t have picked these fabrics to go together if I was in a store, but I was working with what I had. And I have a lot of this canvasy type fabric. But I think it works ok considering denim fabric reads almost neutral to me in most cases.
There is a vertical strip with sewn sections so I can easily slip my circular needles through and hang. Then I made the bottom pocket with dividers because i have 1 set of interchangeable needles, and the plastic holder that it came in is very close to falling apart, so I needed to have somewhere new to store that.
I’m excited that I came up with this solution and it busts stash, and uses up some of my jean scraps into a pretty nifty item I’m happy to hang up.
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