I am on a journey to more actively use the yarn in my stash instead of collecting and hoarding them with no clue or plan of how to use it up. I decided to see if I could find a pattern that could use up a large amount of yellow yarn (Sugarbush Canoe Sunset), along with some beautiful grayish-purple handspun yarn (with subtle sparkles!) gifted to me. I didn’t have enough of either to make a whole sweater or top, but together with maybe some accent colors something could work out…I found the Mondrian Pullover pattern by Two of Wands, and it seemed to be perfect. Definitely a bit out of my normal style of dress but there was something that kept me going back to the pattern to consider it.
I definitely would not have paired the 4 colors (ALL FROM STASH!) if I had free rein in a yarn shop, but weirdly it really started to grow on me, and now I feel like they work together. I tried to follow the proportions of colorblock laid out in the pattern, but didn’t have enough brown yarn (I think it was Lion’s Brand Wool Ease Umber) so had to extend the reddish portion (Knitpicks Red Barn Door tweed, worsted and fingering weight held together) to make the arms long enough. Of course, they grew after blocking so they’re a bit longer than I’d care for but definitely better than too short.
Thankfully the body blocked out longer too as I originally knit it a bit short, but am happy where it landed. Also, I must admit that this is the knit that taught me not to ignore the instructions to size down a needle when doing collar and cuffs…it really does make a difference
And here is all that’s left. It’s definitely not nothing, but so much less than I started out with. Mission accomplished, and I’m wearing my sweater to work tomorrow!
Thanks everyone! Mentally I was very ready to break down and buy more yarn to get this finished (wasn’t sold on this color combo at first) but I’m thrilled I didn’t.
Thanks everyone! I will have to think of plans for the leftovers later. I have my eye on a couple of shawl patterns now to use up some lonely skeins of fingering.
The LC groundhog says…this project rocks! 
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