Currently there is a trend in yarn of putting together mini skeins in coordinating colours. A mini skein generally has less than 100 yards/91 meters of yarn, which means several must be put together to generate enough yarn to make anything.
I suspect these little skeins came about to use up the scrap yarn manufacturers create as they make hanks of yarn at a set size. It is akin to using up the scrap or garbage cake when decorating cakes which lead to the trend of cake pops. Because the colours are often coordinated, and the amount is small, making them inexpensive, knitters have been snatching them up.
Susan gave me a set of mini skeins she was gifted because she was perplexed with what to do with them. Her set of six in fingering weight was from Space Cadet. Here's a few that are left.
As you can see these minis are variegated which from my POV makes them trickier to use. Minis have been used to create blankets, baby stuff, fades of all sorts and most popularly they are used to do colourwork. So they have a purpose, if you get the right type of combinations. I have been thinking about trying to use them in a memory blanket comprised of mitered squares. It is great for minis as well as using up leftover yarn, thus the moniker memory blanket, you can think of all the things you made which created the leftovers. But this project would require much more than the six skeins I had and it would be a long-term commitment to make all those squares. In general I am not that type of knitter.
After I finished my earthy toned Summer Shawl I started digging into the Minneapolis stash and found the minis and some leftover DK weight fades of gray in Knit Picks Palette yarn. There was a barely gray, a light gray and a charcoal, all remainders of projects past. When I paired those three grays with two minis, I found my light gray matched nearly perfectly to the light gray in one of the variegated minis. So I selected the two minis containing coordinating colours and set to knitting.
The inspiration was something like the colour selection in Find Your Fade. Summer Shawl was the base shape and colours were knit until they ran out. This is what I achieved.
The barely gray started the fade, followed by the light gray and variegated gray, pink and yellow mini knit in stripes. Then came the charcoal and that same variegated mini also knit in stripes. The bright pink came next and then stripes of it with the charcoal ending with the medium gray. The crocheted edging was done in charcoal because all the other colours had been used up. I am pleased with the results and perhaps I am finally getting to some skill in colour coordination.
This is a mini shawl (44"/112 cm long and 10"/25 cm deep) containing one of Miss M's favorite colours - bold, bright pink. She more than likely will never use this as a shawl, she is only three, but perhaps as a scarf. On the other hand, if I tell her it is a cape that will make her Wonder Girl, she might just play with it.
So there it is, mini X two! Mini skeins - Mini shawl
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| Image from Madeline Tosh showing many minis |
Susan gave me a set of mini skeins she was gifted because she was perplexed with what to do with them. Her set of six in fingering weight was from Space Cadet. Here's a few that are left.
As you can see these minis are variegated which from my POV makes them trickier to use. Minis have been used to create blankets, baby stuff, fades of all sorts and most popularly they are used to do colourwork. So they have a purpose, if you get the right type of combinations. I have been thinking about trying to use them in a memory blanket comprised of mitered squares. It is great for minis as well as using up leftover yarn, thus the moniker memory blanket, you can think of all the things you made which created the leftovers. But this project would require much more than the six skeins I had and it would be a long-term commitment to make all those squares. In general I am not that type of knitter.
After I finished my earthy toned Summer Shawl I started digging into the Minneapolis stash and found the minis and some leftover DK weight fades of gray in Knit Picks Palette yarn. There was a barely gray, a light gray and a charcoal, all remainders of projects past. When I paired those three grays with two minis, I found my light gray matched nearly perfectly to the light gray in one of the variegated minis. So I selected the two minis containing coordinating colours and set to knitting.
The inspiration was something like the colour selection in Find Your Fade. Summer Shawl was the base shape and colours were knit until they ran out. This is what I achieved.
The barely gray started the fade, followed by the light gray and variegated gray, pink and yellow mini knit in stripes. Then came the charcoal and that same variegated mini also knit in stripes. The bright pink came next and then stripes of it with the charcoal ending with the medium gray. The crocheted edging was done in charcoal because all the other colours had been used up. I am pleased with the results and perhaps I am finally getting to some skill in colour coordination.
This is a mini shawl (44"/112 cm long and 10"/25 cm deep) containing one of Miss M's favorite colours - bold, bright pink. She more than likely will never use this as a shawl, she is only three, but perhaps as a scarf. On the other hand, if I tell her it is a cape that will make her Wonder Girl, she might just play with it.
So there it is, mini X two! Mini skeins - Mini shawl
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