At last! The crocheted afghan of massive avoirdupois is finished. I’ve got to block it and mail it. I hope it fits into a large flat rate box, or I’ll be spending a fortune to ship it.
I was accumulating a large pile of bits and pieces of yarn as I wove in ends and snipped them off.
This got me thinking about possible uses for them besides the trash, or maybe stuffing a knitted toy. I certainly wasn’t movtivated to do anything creative with them. Then we had dinner at a friends, and that all changed in one magic moment.
Our friend took out a dust mitt his grandmother made him. He said he doesn’t use it, but he keeps it for a memento, because he really loved her.
I begged for an action photo:
I did a quick search on knitted dust mitt, and it didn’t take long. If anyone seriously is interested, here you are, a free pattern. Personally, my ends and pieces are in the trash.
MLE
I’m so touched by your friend’s keeping the mitt as a memento of his grandmother. I might even make such a mitt myself, hoping it would encourage me to dust a bit more often. However, I usually give my thrums to the birds. Really – I toss them underneath the larger shrubs and bushes in the yards; the birds weave them into their nests for cozy insulation.
What a great idea.
Yay for finishing the afghan! Hope it fit in a flat-rate box…
It did. And I didn’t even block it. He’s 18, what does he know? I election judged for 16 hours yesterday, I’m beat. But happy.
Well done on the Afghan completion! The dust mitt is a brilliant idea, but rather as they say life’s too short to stuff a mushroom …!