what to do with chenille yarn
 

I crochet. I am trying to use up my stash of synthetic yarns and then do something super awesome with the wool and cotton yarns that I have. Maybe some checkered throw pillows with the sport weight acrylic yarn, but what do I do with all that chenille that I bought almost 2 years ago when it was $2/skein?

One more question, is it possible to crochet squares without tying off one square, make the second one, and then sew them all together?

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The chenille yarn would make some soft mittens, scarfs or hats.

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Chenille also makes very snuggly throw blankets & afgans.

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Chenille is supposed to make nice facecloths too. All "spa style" like.

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I made some christmas ornament balls out of some chenille yarn.

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re: squares, I found the pattern for a pillow I am thinking of making and it says how to change the colors. I think I may make a couple of tea pot cozies with the cotton yarn that I have left over, and maybe a shawl with the chenille. :) I finished dd's purse. It was so easy and quick to do, maybe 2 hours and it looks really pretty in varigated pastels in Tunisian crochet.

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Did you post pictures somewhere?

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Not yet, after I finish some homework than I'll post them. :)

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:popcorn

I think I'd like to make a throw with yarn like that sometime...

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http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/60671A.html?noImages=

This is what I want to use for the tea cozy, if I can just figure out how to carry unused colors up the wrong side of work.

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Very pretty! Can I ask why you don't just cut and weave in when you change colors? :think

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:bag The pattern said not to. :duck Though I don't enjoy having to tie in all those ends, it uses 6 different colors, 33 rows for the front and 33 for the back.

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That's interesting...see I read that tying off was not the "proper" way to do it, and that weaving in was always preferred because it doesn't leave lumps and bumps like tying off does. I'm surprised the pattern suggested otherwise. That would be a LOT of tying off!! No need for a :bag around me :no I wouldn't do it either :no :giggle

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Weaving in and tying off the ends aren't one and the same thing? Please explain...

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Right, lol. Sorry if I didn't make sense :blush IIRC, the way I learned that the "proper way" to change yarn is to cut it and weave in the ends. The other way that some do it is to cut and tie off rather than weaving in. Make sense?