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Candystripe Slouch Hat

Easy striped slouchy beanie for transitional weather with stripes of different colors and textures. Designed for 5 colors, it's great for scrap or stash yarn. Designed by Felicia Lo. Worsted weight yarn.

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Fenangle the Angles Blanket Scarf

Oversized scarf knit in colorful triangles of garter stitch shaped with short rows. Looks like a great stashbuster though it was designed for 3 colorways of Caron O'Go. Bulky weight yarn. Designed by Yarnspirations Design Studio.

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Bifrost Scarf

This simple bias garter stitch scarf is named for the shimmering rainbow bridge connecting heaven and earth in Norse mythology. Designed to be worked from dozens of short lengths of yarn, it's great for scrap or stash yarn. Designed by Cate Carter-Evans. DK weight yarn.

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Pic N Mix Cowl

This cowl is perfect for scrap or leftover yarn! Knit in a 12 stitch 22 row repeat of a geometric stranded design. Example is knit with 15 miniballs. This cowl is knitted in the round as a tube and the ends seamed or grafted. Designed by Clare Hutchinson for Knitty.

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Easy Fair Isle Hat

Beanie knit with 5 different colors and a stranded arrow design, this hat is perfect for mini skein sets like the recommended yarn or stash yarn. Rated easy by the designer and Ravelrers. Designed by Caron. Bulky weight yarn. Pictured projects by the designer and sirianv.

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Glitch Hat

Great for stash sock yarn, this colorful hat is knit by randomizing traditional stranded colorwork and marling using 4 different colorways of variegated fingering yarn. Uses just 30g/100m of each of the four colors. Rated easy by Ravelrers. Designed by Beata Jezek for Hedgehog Fibres

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Remnants Shrug

This shrug is knit as a flat rectangle and then seamed to form sleeves and lace edging is added on sleeves and collar. Use leftover stash and scrap fingering yarn in stripes to get the multicolor look in the picture. Designed by Andre Sue

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Skein Hash Cowl

Infinity scarf designed to be knit with leftover stash and scrap yarn. Knit flat in a garter stitch chevron on the bias. Designed for fingering weight yarn but adaptable to other weights. Designed by Sybil R

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Log Cabin Mitts

Fingerless mitts knit in modular log cabin style. The pattern is written for three colors and it’s a great way to use up leftover yarn since it only uses 110 yards total. Designed by Karen Templer.

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Gander Socks

A very simple stranded sock pattern of triangles, ideal to use up leftovers. Designed by General Hogbuffer.

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All That Jazz Cowl

This stranded and fair isle cowl was designed for up to 16 colors of DK yarn but can be adapted to any number as few as 4 or 5 so it’s perfect for scrap or stash yarn. Designed by TheTwistedYarn. Pictured project at top is by NaugyKnits who used 13 colors.

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Corrugated Pillbox Hat

A pillbox had with multi-colored vertical stripes in corrugated ribbing and a latvian braid at the crown. The designer made this hat with scraps of Noro Kureyon, but you can use also use just two different colorways. Designed by Ellen Rodgers

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Create your own ball of yarn by knotting leftover bits of sock yarn for this cowl. This infinity cowl is knit in a tube so all the knots and stray ends are hidden in the tube’s interior. Designed by Jana Pihota of Hipknitzer

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Le Quebrada Socks

A simple stranded pattern for colorful striped socks. 2 sizes. Perfect for stash or scrap yarn. Designed by Dela Hausmann. Note that the pattern has been officially discontinued but the link to the pdf is still live at this writing.

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DaPunzel Neckwarmer

Triangle shaped scarf with braided edge and stripes that are perfect to use up scrap yarn. Fingering yarn. Designed by Finja Hansen. Available in German and English, but the English is not always clear, so you might want to check the project notes of other knitters and the video she mentions.

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African Adventure Bag

Purse using the modular shells and slipstitch-bands designed by Horst Schulz for his African Adventure Afghan. Designed by Phazelia. Available in English, German, and Norwegian.

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Mini Mania Scarf

Colorful scarf knit with mini skeins of sock weight yarn in linen stitch to get a woven effect. Perfect for your leftover scraps of yarn.4 sizes. Designed by Sarah Core

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Popper’s Hat

This colorful beanie with geometric stranded design was inspired by the hat the designer’s father wore everywhere. Knit in 5 colors of fingering yarn with 4 colors using 30 yds 28 m each, and the main color using 120 yds 110 m, it’s perfect for using up scrap and stash yarn. Designed by Kalliopi Aronis

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Ingy’s Handwarmers

Fingerless mitts that are knit flat with your scrap fingering yarn held doubled to let you experiment with creative color and fiber combinations. Designed by Ingrid Mutsaerts. Sizes Small, Medium, Large

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Werewolf of Westport Hat

This colorful beanie features garter stitch, stripes, short rows wedges and modular construction. It uses 5 colors of worsted yarn ranging in amounts from 10 meters to 42 meters so it’s perfect for scrap yarn and stash busting. Designed by Les Tricoteurs Volants. Pictured project by JulieKnitsInParis

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Scrap Happy Hat

Colorful earflap hat perfect for scrap yarn. Knit 2 strands of worsted weight yarn doubled throughout the project. Designed by Susan B. Anderson. Rated easy by Ravelrers

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Scrap Mittens

These colorful mittens are knit in a stranded pattern that use between 2-12 colors, with some colors only requiring 4-6 yards of yarn so this a perfect project for scrap or stash yarn. Designed by AbbyeKnits. Pictured projects by the designer, canarytree, and maprice

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Aztec Socks

Colorful socks knit in worsted weight yarn 3 sizes S, M, L. Knit with 6 or more colors, it’s perfect for stash or scrap yarn. Designed by Abbyeknits

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• Get the recommended Cascade Yarns® Highland Duo at Amazon

Slip Stitch Stash Hat

Designed by Renee Rico, this hat is a great stashbuster and introduction to color work since you only use only one color per row and use slip stitches for the color pattern. Sizes for toddler to adult.

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Attention Span Hat

This colorful earflap hat by Mimi Kezer is a great sampler of knitting techniques. Pattern includes a pinhole cast-on, a bit of Entrelac, a lateral braid or two, some stranded colorwork, tassels and a pom-pom, German short rows, and a little stockinette stitch.

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Patterns for Purchase

Variegata Shawl

An asymmetrical triangular shawl using 12 colors so it's a great stash buster. A surprisingly simple shawl - all the colorwork is done using slipped stitches, so only one color is used at once. Fingering weight yarn. Designed by hardybarndesigns.

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Misha Cowl

Easy garter stitch cowl designed for leftover yarn so it's a great stash buster. Worsted or Bulky weight yarn. Designed by Grace Rose.

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Whitman Sampler Cowl

Infinity scarf cowl knit in garter stitch on the bias. Designed for 4 to 8 colors, this is a great use for scrap or stash yarn. Designed by Nancy Whitman.

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Scrap Cowl

Designed for leftover yarn, this slipped stitch jaquard stitch is much easier than it looks. Knit in stripes of the same color for 5 rows but the slipped stitches make it look like more complex colorwork. Size is easily customized. Designed by Irina Eberhardt. Worsted weight yarn.

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Greenwich Cowl

Buttoned neckwarmer with fringe. Great for stash and leftover yarn. Designed by AuntJanetsDesigns

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Stashbuster Slouch

Textured loose-fitting slouch hat or beanie using scraps of different colored worsted yarn. Sizes toddler to adult. Designed by Rian Anderson

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Easy Dunkelbunt Cowl

This colorful cowl is worked flat in mosaic / slip stitch colorwork. A great way to use up leftover yarn in your stash!

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Cheery Scrap Cap

Sizes from Adult to Newborn. Two designs are included for this earflap hat – one featuring a row of hearts, the other a skull and crossbones.

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• See more Skull Knitting Patterns

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