One Fish, Two Fish...

Hello, my name is Kati and I'm addicted to Sock Yarn.  Anyone who's seen my stash knows this to be true.  I can't help it.  It's pretty and squishy and there are so many things one can make with just one skein of it.  It's just so irresistible.

The problem?  I keep ending up with 3-5 grams left over from projects - not enough to make anything else, but too much to justify throwing it away.  So, I began my very own scrap project.  Sewers will be familiar with this concept (they're called quilts).  Even paper crafters know they have that one set of notecards that has cool shapes made of leftovers.

Thanks to Ravelry, I found this excellent pattern called a Recipe for Fish.  For those that are interested, I'm using size 4 needles.  For everyone else, what you need to know is each fish measures about 2.5" x 4.5".  After doing some Math (yay Math!), I figured that for a roughly queen sized afghan, I need 800 fish (they will be laid out 20 x 40 fish).  Yeah, that's a lot of fish.

Know what else?  That's a lot of scraps.  I want each fish to be unique, but even with my extensive collection of sock yarn, I don't have enough for 800 different fish.  So, I'm madly trading scraps with other yarnies.  I've even gone so far as to purchase mini skeins from indy dyers.

Here's the ultimate goal: make 1 fish a day (that's about 2.2 years of fish making) and then give myself 6 months to lay out the fish in the order/pattern I want them and seam them together.  To try and keep my spirits up, I'll be posting periodic updates on my progress.

Today, I have reached 100 fish!