{"id":3046,"date":"2010-05-19T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2010-06-17T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T19:53:11","slug":"box-of-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/box-of-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"box of bits"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my crazy habits<\/del> idiosyncracies is that I hate to throw anything away. As a result, I have a box full of rejected crochet pieces: the prototypes that didn’t work out; the spare pieces I made to take photographs for patterns. The box is now full to overflowing (and has been for a long time!), and I’ve sometimes wondered if I’m being stupid by keeping these useless pieces.<\/p>\n

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But, are they really useless? No, they are not! Allow me to present the case as to why I am actually very smart<\/em> for keeping all these random bits:<\/p>\n

Exhibit 1: Photo Props.<\/strong> When I needed to take a photo for my stitch markers<\/a>, I just delved into the box to find some photogenic pieces to clip the markers to for my photo:<\/p>\n

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\nThe pieces in this photo are actually (clockwise from top left): a rejected flower design from my African Violet<\/a> pattern; a snout from a prototype pig that never made the cut; and a spare section of shell from my Sea Turtle<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n

Exhibit 2: Experimental Pieces.<\/strong> When I wanted to try out yarn brushing with non-wool yarns<\/a>, I delved into the box to find some pieces I could test it on:<\/p>\n

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\nCotton and acrylic samples – perfect!<\/em><\/p>\n

Exhibit 3: Emergency Yarn.<\/strong> I can’t believe this has happened to me twice now: a couple of weeks ago, I ran out of black yarn with one round to go on the final leg of my Farmyard Pigs<\/a>, and yesterday I ran out of white yarn with one round to go on another new design..! The black yarn was old and a new skein probably wouldn’t have matched, and the white yarn was out of stock when I went to buy a new skein… What’s a girl to do?! <\/p>\n

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Luckily, in both cases, after a momentary panic, I thought to search through the magic box for any pieces made from those same yarns. And there I found a rejected Boston Terrier<\/a> ear that was made from the right black yarn, and a partial Beagle<\/a> body that contained the right white yarn – a minute of frogging and I had salvaged more than enough yarn to finish both my amigurumi \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The defence rests – one more crazy<\/del> perfectly sensible habit justified! The box of bits is staying in my craft room – I wonder what it’ll come in handy for next time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my crazy habits idiosyncracies is that I hate to throw anything away. As a result, I have a box full of rejected crochet pieces: the prototypes that didn’t work out; the spare pieces I made to take photographs for patterns. The box is now full to overflowing (and has been for a long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}