Well-aged yarn

Does this sound familiar to you? I’m currently crocheting with some yarn I bought in the summer of 2015.

I took that yarn with me on vacation in September 2015 and used it to crochet some granny squares. We spent our vacation in America, and I had a great view while I was crocheting.



We had rented a wooden house on high stilts in Black Forrest. The house had three stories, each with its own balcony.



And this is what my view looked like when I was crocheting. 



Of course, I didn’t finish the blanket during that vacation. But I did manage to complete a lot of granny squares.



In June 2017 (yes, you read that right—two years later), I finally finished the blanket.



And now I’m using up the leftover yarn to make a new blanket. I can still crochet with about 150 grams; then there’ll be room in my leftover-yarn box for new yarn again.



Do you have any craft projects that remind you of a past vacation? A special place because it was so beautiful there?

I love aged yarn—I have a whole box full of it myself :-)

I even still have some yarn from the 1980s down in my basement… Back then, it became fashionable to produce novelty yarns… There was some awful stuff, but of course there were some good ideas mixed in too… As long as you don’t get moths in the yarn, and it’s stored nicely in boxes and doesn’t fade, it’s still wonderful to use now, 30 years later.

I also found some old school yarn from the ’70s. I don’t really like crocheting with old yarn like that—it feels weird. But it’s still good for doll hair.