How is your leftover yarn doing?

Dear users, dear authors,
how is your leftover yarn doing? Do you have a lot of it? Are you making something pretty out of it?
In February, we’ll be running the “Reste-Beste werden” project again, where everyone who uses up a lot of leftover yarn will be recognized.
Tell me about your leftover yarn. Feel free to upload photos, as long as they’re your own.

Actually, I work almost exclusively with leftover yarn, but somehow there’s always more and more of it! Sometimes I’m missing a specific color for a project, or I see a new type of yarn I want to try out (just 1–2 skeins, of course!) and so on...

At our house, the leftover yarn is for the dog. We’re currently making dog toys out of it. Even my daughter is helping out with finger crocheting and braiding.
And our little pup loves these toys. She pulls on one end, and the kids pull on the other.

The braided toys don’t last forever. But I have plenty of leftover yarn, after all.

I gave away two large bags of leftover yarn because otherwise I’d never get through it all. It was a hodgepodge of acrylic and polyester yarn—some I’d received as gifts myself, and some purchases whose colors I no longer like and that I’d never use anyway. The preschool children will surely enjoy them more.

Now I only have cotton yarn in a handy box and yarn in beautiful colors that I already have projects in mind for. However, it’s so little that it all fits into a large bag.
Now everything is much easier to keep track of.

As soon as my two main projects are finished, I’ll be putting my leftover yarn to use. I already have some pretty good ideas for that.

It’s easy when the leftover yarn is all the same quality and yardage.
It’s harder when the leftover yarn is a hodgepodge of all sorts of different yarns. But there’s a use for that, too...

I’ll check in when everything is ready—with a before photo ... and maybe an after photo as well.

Of course, I have leftover yarn too. I collect small pieces in a cup—they serve as stitch markers when I’m crocheting. The slightly longer pieces of leftover yarn, well… They used to be in a separate compartment of my mini-storage unit. My kids have permission to use that area. My daughter (9) takes… for her crafts. 

Somehow, they’re piling up again. And I was so diligent about using them up during the last leftover yarn campaign. But with almost every knitting project, there’s always a little bit left over that’s just too good to throw away.

Thanks to my “yarn diet,” instead of buying new yarn for my latest project yesterday, I rummaged through the attic and found some beautiful yarn in spring and summer colors.
Since I’ve decided to make it very colorful—and I found four 100-gram skeins (all the same type but in different variegated colors)—and now that I know how to combine them, this is going to be a beautiful spring project!