I haven’t been working on any major crochet projects lately. The last thing I completed was a blue, gray, and white baby blanket for my sister’s friend, but I completely forgot to take a photo of it before I sent it off.

Still, I haven’t stopped crocheting altogether. I just haven’t started anything big because I have so much leftover yarn from my earlier projects. So I’ve started practicing a few things with the leftovers.

For instance, here’s a sampler I did in various crochet stitches with the yarn leftover from the hooded baby afghan project.

I also decided to try my hand at some Tunisian crochet and knitting. So here’s what I’ve done practicing that with more leftover yarn.

The yellow piece with the blue heart is done with the basic Tunisian crochet stitch and some basic cross-stitch embroidery. The pink is my first serious attempt at knitting, using the basic garter stitch. The blue — well, the blue is my attempt at knitting something a little more complex.

This is called the diamond seed stitch, created with a pattern of knit and purl stitches. It doesn’t look that great or complex, but remember, I’m new at knitting. This is just a practice piece for me. Heck, those aren’t even real knitting needles — they’re extremely cheap plastic ones that came in a starter kit, and I plan to buy some good ones eventually.

Probably the biggest thing I’ve been doing with leftover yarn though is making dolls.

The one on the right is the first doll I ever made — done with basic single crochet stitches and filled with polyester fiberfill. Not knowing what I was doing, I ran out of the yarn mid-way through the project and used a similar color of yarn in a different weight to finish it off, so when I worked on the second doll, I planned a little bit better. I knew I didn’t have enough yarn to do the doll in one color, so I tried to make it look like it’s wearing a pink sweater and shoes and blue mittens and pants. Plus, I’d gotten myself a bag of safety eyes in various sampler sizes. And voila.

Bunny rabbits.

I still have a big ball of leftover white yarn, so I’ll probably make more of these little guys…

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