Speaking of afghans.........I bought some yarn on clearance many years ago. It was the "Vanna" brand that I see at all the craft stores. I decided to make a lap afghan and I started making hexagon grannys. Well, once it was lap size I didn't want to work on it anymore because I had been working on the hexs all through my kidney surgery nightmare and working on those hexs brought back the nightmares (I still have nightmares from that time 4 years ago).
So, the yarn and the unfinished afghan etc was wrapped up, put in a box and tucked away with my yarn stash. Fast forward to 4 months ago I came across it while digging for something else and I laid it on my bed and thought that I would make more hexs and turn it into a bedspread. I did measuring and the math and started buying yarn to go with the clearance yarn from all those years ago. I bought too much yarn. I wanted to have a selection of colors and ended up with a LOT of yarn.
Then I had the bright idea to make a "scrap" afghan from all the various yarn. One problem is I'm not very good at random. Even things that look random to other people have a distinctive pattern and I wanted this one to be random. It's just a good ole' ripple afghan like everyone makes, but I make every color just one row with a "random" selection of colors. I want it long enough so that my 6'5" hubbie can lay under it and it covers head to toe and I only have about 18-inches left. However, it was supposed to be random and I'm pretty sure there isn't a pattern, but again, I wanted the colors to be throughout, so I ended up buying more yarn so the colors were even. And now I'm almost done, and yes, I still have yarn leftover.
I think it's a curse, you want to "use up your scraps", but you end up never having enough scraps for the project you started and you
buy more yarn!!!!!
I am sick and tired of the hexs for now, I have all the colors sewn together and have done three skeins of off white to go between them, and I have many more to go. I think that will be my in progress for next winter. I do like the hexs for traveling. All you have to take with you is a small bag, two skeins of yarn, my hook and scissors. No pattern or book, so they can be worked anywhere. That one is going to look like the "Grandmother's Flower Garden" quilt pattern. Colored hexs sew like a flower head with off white between them. I'll probably make some matching pillows too, since I have plenty of "leftovers".
All that from a couple of clearance skeins of pink yarn!!