Sunday, February 7, 2016

Colorful Mandala

About three years ago I made this knitted blanket. I knitted it straight across from start to finish, carrying all the colors across the row and twisting strands when I changed colors. At some point I estimated how much yarn I would need for each color patch, and I cut all the lengths of yarn that I needed to finish.
I ended up with this basket of yarn ends, which decorated the short wall between the kitchen and living room.
I decided to crochet the bits of yarn into a mandala. These are the first five rounds.
The finished mandala had ten rounds plus the shells. Towards the end I added some yarn ends from other projects, that were a little bit larger. The outer shells are a single variegated yarn, not ends.