I don’t collect every tiny scrap of yarn – though some folks do and they use the tiniest of them to stuff amiguarmi, pillows, and the like. For me, a scrap needs to be 4 inches or longer to stuff in my scrap bucket.

I’ve been saving scraps for over a year – I really only separate them by material. Recently I decided I had enough cotton scraps to invest time into creating something with them.

So I gathered all of my scraps and began tying them together, mostly random but I did try to avoid hard lines like yellows next to purples.

If you’re wondering how to join yarn, I shared this on my social media channels. Like the magic ring, videos and well meaning artists can make it look harder than it is. Even me. But it’s simple and took only a couple of hours to join a years worth of cotton scraps together that equalled a 15oz ball of beautiful magical cotton yarn.

Deciding what to do with this beautiful ball of possibilities was pretty simple – summer time is coming up and I wanted a bucket hat. I’d tried various free bucket hat patterns in the past and liked them, but this time I wanted to do something good for the planet (use my scraps) and also support a small business (buy a pattern)

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So I bought a couple of patterns and tried them and ultimately decided to utlize my scrap ball to make not just one but FIVE bucket hats using the Sunshine Bucket Hat from KristinaaCreates on Etsy – I like the brim of the hat on this one the best of the bucket hat patterns I’ve tried. I also like that it’s made up of half double crochets so it works up really fast – I can’t believe I had enough to make 5 of them! Click Here to See the Pattern.

I also made one for my sweet mom who is fighting cancer and showing a bit more scalp than she’d like to these days – she looked adorable wearing it on the patio over Easter weekend. These are definitely unique hats that gather a lot of wow and attention when worn out in public.

I have many other scrap yarn projects listed on this website – one of my favorites is my new magic hanging scrap yarn towel that uses the moss stitch – so it feels absolutely wonderful, like linen, and also works up super quickly!