Thrums! Know what they are? I’d never heard of them until I came across this website: – Chromanima.com – an independent dyer who produces fully sustainable, traceable and organic cashmere. It seems to me that those of us who always have loads and loads of yarn ends, could do with knowing how to thrum. There’s a free scarf pattern on the website too.

And now to some other stuff:

Linda has knitted another amazing blanket, loosely based on Sharon’s Glamping Blanket pattern which you can find on Ravelry. Linda is a deviant – she hardly ever follows patterns exactly as they are written; she goes off piste and does her own thing. Her intention with this project was to use up her yarn remnants. Judging by the size of the blanket this must have been a mahoosive mountain of left-overs. The yarn she used is a mix of Scheepjes Chunky Monkey, Hayfield Baby Blossom Chunky, random DK and Arans.

Great tip: If you want a chunky weight yarn but only have Aran or DK, use these doubled or trebled to get the chunky you need. You don’t need to stick to what is suggested in the pattern. Deviate and enjoy being a rebel 🙂

Returning to thrums:- The OED gives eight definitions of the word thrum. Who’d have thought, eh?

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