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I’m filling a box with hats and scarves for charity! (You know, because we’re getting into the kind of weather where one would need warm accessories…)

The last time I did something like this, I filled a “bin”, meaning, one of the plastic bins I was using to store my yarn. I figured if I could take the yarn out and put it back in in the shape of a hat or scarf, then I could cart the whole thing off to my parents’ house and I’d have stash-busted not just the yarn, but the bin!

Brilliant plan, except Mom doesn’t seem to want the bins. I got that original bin back and it is now holding Christmas decorations. Mom traded the plastic bin for a cardboard box (left over from our move); I think it’s so that she can just take the stuff over to the charity in the box and leave the whole thing there.

So, this time around I’m going to skip the middle-m… er… middle-container, and put the warm goodies into a cardboard box. The one I got in the mail recently seemed like the best bet, so here it is!

And this is what’s inside so far:

I’m still stash busting, and I’m concentrating on the black yarn. I’ve got two bins full of black! I’m using the odds and ends left over from the last batch of hats for stripes and the like. Also, the hats are bigger this time; they’ve asked me to make bigger hats for older kids, so I’ve gone up a loom size and I’m making the scarves slightly longer. I might throw in some Crochet-On-the-Double sets, too…