Fade Your Scraps

The pattern includes a tutorial for changing yarn and carrying an unused yarn color up the side edge for the next stripe or solid section.

The color fade technique is popular in knitting and crochet right now and works great for scrap yarn. I save my leftover yarn in plastic bags sorted by yarn weight and color. Then, I love to do a sort of “color mash up” crochet or knit project.

For this wrap you can use your scraps and you can decide how you want to blend your colors. Fade Your Scraps is a boomerang-shaped wrap that starts out with a dark color and slowly fades to lighter colors.

The wrap is crocheted starting with a few stitches, and the stopping point is determined by measuring the length of the long increase edge of the wrap, so you do not have to count rows or stitches. The stitch pattern is crocheted on the diagonal and is an easy two-row repeat. When you reach the stopping point you will crochet an accent row, then finish the wrap off with tassels.