Less is more - day 24

I've had this post ready for over two weeks - remember when I said I had a clever idea for a get-it-outa-the-house haul?   

Well...  it started with coming across these 6 candles:

I bought them once upon a time for small gifts.  But somehow I never got around to gifting them.   I was going to just donate them and then it occurred to me that if I just applied myself, I could create six nifty gifts and empty my house of more than just the candles.

So...  I added some hand-knitted dishcloths I already had (2 per candle):

Then dug through my gift bags and tissue paper, and came up with six gifts - all now ready at a moment's notice for a cute little gift when something like this will be appropriate:

Including the bags (that we seem to continually accumulate) here are 24 more things ready to leave my house!  I'm thinking between Thanksgiving and Christmas I'll surely find homes for these.

You've gotta admit...  that's a lot more clever than just donating them, right?

And since today is my Year of Project Update,  I also want to share two scarves I finished this past week:

An easy ribbed scarf made with two strands of a pretty paprika-colored yarn, combined with a closely matching fingering weight yarn - for a bit of depth.


And:

 A Puff Stitch scarf.  Oh, how I love this.  I'm giving this one away, but hopefully soon I'll start on one for me!

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