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Well I just found you today, so a bit of a late start. I'm Mary in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
I hate to even think about the size of my stash. This past weekend I got back to sorting it to put some stuff up for sale on ebay. I posted 3 auctions and also started an inventory. Bad news, my stick drive seems to be corrupt and I can't access anything on it. At least I only got through the bottom shelf of the shelves in the guest room. At this point I'm not really up to listing all the places I have yarn stashed, never mind all that might be there, but one story might suffice....
I did resist the urge to join some friends on a road trip last Saturday that included a visit to the yarn shop in Gordonsville. But they called when they were there just to make sure I didn't need anything. I almost succumbed to the urge to have them buy Cascade for me (since I really want to try the felted bowls in "One Skein" and/or the felted boxes in "Mason-Dixon," but did resist. When I started the inventory the next day the first box that came off the shelf was 7 bags (10 balls each) of different colors of Pure Highland Wool from an Elann sale that I had bought specifically with felting in mind. When you can't remember you have that much yarn for felting you're in trouble.
So, other than not straying from the KAL, my goals are:
1) Inventory the stash.
2) Reduce the stash by at least 10%. Sounds little, but given what I think the size is could involve a lot of ebay auctions since I probably can't knit that fast. Might adjust this when I do step 1 though.
My exceptions:
1) Yarn necessary to finish a WIP/UFO in existance at this time (so no starting things just so I have an excuse 'cause, "oops, guess I don't have quite enough...")
2) Trip to Idaho with my niece (via Massachusetts to pick her up). This may be easy or hard. In Mass I plan a quick trip to Webs to try and locate a size 35 circular for the aunt we'll be visiting in Idaho. Just being there might make me woozy. But I also want to make sure my niece (a new knitter) has something to do on the trip, so if I can't bring her something from my own stash I can at least fight the Webs urge by purchasing only for her! In Idaho I don't know if there will be yarn-buying opportunities, but if there is something and its unique I'll probably let myself get a wee souvenier.
My reward:
Have to think about this some more. I'm definately in the "buying yarn would defeat the purpose camp." I'm thinking something that will help keep the (smaller!) stash organized in the future might be the ticket, but I'm not sure what that is.
I hate to even think about the size of my stash. This past weekend I got back to sorting it to put some stuff up for sale on ebay. I posted 3 auctions and also started an inventory. Bad news, my stick drive seems to be corrupt and I can't access anything on it. At least I only got through the bottom shelf of the shelves in the guest room. At this point I'm not really up to listing all the places I have yarn stashed, never mind all that might be there, but one story might suffice....
I did resist the urge to join some friends on a road trip last Saturday that included a visit to the yarn shop in Gordonsville. But they called when they were there just to make sure I didn't need anything. I almost succumbed to the urge to have them buy Cascade for me (since I really want to try the felted bowls in "One Skein" and/or the felted boxes in "Mason-Dixon," but did resist. When I started the inventory the next day the first box that came off the shelf was 7 bags (10 balls each) of different colors of Pure Highland Wool from an Elann sale that I had bought specifically with felting in mind. When you can't remember you have that much yarn for felting you're in trouble.
So, other than not straying from the KAL, my goals are:
1) Inventory the stash.
2) Reduce the stash by at least 10%. Sounds little, but given what I think the size is could involve a lot of ebay auctions since I probably can't knit that fast. Might adjust this when I do step 1 though.
My exceptions:
1) Yarn necessary to finish a WIP/UFO in existance at this time (so no starting things just so I have an excuse 'cause, "oops, guess I don't have quite enough...")
2) Trip to Idaho with my niece (via Massachusetts to pick her up). This may be easy or hard. In Mass I plan a quick trip to Webs to try and locate a size 35 circular for the aunt we'll be visiting in Idaho. Just being there might make me woozy. But I also want to make sure my niece (a new knitter) has something to do on the trip, so if I can't bring her something from my own stash I can at least fight the Webs urge by purchasing only for her! In Idaho I don't know if there will be yarn-buying opportunities, but if there is something and its unique I'll probably let myself get a wee souvenier.
My reward:
Have to think about this some more. I'm definately in the "buying yarn would defeat the purpose camp." I'm thinking something that will help keep the (smaller!) stash organized in the future might be the ticket, but I'm not sure what that is.
posted by Mary in VA at 7:36 AM
1 Comments:
I am beginning to agree with the camp of "buying more yarn defeats the purpose" but OH! it would be nice.
Someone else had a good reward, though I can't remember what it was... a weekend away maybe.
Ooh, no, I remember. Koigu for a skirt. I'm still in love with that enormous floor length Koigu skirt from the Winter Vogue. But it's like 200 bucks worth of Koigu. I am not sure I will EVER knit enough to earn that.
Eeek. More yarn.
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