Help! Help! cried the voice of Stuntmother from under the pile of yarn
A little while ago, around the Flash Your Stash thing, I realized with some horror that I don't like having a stash. This is, I know, a sort of semi-heretical statement. I am a devoted knitter. A passionate, productive knitter. A knitter in love with yarn and all its wonder. But a large stash feels like a towering to do list, rather than a resource. So this summer I am going to sink that stash! It will be liberating. Amazing. Rewarding!
So - I pledge that from Memorial Day to Labor Day I will knit only from stash. I will knit unseasonal projects without flinching (since most of the stash is wool). I will not cast anything on until several things are cast off. I will whittle down my enormous list of planned projects for which I have yarn already and some of which are already cast on, including:
I am reserving my exceptions because I am hoping to get away without any exception but, knowing that might not be possible, I am waiting to see what extremity I might be pushed to.
My reward will be twofold: one will be being able to open the bedroom door without having to shove back the yarn pile. The second will be a visit to Loop AND a visit to the Tangled Web, since I have my 20% ready to go and it will spread out the joy. Malabrigo will be fondled, and probably purchased.
I am already feeling the stash shrink. Which makes me think I could quickly run to...
no no. That's what got me in this mess in the first place.
So - I pledge that from Memorial Day to Labor Day I will knit only from stash. I will knit unseasonal projects without flinching (since most of the stash is wool). I will not cast anything on until several things are cast off. I will whittle down my enormous list of planned projects for which I have yarn already and some of which are already cast on, including:
- Ene's Shawl
- thrummed mittens
- Landscape shawl
- malabrigo wrap sweater
- Daniel's planet sweater
- KSH sweater
- Helena's pink wrap cardigan
- Wrapped in Tradition
I am reserving my exceptions because I am hoping to get away without any exception but, knowing that might not be possible, I am waiting to see what extremity I might be pushed to.
My reward will be twofold: one will be being able to open the bedroom door without having to shove back the yarn pile. The second will be a visit to Loop AND a visit to the Tangled Web, since I have my 20% ready to go and it will spread out the joy. Malabrigo will be fondled, and probably purchased.
I am already feeling the stash shrink. Which makes me think I could quickly run to...
no no. That's what got me in this mess in the first place.
posted by Francesca at 7:58 AM
4 Comments:
I am so excited to see you finish all those projects! think of all the great stuff you are gonna have when you are done.
I've got a dilemna between wanting a small and tidy stash, while also having enough odd balls and remnants to make freeform knitting, or Kaffe Fasset designs when the mood strikes me. So I can understand you saying that you don't like a stash.
Oh, SM, we will so go to Loop this fall! It will get ugly!
I feel exactly the same, all that acrylic is just a big tub of "to do"...
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