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Hi! I'm Anastacia. I'm petriefied of this, going a summer without buying yarn? I am a yarn junkie. I buy 99% of my yarn over the summer at yard sales & flea markets & auctions, etc. so I am petrified at this challenge. However, I feel compelled to do it, because I'm going to have to make my husband move if I buy any more yarn!
Exception:
1. I can still buy wool yarn from yard sales/auctions/flea markets, etc., but the yarn must only be used for CIC www.childrenincommon.org. It's for charity, and I can't afford a ton of new wool, and garments for CIC must be at least 50% wool (they prefer 100%, which is what I do). I'm not in any yarn clubs, and I can resist (hopefully) other yarn purchases, but I can't say no to freezing kids.
Challenges (*edited by Anastacia*)
1. I've been doing this anyway: use all up those little odd ball scraps of yarn - 1 ft. to several feet long or slightly bigger - to knit toddler stripey socks for CIC. Keep doing this.
2. Use up all that vintage wool/nylon yarn that you bought two summers ago. Find a use for it, or resell/gift/RAOK/whatever. I have probably 50 odd half/partial/full skeins of wool 50 years old, that is lace weight those marketed as sock yarn.
3. Use up all those balls of lustersheen & woolease I bought before I got married. I have a zillion balls of mostly the same color, find something to make, or get rid of them. Especially the woolease - they are ten years old, I think! The lustersheen is six or seven!
4. Looking through my stash, I found 10 50 gram balls of Elite Options Cotton Chenille 50 gram balls. I bought this stuff even longer ago than the woolease. It's a variagated gray, almost slate gray light & dark shades. I'm working up some gauge swatches & I'm going to knit a top out of this. Not sure if it'll be sleeveless or not, but we'll see where the designing muse takes me. It'll be a pretty simple, hopefully fast knit, to use up the yarn, and will be for me as it's hand wash only. It's been in my stash for so long because after I bought it, I realized I really didn't like the color, and I have never been able to find the perfect thing for it, though I did make a purse out of it (crochet) ions ago for a friend just to use up some of it.
Exception:
1. I can still buy wool yarn from yard sales/auctions/flea markets, etc., but the yarn must only be used for CIC www.childrenincommon.org. It's for charity, and I can't afford a ton of new wool, and garments for CIC must be at least 50% wool (they prefer 100%, which is what I do). I'm not in any yarn clubs, and I can resist (hopefully) other yarn purchases, but I can't say no to freezing kids.
Challenges (*edited by Anastacia*)
1. I've been doing this anyway: use all up those little odd ball scraps of yarn - 1 ft. to several feet long or slightly bigger - to knit toddler stripey socks for CIC. Keep doing this.
2. Use up all that vintage wool/nylon yarn that you bought two summers ago. Find a use for it, or resell/gift/RAOK/whatever. I have probably 50 odd half/partial/full skeins of wool 50 years old, that is lace weight those marketed as sock yarn.
3. Use up all those balls of lustersheen & woolease I bought before I got married. I have a zillion balls of mostly the same color, find something to make, or get rid of them. Especially the woolease - they are ten years old, I think! The lustersheen is six or seven!
4. Looking through my stash, I found 10 50 gram balls of Elite Options Cotton Chenille 50 gram balls. I bought this stuff even longer ago than the woolease. It's a variagated gray, almost slate gray light & dark shades. I'm working up some gauge swatches & I'm going to knit a top out of this. Not sure if it'll be sleeveless or not, but we'll see where the designing muse takes me. It'll be a pretty simple, hopefully fast knit, to use up the yarn, and will be for me as it's hand wash only. It's been in my stash for so long because after I bought it, I realized I really didn't like the color, and I have never been able to find the perfect thing for it, though I did make a purse out of it (crochet) ions ago for a friend just to use up some of it.
posted by Anastacia at 12:12 PM
3 Comments:
Welcome, Anastacia! Glad to have you here. I am especially looking forward to seeing some of your CIC items, as I am new to this charity, and will soon be the aunt of a Russian adoptee!
I love that you knit for charity and that's a great exception. Using up stash rocks!
Thanks! I couldn't join SoS without my CIC exception. I crochet lapghans for the area nursing homes, too, but that's acrylic & I have plenty of acrylic already (around 1000 pounds of it, divided between my place & storage). I don't think I'll ever run out of acrylic, but I have a relatively small wool supply.
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