The Rapture is Coming! Prepare!

[cross-posted from my blog]

THE END IS NEAR!! Prepare and repent!

No, not really. No repentence here; just preparation. The Summer of Stash ends in what? four days? I think I can hold out until then.

But here's where the preparation part comes in. I have a list. It's a list of yarns I plan to buy at the end of the stashalong. What? You didn't think I was simply not buying the yarn without keeping track, didya? What if I need that yarn I resisted? And then there are all those projects that are languishing, un-done because I don't have the yarn for them (of course, in some instances, I haven't purchased the pattern either). If I don't keep track, I might not buy the yarn! We couldn't have that, now could we.

So, without any further ado, the list:
Kidsilk Haze
Kidsilk Night
Coloumart cashmere
Koigu
Seasilk
Noro Kureyon (for a mulitdirectional diagonal scarf)
Socks That Rock colorway "County Clare"
Embroidery floss for bracelets
Jo Sharpe Silk Road Aran Tweed (for my Ribby Cardi)
Yarn for the Dancing Woman socks from Knitty
Helen's lace in a solid color for a shawl or stole

As I read it over, I imagined all the yarn arriving within the space of a few days chez Fido, and my getting to luxuriate in it. Ahhh . . . the rapture!

But then a funny thing happened as I started the 'checking it twice' portion of the list-making process:

I don't have any particular use for Kidsilk Haze or Kidsilk night. No projects in mind; nothing I'm likely to get to soon, anyway. Those got crossed off.

Same for the Colourmart cashmere. Yes, it'd be nice just to have it, but really, there's nothing that needs doing. Crossed that one off, too.

Koigu got added to the list just because I read someone saying how much they enjoyed working with it. Plus, it's beautiful. But again, no project in mind. Another strike-through.

The Seasilk . . . I still plan to get that -- if only to pet it; I'm so captivated with the idea of it.

The Noro just got added to the list today (as a Christmas gift for my Brother-in-law).

I think I may still have to get the County Clare colorway sock yarn -- it's beautiful. I'll find something to do with it.

The embroidery floss was for those bracelets up on Knitty. I no longer have any interest in making them. So I'm not going to get it.

I still LOVE the look of the Dancing Woman socks, and will probably make them . . . but I can wait to get the yarn until the project gets closer to the top of the queue; otherwise it could wind up like Samus, languishing in the stash for a year and taunting me with "aren't you EVER going to knit me? you bought me for a specific purpose! What's going on here?"

As for the Helen's Lace . . . not until I find a shawl or stole I cannot resist. I own plenty of lace-weight yarn already. And it takes so long to knit with the stuff that it could be another two years before I go through the lace I already have. So, another item taken off the list.

Just look at the space, time, and money I've saved by waiting (and waiting and waiting) to buy the yarn!

And I've learned something else, too: I should work on de-stashing certain yarns to people who will love them as much as I once did, and who may actually use them to make something useful (or at least nice-looking. or at least fun to make. or something). Even with very little new yarn coming into the house, and even when I went stash-diving to come up with a project, these yarns did not call to me. I have some variegated lace that I just don't think I'll ever use; and some sock yarn that just doesn't grab me the way it once did; and maybe some other stuff as well. I try, in the rest of my life, not to be a hoarding pack rat (I don't always succeed, but at least I try), and it would definitely be a good thing to carry that over to my knitting stash.

So stay tuned . . . there may be a yarn giveaway coming up. But not until after I unpack from vacation, at the earliest.
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Editing to add: I just noticed that the seasilk is laceweight, too. For now, I have more than enough of that, so I'm thinking the sea silk purchase will wait for a while.