State of the Stash 2010
Posted by Elizabeth on 01-23-2010 at 8:39 am
Last year I posted a picture of my entire stash in a pile on the kitchen table.
Remember? I thought I would repeat the experiment this year as well. This is more for my own records and benefit than yours, but anyway, here is the stash as of ten minutes ago (because I am used to getting up at 5 a.m. now, even though my job just ended, and what else am I going to do this early on a Saturday but take pictures of yarn?):
There has been some change-over, as you can see. All of the Harry Potter Scarf yarn has been used (thank goodness), as has all of the sock yarn that I had at the time. Actually, all the sock yarn has been used, period, except for the scraps that are going into the blanket. I did not realize that until just now. I am out of sock yarn. Huh.
As to what has been added, well. As you can see, I have a new bundle of fiber. That was acquired in September, and has not been touched yet. I am planning some sport-weight three-ply, but have not gotten around to it. You can also see two skeins of un-dyed, sport-weight alpaca there on top, and off to the right is a cake of angora/merino/silk left-over from a set of gloves I made for the Husband for Christmas. The other thing that makes the pile look a similar size to the one from last year is that I have added all the yarn left from the Lozengy Blanket back into the stash. The blanket itself has been turned into a cat bed.
I know it does not look like the stash is much smaller than it was, but I promise it is. Everything fits back in the Yarn Crate now, which is good. This year my goal is to clean out more left-overs, largely by knitting blanket squares for charity and wash cloths for myself. No need for promises to not buy yarn at all, because I really did not purchase very much last year. Maybe $120 over the course of the year. Maybe. Likely, much less. I can distinctly remember buying about $40 of sweater yarn, $20 of sock yarn, and $25 of that glove yarn. If there were other purchases, they were less than $10 each.
As for the sock yarn blanket, I know I have not talked about it much lately. I really did not do much knitting in the last half of the year, and most of it was on other projects. I am done with three entire rows (not much I know), and it is in that awkward stage where you want to take a picture, but it just looks ridiculous. So, instead, I give you a picture of me working on it!
Chai, the cat, has decided that she has to be on my lap whenever I am sitting in the bean bag. Usually, this is when I am knitting or reading. Reading is not much of a problem, as long as it isn't a large book, but she usually ends up under a pile of knitting. She doesn't seem to have much of a problem with that, usually, but she still does get evicted if she starts trying to chew on the yarn.
Remember? I thought I would repeat the experiment this year as well. This is more for my own records and benefit than yours, but anyway, here is the stash as of ten minutes ago (because I am used to getting up at 5 a.m. now, even though my job just ended, and what else am I going to do this early on a Saturday but take pictures of yarn?):
There has been some change-over, as you can see. All of the Harry Potter Scarf yarn has been used (thank goodness), as has all of the sock yarn that I had at the time. Actually, all the sock yarn has been used, period, except for the scraps that are going into the blanket. I did not realize that until just now. I am out of sock yarn. Huh.
As to what has been added, well. As you can see, I have a new bundle of fiber. That was acquired in September, and has not been touched yet. I am planning some sport-weight three-ply, but have not gotten around to it. You can also see two skeins of un-dyed, sport-weight alpaca there on top, and off to the right is a cake of angora/merino/silk left-over from a set of gloves I made for the Husband for Christmas. The other thing that makes the pile look a similar size to the one from last year is that I have added all the yarn left from the Lozengy Blanket back into the stash. The blanket itself has been turned into a cat bed.
I know it does not look like the stash is much smaller than it was, but I promise it is. Everything fits back in the Yarn Crate now, which is good. This year my goal is to clean out more left-overs, largely by knitting blanket squares for charity and wash cloths for myself. No need for promises to not buy yarn at all, because I really did not purchase very much last year. Maybe $120 over the course of the year. Maybe. Likely, much less. I can distinctly remember buying about $40 of sweater yarn, $20 of sock yarn, and $25 of that glove yarn. If there were other purchases, they were less than $10 each.
As for the sock yarn blanket, I know I have not talked about it much lately. I really did not do much knitting in the last half of the year, and most of it was on other projects. I am done with three entire rows (not much I know), and it is in that awkward stage where you want to take a picture, but it just looks ridiculous. So, instead, I give you a picture of me working on it!
Chai, the cat, has decided that she has to be on my lap whenever I am sitting in the bean bag. Usually, this is when I am knitting or reading. Reading is not much of a problem, as long as it isn't a large book, but she usually ends up under a pile of knitting. She doesn't seem to have much of a problem with that, usually, but she still does get evicted if she starts trying to chew on the yarn.
Knitting, Spinning
