January 2007:
Igor has grown to 20 skeins of sweat yarn, 25 skeins of novelty yarn (don’t know where that came from), and 4 skeins of sock yarn after a End of the Year Clearance sale at a local craft store. Igor completely fits in a wicker storage basket with room to spare.
February 2007:
Discover self-stripping yarns at LYS. Buy enough for 2 pairs of socks. Yarn is not knitted up and put away in the storage basket saying, “I’ll knit this up as soon as I knit that sweater.”
March 2007:
Order first skein of handpainted yarn. Fondle, pet it nearly continually and nearly absorbed by the little stashette that is demanding to be fed. After a better power struggle with Igor, eventually knit the skein up. Fall in love and ordered 4 more colors including one skin of wool/silk laceweight just because, “That’s so beautiful! I must have it! I’ll figure something to knit it into!” Upon arrival, Igor immediately claims the yarn in retaliation for taking the last skein from him.
Igor still fits in a single storage basket, but it’s getting a little full.
April 2007:
Visit first non-LYS yarn shop. The yarn fumes from the luxury yarns was over powering, compounded with a near lethal dose from the clearance basket containing sock yarn. Igor consumes the yarn as soon as it enters the house.
Finally break down and buy another wicker storage basket to hold the stashette. Separate the non-sock yarn from the sock yarn.
May 2007:
Between first fiber fair and the re-grand opening of the LYS, Igor has doubled in size in less than a month. Now occupying 3 wicker stash baskets that are overflowing.
June 2007:
Attempt first destashing: give mother and sister all of the novelty yarn after realizing the though of working with novelty yarn gives hives. Feel better for a few weeks but then start thinking don’t have enough yarn.
July 2007:
Go on first yarn crawl; two yarn stores in one day. The 32-day yarn diet, combined with extreme levels of yarn fume created a feeding frenzy they are still talking about in Driggs, Idaho. Igor mysteriously doubles again in size.
After realizing mere storage baskets are no longer going to cut it; buy 2 large wicker hampers to hold stash.
August 2007:
Buy third wicker hamper. Igor has begun demanding to be fed nearly daily. Demands include cashmere: Socks That Rock, and one-of-a-kind rare sock yarns.
September 2007:
Igor now barely fits into 4 wicker hampers. Nearly bites arm off after being fed first skein of Socks That Rock. Have to stand in the doorway to feed the next skein of Socks That Rock to him.
Husband and cats fear to enter the library/stashette room for fear they will be buried in yarn and eaten alive or held hostage for more yarn. Do not realize Igor has finally gone from stashette size to fill stash and in the process created a mini-clone of himself in the living room.
October 2007:
Igor has taken over the house, demanding yarn. Read somewhere that stashes are supposed to have devoted priestesses not take everyone in their reach hostage.
Please send more yarn soon before he gets into the kitchen. Grape juice and orange juice are hell on handpainted wool.
