Can I just confess that for once in my life as a knitter I don’t want any more yarn? I’m not deathly ill, just very, very pleased with my stash at the moment. My Fleece Artist Sea Wool collection is nearly complete. The same can be said for my Socks That Rock collection except for a skein of Socks That Rock Azure Malachite.
For once I am not plotting my next yarn purchase or day dreaming about some juicy new yarn I came across on someone’s blog. Nope, I’m pretty content for once in my life with my stash. Will this last? I doubt it but I plan on enjoying it and using it as justification for a yarn diet until the Snake River Fiber Fair May 16, 17, 18, 2008. I’m sure saying I’m on a yarn diet until then will snap me out of this love-my-stash,-I-don’t-need-anymore-yarn funk by the end of the week.
But I’m serious about this yarn diet. I’ve been so bad here of late about buying yarn even Igor is crying mercy and saying enough is enough. Remember the Christmas Yarn Cube? It spawned an auxiliary high rise in mid-January. The yarn high rise is nearly crammed full and the non-sock yarn is about to get evicted from the Yarn Cube to Basket Flats. We won’t talk about the basket crammed full of yarn in the living room or the yarn in the computer room, nor the half-dozen WIP laying around the house or the all the projects I have planned for my needles. I think at the moment, only the kitchen and the bathrooms are the only yarn-free room as the moment but I can’t guarantee that much longer at the rate I keep buying yarn! Last year I was stash-free except for a few leftover bits of yarn from projects, now umm…I can no longer call Igor a stashette.
In the rearranging of the stash (which is happening way too often) I realized that I had yarn from last year’s fiber fair that I hadn’t even look at since last year. I had clean forgotten I had it at all. Not a clue of what I’m going to do with 750 yards of sport weight handpainted alpaca. That might be a sign of having a problem or two.
The only thing I can say in my defense is at least I knit it up eventually.
