I dragged out all of the yarn boxes yesterday and sorted through some things. Doing this every now and then reminds me of how much lovely yarn I have, and reminds me as well (or it should) that I don’t need any more yarn.
Here are a few photos:
No, that is not all the boxes.
I don’t need any more lace yarn. That’s not all the lace yarn, either.
I apparently don’t need any more Opal sock yarn. There is more Opal squirreled away in other boxes as well.
Or Three Irish Girls sock yarn.
Or anything else, for that matter. I sorted out a few things to get rid of that I know I’ll never use, those are going to my knitting group today to see if anybody there wants them, or knows someone who will want them. I put a few things back in the boxes that I’m pretty sure I won’t use ever, but couldn’t part with (I’m looking at you, 1500 yards of black lace weight cashmere), but overall I have a pretty fine stash of lovely yarn.
Whilst I was rummaging around in the lace yarn, I found the leftover silk lace from my Evenstar shawl. There is plenty leftover, but I have no idea how much. I started with 150 grams, but I didn’t think to weigh it on the cone before I started knitting. So now I’m winding it off so I can weigh it. It’s fine enough that I don’t want to use my industrial strength ball winder, so I’m doing it the old fashioned way.
Please send whisky. This is a very tedious project.
*Stash fluffing: pulling the yarn out of all the boxes, admiring it, and imagining what it might be some day.
Wouldn’t weighing your Evenstar shawl and subtracting that from the original 150gm. tell you what you have left?
You have lots of lovely yarn. Happy knitting!
Lots of loveliness! I find that a good stash dive is essential before going to a festival or on a yarn crawl. Remind myself of how much I already have that I love!
I know the feeling. I have 17 of those totes. I recently sorted through some project bags and found some very interesting ufo’s, including a Marie Fischer beaded lace shawl First third is mango linen, last 2/3rds are white Krystall from Mexico with mango beads. Im working on it again. Coming out very nice, Brads and Arrows, if you want to check Ravelry. Tossing the stash from time to time is a good thing. The beads slow you down, but they are so pretty.
Julie in San Diego, where it’s raining! A crazy year.
Your stash makes me feel better! I thought I had a lot of yarn-amateur compared to you. Now I won’t feel so guilty heading off to another yarn festival-thank you! LOL!!!
I organized all my yarn once.
Once.
It’s not stash…. it’s a yarn IRA
I spy some Hundertwasser in the Opal box! 😉
The bright blue laceweight is making my heart sing,
Julie in San Diego
I’ve got 4, no make that 5, skeins sitting on my desk that I’m thinking of hand winding, just so I can feel I’ve done something with them. I’m totally ignoring the bins (SSSSS) upstairs. 🙂