My yarn stash is taunting me. I already have close to a dozen projects going. I have three lace shawls, two sweaters, two socks, one hitchhiker mindless garter stitch shawl, a pair of color work mittens, and a linen washcloth. And a partridge in a pear tree. Oh, and the mystery gift thing that will likely take months to complete.
I shouldn’t be rustling around in the stash boxes looking for distraction.
Yet here I am. My stash is bullying me into starting something new. That is a perfectly lovely skein of Dream In Color Smooshy fingering weight, the color is called In Vino Veritas, which is I’m sure why I bought it in the first place. This has been in the stash box for over a decade. I even have a pattern picked out.
Isn’t that pretty? It was written for this very yarn, and it’s free! Free is always good. Of course, I’ve been telling myself that I don’t need another project on the needles, but really, who’s counting? The pattern is Larch.
You do know what happened next, right?
I’m about to wind yarn myself! And I don’t have a problem with the project I’ve been working on, but … this one wants to start!
Oh yes, I can so relate. Long ago I was a monogamous knitter. I had no stash. I bought patterns and the yarn called for, cast on, knitted to the end…you know, in the days before Ravelry and yarn stores on line. I’ll have to go look at that patttern you mentioned as I know I have some Smooshy fingering.
You go, Girl!
Oh, you lured me in! Such a pretty pattern & don’t we all have some yarn in our stash that would be perfect for it? YEP! Thanks for enabling!!
Oh, good! I’m not the only one that can’t go anywhere near her stash without hearing “Knit me, Kimberly! No, me! No, Kimberly, pick me!”