Thursday, July 28, 2022

The State of the Stash

 

I am box free for the first time in 3 years.  If you look closely you can just see Gray Kitty whooshing by the last of them. The Mister spent yesterday driving around to different donation places to unload it all. We had boxes of dishware, pantry items and...........boxes of yarn. That's the yarn. The local senior center was more than happy to get three full boxes of unloved yarn. 


There's still plenty where that came from. I spent the day before the Great Unloading deep cleaning the sewing/soap room which includes the stash closet. I LOVE to play in the stash closet. I am a firm believer that yarn is not just for knitting but for collecting.



Right before The Mister took off with the boxes I rescued a skein of hot pink Stroll from one of them. When I went to put it in the sock stash I was horrified. That is just too much-even for a collector like me. 



Don't tell The Mister but that pink skein eventually found its way into the overflow drawer that is one of the unused drawers in his armoire. So much sock yarn. So little time. Must knit faster.




7 comments:

  1. I am a yarn collector myself, it gives me peace knowing it is here and I can knit 10,000 sweaters in case there is an ice age coming. have fun!

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  2. LOL - I think we are all collectors! Congratulations on being box-free!

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  3. Having those boxes gone must feel so good!

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  4. Since I moved four years ago, I’ve concentrated on knitting down the stash. It’s nearing containment which makes me happy.

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  5. That may indeed be a lot of sock yarn, but it would also make lovely scarves!! (And maybe that would make it disappear more quickly??) Good for you to give up as much yarn as you did. I have been on a yarn buying moratorium, but wandered into a yarn shop while out of town-- and found a deal I could not pass up!! Beautiful, hand dyed superwash merino for $6.50...

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  6. Wow--what a wonderful job getting rid of the boxes! Sock yarn is essential bc if the supply line is broken, you won't be forced to go without! lol

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  7. Several months ago I counted my sock stash. It was at enough yarn for 370 pair. It has been added to since then with only 2 pair knit. You are right .....MUST.KNIT.FASTER!

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