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Yarn Stash Bash

In a word, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! The mail brought good tidings today. My new yarn has arrived.

I was feeling very sorry for myself, looking at the decrepit state of my yarn stash. So I splashed out and went eBaying. I’ve wanted to get into knitted washcloths in a semi-major way - this is almost entirely Smariek’s fault, for being such a prolific and talented designer - so it only seemed logical to buy some cotton. By the pound.

And like peanut butter cups, you can never stop at just one.

It was strangely liberating. Click. Click. Click. Three pounds of 4-ply cotton yarn. I didn’t know what colors it would be. I didn’t know how many ounces each ball would be. I actually didn’t care. Take my money. Mail my yarn.

It has arrived.

I’m still not quite done wallowing in my good fortune. I mean, earth tones and candy colors, variegated and solid, giant wads and discreet little balls. I would never, ever have been so omnivorous or so creative if I’d actually gone out and gone shopping. Never. I should be overwhelmed by the options, but I haven’t stopped playing with my yarn yet.

It’s educational, the same way that several years of stashbusting was educational. When I choose yarns for myself, the project never turns out as well as it does when I just have yarn. Imposing my will on yarn never works out as well as hanging out with the yarn until it tells me what it wants to be.

Welcome to my house, cotton yarn. Let’s talk.

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