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.
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cotton stash yarnPopularity: 27% [?]
Steeling myself, emotionally prepared, I dragged out my yarn stash today. And I may even have cried a little. How far we have fallen, dear yarn stash.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
A period of straitened domestic economics - screw the fancy talk, we were broke - meant that like it or not, I was stashbusting. I didn’t mind, actually: instead of buying yarn for projects, I was forced to be be creative in combinations. For the kind of lazy knitter/impatient crocheter/mediocre weaver that I am, I worked a lot harder when I had to think instead of just shop. But after a few years of not buying yarn, my once-glorious yarn stash looks like it’s been ravaged by yarn locusts.
Even my husband pitied it, laid out on the living room carpet. And he fears the yarn stash. It was now so sad, even he could not triumph over it.
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acrylic alpaca merino woolPopularity: 20% [?]
A highly original and fantastically cheerful design.
The vegetarians in every knitter’s life should have one, but why stop just with them?
Difficulty level: Easy
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stash yarn straight needles worsted weightPopularity: 28% [?]
