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Tue Nov 08 2011

I’ve been toiling away on a rather large knitted bag these last few days. I decided to make a heftier one to use up some bulky yarn I had in the stash.

I have this crazy idea.

I want to reduce my yarn stash to one plastic storage container.

Then, when I want to do a project I can go to the ULTIMATE stash that is my local yarn shop and find the best yarn for the job instead of rummaging through what I have on hand and ‘making do’.

Now, ‘making do’ has a long and glorious tradition. I’m not knocking it. In fact I admire it. But I think I am limiting some areas of my imaginative faculties by knitting things up from what’s on hand rather than what I see in my head.

(I’m afraid to look at what you see in your head. That must be one scary place... beware!)

It’s a good thing that the New World has already been discovered, because if it was up to you, we would still be living in some caves in France or something.

What a weenie.

(Well, YOU are the one who is afraid of your yarn stash, not me.)

I’m not AFRAID of it. I just feel burdened by it sometimes.

(Whatever. This whole conversation is ridiculous anyway.)

Fine, then stay out of it.

Anyhoo , I’ve used up four big hunks of yarn from the inventory and am just working the last few rows before I can throw it in the washer and see what happens.

Things are a little different around here today.

Hub Man has jury duty and was here for oatmeal this morning, at o’dark thirty. He left with his jury pool waiting room reading under his arm. “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters”.

(Seriously?)

Yep.

(You know, I’ve never actually mentioned it, but just between you and me, that dude is weird.)

That’s why we make a good pair.

(Well, there’s that.)

So, I’m off to start my day by taking a walk with my new little friend...

I’m all kinds of happy about it too...

Who would think you could carry around so much music on such a little thing?

My inner, highly conflicted Luddite can’t help but admire it...

Me either.

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(You know the burning question is... when she says ‘me’ who the heck is she referring to?....really?)
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What is that punctuation talking about?

I have no idea.

Who let the short people and chickens in here?

Beats me.

I think they’re all crazy.

Me too.

Boooooo!


3 Comments
  • From:
    InStitches (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Nov 08 2011
    I was kind of feeling the same way recently because some of my yarns have been sitting there for years and I felt a bit guilty over my purchasing habits. But a few days ago I needed to make a very small dog a very small sweater and it just so happened that one of those older yarns that I purchased years ago from a sale bin was perfect for the task.

    Little dog now has a little sweater that cost practically nothing and I did not have to leave home in the rain to shop for yarn. (Not that I mind shopping for yarn mind you, but that's beside the point.)

    Guilt trip over; the stash stays. :)
  • From:
    404Error (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Nov 08 2011
    I need to break out the sewing machine and make the Chihuahuas and the Basset Hound sweaters. I can make all three of them matching sweaters for the price of a yard of polar fleece and a foot of Velcro. Jethro has almost outgrown all of last year's sweaters, but Ellie can still wear them. Well, not the ones she's nearly chewed off of Jethro. Knitted sweaters and snappy, *sharp* little Chihuahua teeth don't really mix very well. The one Jethro is wearing right now has a four-inch "runner" down the left side of his back. It's disgraceful and I'd have to put his coat on him if we went out just to hide the deplorable state of his sweater.
  • From:
    Allimom (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Nov 08 2011
    You want to reduce your yarn stash to one plastic storage container? That's crazy talk I tell ya!

    Have you considered contacting any local 4-H, girlscout, or other youth groups to see about donating it? Our 4-H groups up here have all kinds of things at the fair every year that makes me think that it may not just be in my neighborhood that we have 4-H'ers who knit/crochet.
    Alli