Yarn cheers you up

I did another swatch of the tweed from La Droguerie plus Kidsilk Haze. On the left is the new swatch, using a darker blue KSH from my stash. On the right is the previous one using KSH in Trance. I don't know the name of the darker blue - I just hope it's still in production because I think it's the one. The tweedy bits show up much better and the background is more blended. I'm using 5 mm needles and getting about 4.5 stitches to the inch.

The mess in the house with things still not in their right places and builders still not quite finished (the last nagging little bits and pieces) was getting me down. I decided to collect all  my yarn in one place and sort it out as much as possible. It cheered me up no end!

Over the past five or six years I have accumulated lots of odd balls of different types of yarn that I thought I would like to try ('and can always make toys or children's clothes of,' I thought in my innocence). I even bought twos or fours to try to make the purchases more useful eventually. Well it was all weighing me down and now I've got a couple of largish bags of yarn to go to the charity shops.

The rest of my stash is still enormous. I have a complete drawer-full of sock yarn, not counting Koigu; laceweight for five or six shawls; yarn for about seven jerseys; plus little collections of favourites such as Kidsilk Haze, Koigu, Noro, Satakieli, Kauni. Then there's also an extensive collection of Shetland two-ply (filling five plastic tubs, though admittedly each one is quite small). I've kept quite a few odd balls as well, because you never know...

Comments

[Jill]

That's not a proper stash - just a small collection. Dawn and I will have to give you some lessons......

[Yvonne]

I have a drawerful of sock yarn and don't knit socks!

Knowing your excellent taste in yarn I might have to start stalking the charity shops - sorry , corect that, I must start following your good example and donate surplus!

[dawn]

That's not enormous - I'd call that tiny! A drawerful of sock yarns? Lace for half a dozen shawls?! You should see my stash!
I have several boxes of oddments (excluding 4ply -that's in a packing box) which I think I'll use for scarves or baby stuff too.