Do you ever bought yarn without knowing what project you are going to make with ? It happens to me everytime I buy yarn in a LYS unless it's sock yarn, not too difficult to choose a project after buying. When going throught my yarn I do discover yarn that I have no idea what to make with and it's a little problem when you try to reduce the amount of yarn waiting to be knitted.
So in my reduce that stash year, I have more time to think about yarn management and also with my little one on the way I also needed to move my stash from his previous emplacement (now converted from a office/craft room to a girlie baby's room). After 5 months this is how it goes...
New additions :
- 14 skeins of Cascade 220 that I bought myself (3080 yards)
- 2 big balls of Bernat baby sport from my BF (2228 yards)
- a big bag of unknow fiber from my BF (approx 1200 yards)
- 7 balls of Bergère de France Merino from my mother-in-law (798 yards)
- 2 balls of Bernat Cottontots from mother-in-law too (300 yards)
- 2 skeins of wool from Laine douceurs from my BF (860 yards)
- 1 skein of Kiss and Curl (Fleece Artist) from my BF too (547 yards)
total of 9013 yards
and that's all... I made not so bad if I look at what I pay or not, but the 3 last skeins are totally on my head because even if he insist and pay, I did choose the yarn myself and enter in the LYS by myself too !!!
I did use :
- 476 yards for the Trellis toddler sweater
- 626 yards for my February Lady sweater
- 1144 yards for my Tilted for the Olympics
- 93 yards for the Hodge Boy
- 70 yard for the Hodge girl (I made them smaller)
- 303 yards for the Easter's BSJ
- 176 yards for my Rose Red
- 231 yards for my Bird in hand
- 287 yards for the Pea Pod baby set
- 460 yards for my dad's sock
- 363 yards for the Baby girl jacket
- 88 yards for the Aviatrix hat
- 66 yards for the Flakey socks
not counting the WIP I have on needle I used up : 4384 yards so far in 2010
So if I want to be cold sheep by the end of the year I need to knit at least 4630 yards of FO by the end of 2010 to be reducing my stash...at least with my 3 current project I will used more than 2000 yards so as usual, just keep knitting.
Happy knitting dear readers
2 comments:
whoa, that's a lot of yarn!! I totally know what you mean about trying to get the stash down- I'm trying really hard to reduce my stash, too- but then I keep buying more beautiful yarn!!
It seems like a realistic objective ;-) It looks like a nice little stash: not too big, not too small ;-)
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