Flashing Your Stash - Yarn Edition
Around this time every year a lot of knitters and spinners like to drag out their stashes of yarn and fibre and take pictures. Some share them as a way of keeping themselves accountable to their stashdown goals. Some share them because they just want to share all the beautiful things they have at their disposal to play with. Very rarely does someone turn it in to a "competition", and all stashes are admired, large and small alike. We fibre people are a generally supportive (enabling?) bunch!
I like to pull mine out as a way of reminding myself what's lurking in those black bins on my shelves. A lot of stuff fits in those bins!
Even though I knit up a couple thousand yards of yarn last year, my stash didn't really seem to decrease (and I honestly didn't buy or spin much). I guess, in the grand scheme of stashes, 2,000 yards just isn't that much.
I've been reflecting a lot on who I am now as a knitter and who I want to be, and what I'm finding now is that my stash doesn't fit my dream anymore. That's not to say that I want to get rid of it all! I still really like what I have. Pulling it all out and touching it and looking at it reminded me of that. What it might mean though, is that I knit a good portion of this up and either gift it to people or sell things.
When I think about going forward with stashing yarn, I don't know that I will do it as much. I like the idea of having a small stash for those "must cast something on right now!" emergencies (they exist... trust me), but I also really like the idea of purchasing for specific projects. I feel like I'm past the days of "must try everything" and now I know what I like and what I want to make.
So if you're on my gifting list I hope you really need a toque this year. I've got a lot of single skeins of yarn to knit! (Sorry, the socks will probably all be for me.)
I like to pull mine out as a way of reminding myself what's lurking in those black bins on my shelves. A lot of stuff fits in those bins!
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| Back row, left to right: cotton, laceweight, worsted weight Front row, left to right: handspun, fingering weight, bulky weight |
Even though I knit up a couple thousand yards of yarn last year, my stash didn't really seem to decrease (and I honestly didn't buy or spin much). I guess, in the grand scheme of stashes, 2,000 yards just isn't that much.
I've been reflecting a lot on who I am now as a knitter and who I want to be, and what I'm finding now is that my stash doesn't fit my dream anymore. That's not to say that I want to get rid of it all! I still really like what I have. Pulling it all out and touching it and looking at it reminded me of that. What it might mean though, is that I knit a good portion of this up and either gift it to people or sell things.
When I think about going forward with stashing yarn, I don't know that I will do it as much. I like the idea of having a small stash for those "must cast something on right now!" emergencies (they exist... trust me), but I also really like the idea of purchasing for specific projects. I feel like I'm past the days of "must try everything" and now I know what I like and what I want to make.
So if you're on my gifting list I hope you really need a toque this year. I've got a lot of single skeins of yarn to knit! (Sorry, the socks will probably all be for me.)
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