Stash Flash
(Or, how much yarn do I have to “Shut Up and Knit,” exactly?)
I have a lot of yarn. One of my New Year’s goals was to shut up and knit a good portion of my damn yarn. Problem is, I don’t know exactly how much I have. I have a lot of it cataloged on Ravelry, but all that does is show me pretty pictures. I can see a lot of it in my Rubbermaid drawer tower, but I’m kind of like a relapsing alcoholic. I hide yarn everywhere – in shelves in my closet, in bags under my bed, in my car, in shoe boxes. It’s everywhere. I kind of like it that way.
Recently, Amanda-Lloyd took pictures of her stash for me, and after showing them to Scott, he asked me to do the same. He’s been telling me for a while now that I really don’t need any more yarn for a few months. I’ve been telling him to leave me alone; I don’t have a problem. (I’m clean, narc!) But when I pulled out my stash to photograph it, I had to concede that maybe – just maybe – I do have a problem. Click on the thumbnails to see all of it. It’s kind of scary.
There it is. That’s just about everything, except Moonwalker, which was drying in the shower when these photos were taken. Even the unspun fiber. I have a queen-size bed, for what it’s worth. That is a TON of yarn, guys. In the interest of full disclosure, I have 16,514.5 yards of yarn. Really, it’s more than that, because I didn’t add all the partial skeins of Simply Soft and stuff in there. I can only estimate the fiber, and I’m gonna say at least four or five pounds.
I am shocked and RuPauled.
I declare a yarn embargo. Nothing comes in until at least two thousand yards of that yarn and maybe two pounds of that fiber vanishes. This is getting a little ridiculous.
Gotta go. Apparently I need to knit forever. ;)
January 10th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
That is AMAZING! I think I need to show my boyfriend those pics whenever he says I have too much yarn, just so he’ll shut up and let me increase my stash. My problem is that I have my queue all planned in my head…but then I see more patterns that just call for yarn I don’t have and I have to go out and stock up. In the event I actually buy the pattern that I want to knit and that I bought the yarn for in the first place.
xx
January 10th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
shocked and RuPauled! :D