Today I spent some time checking boxes of yarn here. I am not saying there are a lot of boxes, but if I knit ten copy paper boxes of yarn into projects per year, I will have this knit down when I retire. There is this much at home.
It is time that I got serious about knitting down my stash. Lately I have been thinking about it like paying off my bills. Both need to be done. Unfortunately, I cannot give away bills as easily as I can give away yarn.
This will stretch my creativity as I will have to fit the project to the yarn rather than the other way around. Some yarn may get re-homed. The project I bought it for may no longer be something I want to do. I may not care to wear the color anymore. There can be any number of reasons that some skeins have lost their luster.
This blog was originally started as a record of knitting out the stash. It has grown instead. Time to turn it around! Well, after I use my Needlework Unlimited gift card......
In the many, many years I have been knitting, the things I like to knit have evolved. The fibers I can and want to knit with have also changed. What has not changed is the ability of of color and texture to seduce my mind and fingers.
While I knit because I like the finished product, I have begun to have more of an understanding and appreciation of process knitting. The yarn slipping through my fingers is soothing (most of the time) and the repetitive motion slows down the crazies. When I miss knitting for a day, I notice it.
Let us begin...the real journey to the center of the stash.....
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