I bought yarn yesterday! How surprising right? We went to a yarn store in a rather… *ahem*… ritzy part of town. One of those yarn stores that refuses to carry a single skien of yarn under $10. I usually stick my favorite LYS who carries everything I love and doesn’t kill me on markup. Anyway, we were in the area and I couldn’t resist. I was about to leave the unreasonably priced yarn store when I saw this…
It was too eye catching to pass up and I have the perfect project for it! So I got it home and went to stash it, because really, I have enough on the needles as it is, so I needed to put it away for a few weeks. I opened my stash boxes and found that there was no more room. At all. I thought about stuffing it into my project bag but that too is full, both the knitting and crochet bags. So of course I started thinking of places I could tuck it away but my cat has a knack of finding those things.
Luckily DH and I had just bought two brand new 21 gallon plastic tubs for our winter cloths and blankets. Well somehow all the blankets fit into just one tub. So I suggested to DH that his winter cloths would probably fit into the 12 gallon tub that my stash was currently residing in… Amazingly he agreed! So my stash migrated into a larger bucket, and while I was moving it I decided to move all the acrylic into one tub and all my precious natural fibers into another. Since rarely any project requires both.
Anyway, organizing the natural fibers was easy, but the mounds of acrylic yarn I seem to have acquired was a little daunting. I tried to organize it by color, but I barely fit it all into the new tub. I knew this would be the last time for a while that I had it all out on the floor so I layered it into the tub, putting what I’d probably never use at the bottom and working my way up in progressive neediness. Some people might ask, why not just toss or donate the stuff you’d never use? Haha, those people are clearly not hoarders. I can’t throw it away! In five years I might need that non-descript scratchy acrylic yarn that my grandmother gave me! And the Simply Soft might actually become a baby blanket one day! I can’t just get rid of it!
I am reminded of the yarn purge of ‘05 when I dug through my then much larger stash (if you can believe it) and pulled out all the acrylic yarn I owned and some really good stuff I thought I might never use, bagged it up and sent it packing to a local charity. I didn’t mind donating it, I wanted someone to use it… but wouldn’t you know it? A few years later I was actually looking for that heathered pink Wool-Ease and it was no where to be found! Because I had gotten rid of it! I face palmed and wished I had kept every scrap of yarn I’d ever had. Now I keep everything. Even three yards of that gorgeous laceweight that I will never use. One day I might need it. I might need to put a pretty edge on something and 3 yards will be exactly enough.
