What on earth was I thinking when I bought some of those yarns?
I have a stash, like many people it is hidden in a variety of places. Under the spare bed, in drawers, cupboards, etc. The honest truth is I really didn't know what was lurking in the "gentleman's cupboard" in the spare room. I knew it had some yarns, but my idea of what they were was very hazy.
A month or so back I'd gone through some of the stash to strip it down a bit, sending a load of oddments and unused acrylic to a friend who does knitting for charity. I have at least tried to keep the fibre stack manageable, but what was lurking in those plastic bags in the cupboard?
I knew about the many cones of machine knitting yarn (I really must dig that out sometime), but the rest of it....
A lot of it was an education. There was a lot of synthetic chunky and even mega chunky. Lots of 'astrakhan'. I think that some of these things were bought for peg weaving, but the mega chunky was bought because I had some hare-brained idea of knitting or crocheting hats with beards, and it was cheap....
Then there is the pompom yarn. I've knitted one scarf of it, but why did I think I needed another three balls? Cheap I suppose.
The eyelash yarn? In multicoloured? (two balls) and orange? (five!) What on earth can I do with those?
The 'funky fur'. In flame colour, walnut brown and black. Again, what can I possibly make with those?
The 'firefly' ribbon yarn. Very pretty, but somewhat dated now, and not easy to knit with.
So what else?
Oh yes, the pink and pink that I bought to try something for a friend. The barely started 'illusion' rug in grey and blue.
Over the next few months I'm going to try to bust this stash, one way or another.
My promise is not to buy any more yarn until I've stripped it down significantly.
UPDATE:
Well, I did strip some of the stuff out, I sent some to charity, friends took some. But...
The stash is no smaller than it was - perhaps even larger. I can't resist the lure of quality yarn in a sale. I might have nothing planned to knit with it, but I can always find something, I have far too many knitting books too.
