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12 March 2006

skinny-ing up the stash

let me preface this post by saying that i don't spend a whole lot of money on yarn, and i don't buy anything like large quantities of yarn very often.  having said that, this past week, i spent more than i'm accustomed to on expanding my stash.  On wednesday, i picked up a skien of Henry's Attic Kona , which i'm totally in love with, will buy more of, and have already dyed 1/2 of (see the "underwhelming" yarn).  on thursday, i priced sock yarn for the Austrian Knee Socks from the book Socks, Socks, Socks , discovered that, to buy it from the LYS was going to cost damn near $30, and then thought "hey!  Knit Picks has the Color Your Own merino sock weight that would work PERFECTLY" and at only $8, that's something i can do.   enter  friday, and i was overcome with the desire to knit the Deep V-Argyle vest  designed by Eunny Jang.  add more yarn to that Knit Picks order....6 skiens each of Fog and Hollyberry Merino Style.  so, that's a lot of yarn to be adding to the stash for me.  granted, the bulk of it already has projects, which is good.  anyway, moved by a fit of guilt, i Catalogued my stash on a spread sheet.  that is right.  i took pictures of every yarn, put that and all the pertanient info into a stash spread sheet.  let me tell you, it freakin' RULES.  i think that i'm going to carry it around with me to knitting groups to show off.  i may even post it here if i can suss it out-cause it rocks that much.  such the little knitting geek i am.  this compiling of the stash has added to my guilt and i am now officially on a yarn diet.  i want to reduce the stash by 1/2 (i'm thinking that i should shoot for 1/2 of the yardage total, cause i have a lot of lace and sock weight yarns, and that would be sneaky).  i wonder how long that'll last?

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Ha! I did that too... only I took pictures and put them up on my Flickr with the yarn info in there too.. It is so nice. I know how much I have and what it looks like and what weight...

organization can be good

Posted by: NessieNoodle | 12 March 2006

wow! A spreadsheet?? I'm impressed!!

Posted by: Amanda Cathleen | 14 March 2006