A Little Distraction

The good news is, I didn't cast on anything new. The bad news is, I didn't work on my Ravelympics entries. The back of a toddler sweater was really close to using up a ball of yarn (I am so pathetic sometimes), so I worked on it until I finished ball 78 for the year
then promptly abandoned it for Fir Cone,
which also finished up a skein of yarn--bringing me to 79 balls and 12,662 yards used from the stash for the year. I would LOVE to keep going on Fir Cone--it's a scratchy wool & really hot and just the sort of thing I am generally dumb enough to fall in love with in August--but that ball of yarn was the last one I had, so until the new yarn arrives, it is on hold. The good news is that the 90-day spending ban is finally over, and I have already ordered the yarn. I decided for purposes of the Year of the Stash project, if I started a project in good faith and subsequently ran out of yarn, I could buy the yarn needed to finish the project provided I kept working on it. Because you know that by the 8th month I would have been converting cardigans into robes and socks into longies just to be able to buy yarn if there was a loophole. The loophole is, therefore, closed but the yarn has shipped and will be here soon!!!!!

Now to just convince myself to work on that poncho until it arrives.......

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Janet said…
I do the same thing Toni, work on the warmest yarn items I have in the summer, lol. Go figure, of course, it couldn't be because winter will soon be upon us and we want our warm knitted items to wear, lol. WTG on 2 more balls being used.
Janet
August 18, 2008 at 8:20 PM
Daniele said…
Wow, you are doing great! Good for you. I have never seen so many WIPS being finished so fast! I bet the pile is a lot smaller now. We need to see a new picture....
August 19, 2008 at 1:22 PM
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