3 Months To Go

I'm in the 9th month of The Year of the Stash, and to date I've used up this much yarnplus 6 skeins of this which I didn't include in the picture because I don't have anything even remotely similar to represent it in the picture.
That's a lot of yarn. 13,885 yards and 87 balls/skeins/hanks.

Tonight I am choosing to bask in the glory of having used up a really large amount of yarn from the stash, and I'm completely ignoring the knowledge that all that yarn really didn't even make a visible dent in the stash. We with stash issues must cling to what we can.....

Comments

Anonymous said…
Bask away, dear. You've earned it!
September 7, 2008 at 1:15 AM
Megs said…
Thanks for popping over to see me. I am feeling better, thanks. Your year of the stash is totally inspiring me. I think my husband may even send you a thank you note.
September 7, 2008 at 6:25 AM
Janet said…
Fantastic accomplishment! Keep up the stash busting. Just think, if you were not doing a stash busting, all of those skeins you have used up would still be in the closet/on the floor/under the bed, wherever you could hide them, lol.
Janet
September 7, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Ilix said…
Way to go!! That IS a huge dent.... the problem I find is that stash bins allow the squishing of more yarn into them... so when you pull it out and don't put it back the other yarn just relaxes into that space so it doesn't look like any is really gone! LOL
September 8, 2008 at 2:20 PM
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