The Stash Unmasked
Yesterday, Carolyn asked how long the yarn for the new lace shawl ( Lotus Blossom Lace ) had been in the stash, and whether it was "old" stash or "new" stash, which made me curious about the stash in general. The yarn I'm using was one of my exceptions in 2009. I had promised my mother a shawl for her retirement gift, and for unknown reasons, ordered THREE 880-yard hanks of Knitpicks Bare Laceweight. I ended up using just a little over one hank, so the second hank was justifiable, but that third one really smacks of abuse of a yarn-purchase-exception. Which is sort of why I want to use it up. However, the oldest yarn in my stash might be this one: which I believe I bought before I bought my first house, which I think was 2003. I also have 11 skeins of it in bright pink, and the only reason it hasn't been knit up in the past is that some rocket scientist at Jaeger yarn company thought it was completely unnecessary to list such useless details as yar...