Just In Time

I'll admit, I was wavering a bit on the continued cold sheeping.  It's fun to buy yarn.  I like buying yarn.  I had even started to ask myself, "What would be the harm?"

So, it was a perfect weekend to have to lug around a large percentage of the yarn stash.  This:
is now next to my bed, which is sort of like having a big burly bouncer-type man at the door to a yarn shop, since most of my yarn is bought online.  It looms over me out of the corner of my eye--just a little bit scary--and so far has kept me from even LOOKING at yarn online.

This:
is Andy's side of the bedroom.  Perhaps less frightening, but I think it makes a pretty good case for not buying any more fabric for a while as well.  Especially since the bulk of the fabric stash is elsewhere.....

 I was excited to see the walls for the first time in about 5 years:
 
though the thought wasn't exciting enough to keep me from doing extra exercises at the gym simply because I didn't want to hurry home to packing up the sewing room.  That, I think, is a first......

Thanks to Andy, two of the walls are now a lovely shade of green,
including this wall,
which is where the new shelving will be.  I'm torn between being excited that I will have a lot more storage (and storage that doesn't teeter dangerously, which is very important to those of us who have recently had yarn dropped on our heads), but there is a bit of fear involved that perhaps all the stash won't fit, and if it does by some miracle fit with room to spare, that I will eventually add enough to the stash to fill it all.

Fortunately, being overwhelmed by my stash has kicked my crafting into high gear, and I was up late on Sunday night working on the sleeves,
which are now to the raglan shaping--or where I'm putting it, as the pattern called for 20.5 inches to the underarm shaping, which is really quite insane as I haven't yet met a woman with arms that long--and which have EACH now used up a 175-yard ball of yarn, which makes me feel like I've made a rather serious dent in the yarn stash.  I'm now onto the fronts, which is where the actual cabling and design will be, but I expect it to go pretty quickly as the rest of the sweater is just sitting there waiting to be joined to it.  Whoo, boy!  When I get this sweater finish, there will be SUCH a big dent in that yarn stash!  Whew!  Those shelves will look positively BARE, I tell you!

(Delusional?  Yes, I know.  But motivating--and might even keep my mind off the impending moving of all this stuff BACK into the sewing room................)

Comments

bittenbyknittin said…
I think your room is going to look great, but I have a few questions:
Even knitting at your current, accelerated rate, will you be able to knit through the stash in your lifetime? If not, are you willing to not buy any significant amount of yarn for the rest of your life? Have you considered selling part of the stash so you *can* buy new yarn? My stash is nothing - NOTHING - compared to yours, but it still weighs on me. And yet, I don't want to part with it. Knit it, yes, but not part with it.
February 21, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Meredith said…
Love the green walls. I wish I had a craft room, oh I would be soooo thrilled. My stash is really getting a bit low, I know that is the last thing you want to hear. But you have a great room and I don't so I think we are even,
Meredith
February 21, 2012 at 10:19 AM
RobinH said…
@Abby- Yes! This is exactly my problem. Once yarn comes in- even if it's yarn that's given to me and I didn't actually choose it myself- I don't want to part with it except to knit it.

And Toni- according to Rav, you have 238 skeins of yarn. You've averaged around 70 skeins of yarn a year for the last three years. So three more years of cold sheeping would put you down to under 6 months worth of yarn. Um. That's probably not as encouraging as I meant it to be, but it does mean that you're nowhere near SABLE. (Unless the remaining yarn is disproportionately composed of high yardage skeins, of course.)

I'm actually jonesing to go yarn shopping but I am determined to drive the stash lower before I do. Not least because I expect to do more sewing this year.
February 21, 2012 at 1:59 PM
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