Tuesday, 18 January 2011

My stash is making me angry and sick


This is approx 2/3 of my yarn stash it took up about 3 black sacks and 6 cones. I added up how much id spent on yarn and it made me a little sick when i looked at it here i realsied how wasteful my stash was too me, id often just pop into a shop and pick up a skein of something yummy then be stumped as to what to do with it. No more! I signed up for a cold sheep challenge of 4 months..normally id by yarn about every 2-3 weeks so this whould be a real challenge for me. Im proud to say ive not broken it once so far , even though ive been very very tempted with my local shops yarn sales and a friends new dye ways in her etsy shop, Ive stayed strong, i was weighing all my finished articules up until 3rd week in december id gotton to about 4600g used seeing as i mostly knit in dk which the balls usually come in 100g (the ones i use) thats 46 balls of yarn gone already. Ive also been having great fun stash busting using magic balling and wool eatting blankets (got a thing for blankets at the moment, i have 4 on the go!) Feeling a little proud to say my stash is now down to about 1 black sack and 5 cones..but i might well continue with an extra month on top of my cold sheep end of april instead of the beginning, i think i have enough to make it last! Ive also discovered i can do a lot with things i already have , and life has become more about need than want at the moment..not a bad thing to change!

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