Stash and more stash

Now that I've had to face my stash I find that I have some yarns that I really want to knit. I just have no idea what to knit with them. The yarns are Idena Flamenco (which I bought five years ago) and Rowan Cashsoft DK in Sweet (I adore this color). Flamenco is a boucle in a beautiful sunset colorway, deep purples, vivid oranges and reds.

So, now I must face my pattern stash. I have books here and there, with various slips of paper marking patterns that I like; I have some printed patterns in clear sleeves that I'm put in random order in a notebook; there are purchased pattern pdf files in one folder on my computer, but not organized; and the biggest mess of all are my bookmarks of favorite patterns on the internet.

Is there a simple solution? For now, mine is to put them back in the stash. And start a new project with summer cotton yarns. Hey! the temps are already in the 90's here. Which means that I can buy more yarn, right? Because I don't have any cotton in my stash.

heh heh!

What are you knitting this Spring/Summer?

Jen, I accept and meet your challenge!

(Another Flash Your Stash Entry below this one.)


TA DA!
Presenting my stash!

It's not that impressive, I guess, but it sure takes up more space than I wish that it did. All told, there's enough yarn there for about 10 projects and at least 1,000 scarves. That's not a typo. I have a bad habit of buying single balls of yarn just so I can see how it knits up.

BUSTED!

:)
pearl

April 1-Flash Your Stash Day!

Yes, thanks to the good folks at Knitty, today is "Flash Your Stash!" Day. While my stash really hasn't grown a lot over the past 5 years, it's still kinda on the large size because: a.) I hardly knit a thing over the past two years (knitting slump) and b.) I'm the world's slowest knitter.

If you think you're up to looking at all the class pictures of Ms. Yarnaholic's School for Wayward Skeins, just click on the thumbnail below to go to my Flickr photoset.



And you can find a complete list of all the participants in today's "Flash Your Stash!" here.

(P.S. Hahaha...I'm laughing now. I thought I'd managed to flash all my stash. Five minutes ago I found a canvas bag in the living room with three more projects in it!)

knitting conditions

With a daughter home on Spring Break, a sick cat, tons of rehearsals and concerts, not to mention temperatures in the mid-80°'s, there's not much knitting going on around here. I still have about 4 or 5 projects on the needles and yarn for at least 10 others, but no knitting time.

I must finish a pair of tip-less gloves, though. I knit quite a few fingerless versions (at least 10 pairs) this winter because they became quite the 'rage' with Molly's friends, and I still owe a pair to Arthur who wants tip-less gloves. I knit the fingerless gloves with two needles because I really wanted the stripes to match up, but I think it'd be best to knit the tip-less in the round. (I'm using the pattern from Ann Budd's the knitter's handy book of Patterns. I did a google search for jogless stripes in the round and came up with a few solutions, none of which really do it for me. Do any of you have tips for this?

With our weather conditions here in the desert I'm glad that I'm not knitting anything larger than gloves. ;)