Comments on: Stash – How Much is Too Much?

By: robin

robin — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:31:51 +0000

I am a NEW lurker (which didn’t last long – someone on another blog mentioned that a lot of yarn that calls to us is just so beautiful/original/great texture that it’s okay if you never knit. BTW – just found your store today too – love it – can’t wait to get my order.

Hmmm – as a matter of fact, some of the yarn in my stash was bought for a project that was never done, not because I found it particularly “alluring”.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:29:10 +0000

I believe that the only stash yarn I have with a purpose is my sock yarn. All other, especially those bought while “on sale,” have no purpose. They sure do look pretty sitting in their baskets. I swear, if I had more knitting time, I would not have this problem.

By: sherry

sherry — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:41:04 +0000

OH, have you seen the claudia’s linen or mohair yarn?? I LOVE her colorways. I am more of a santa fe type of gal.
re the yarn stash??ya,I am trying to figure out what I can do w/myself… I want to NOT add to it, but hard w/the fall yarns coming out..

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:57:43 +0000

I, too, was once like you: buying yarn for specific projects (silly us!). I quickly learned it didn’t always work because I often changed my mind about the project (after I got the yarn unfortunately) and didn’t want the yarn anymore for “that” project – and sometimes not for any project! I now buy yarn just because I like it and, of course, for projects. I am going to purge out the yarn I will never, ever use so I’ll have room for more yarn. No sense hanging onto what I should never have bought! I don’t count sock yarn as actual stash because the yarn will be socks, and I can always squeeze in a hank of sock yarn somewhere! (p.s. Got my order today. Great service and I love my items! Thanks so much!! I’ll be back!)

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:10:51 +0000

I’m a little afraid of my yarn that has no known purpose yet. I can’t figure out what to do with it! Sock yarn doesn’t count, of course. I can always make plain-vanilla socks. But 2 skeins of ribbon yarn, and some other lovely stuff I bought with no pattern in mind… I’ve had this stuff for at least a year, and I’m still puzzling over it. Most of my stash (other than the sock yarn) was purchased for specific projects. Unfortunately, some of it has been around so long, I wonder what appealed to me about the pattern! I figure I started stashing about 12 years ago, though I have been knitting for about 32 years.