How much yarn do you have in your stash?

You don’t have to give me the answer, but think about your stash truthfully!

• Do you have more than you could use in your lifetime? Or at least a few years!
• Always find a reason to buy more?
• Are you continually re-organising your storage to squeeze more in to your stash?
• Do you hoard your most expensive high quality yarn for a special pattern you are yet to find!
  • – but when you see it, you will know it, and you will be so ready, with that yarn!

Hmm! Sorry, to say it, but, you may just be like myself – a bit of (or maybe a lot of)

a yarn addict!

That’s it!

I said it out loud – “I have way more yarn than I need, and I have a “super expensive collection” of alpaca/silk mixed skeins in a variety of neutral hues “treated myself”; that I may never, ever use!”

 

Let’s talk about when, and why we purchase.

For me, yarn browsing/shopping is like an entire hobby in itself.

It’s a bit like grocery shopping when you are hungry. You get to the check-out with a basket of food, with sell-by dates; that you cannot possibly eat in time.

The same happens for me, when I go to the yarn shop.

I don’t have any particular pattern or project in my mind – so I am completely open; to any type of weight, brand, colour, fibre mix; that just jumps out at me.

Of course, as I don’t know what the yarn might turn into, I am also purchasing whatever quantity I can afford, or think, will be sufficient for my imaginary project.

I am shopping blindly, without any consideration for what may already be in my stash at home.

Generally, we all have a colour palette we prefer, and this is often swayed by;

• our mood on the day,
• what colour we may have dressed in for our outing to the yarn shop,
• or something that has triggered a feeling, for a must have colour
• of the feel, its just so soft and silky we have to have it

We leave the shop feeling excited and happy, swinging our bag of skeins.

Home!

Then,

we get home, and we start to feel a bit guilty; not much, just a little, at this stage.

What do you do with your yarn when you get home? Do you leave your purchase in the bag? Or, do you try and find somewhere to store it, with your other yarn?

Do you start immediately thinking what pattern it would suit? or even what type of crochet accessory or garment it could be made into?

 

My confession; the more expensive the yarn was, the more likely it will be, to make it to the ” I am a luxurious, expensive yarn, awaiting a very special pattern collection box”  –  you’ve got one of these too, right? Almost a secret stash.

You tell yourself; “I will make something for myself!”, because the finished product would be too expensive to sell for a profit, you wouldn’t be able to justify the price to the potential customer.

Then,

it becomes just like that special outfit or shoe purchase, “you know what I am talking about” that you have hidden away in your wardrobe.

The week’s pass you by, and the longer you leave it, before that first wearing, the more likely it is that you will never wear it.

• You don’t have the occasion,
• I just need to lose a little weight, before it looks good,
• It’s the wrong time of year to wear it.

And there it hangs; making you feel guilty, so … you move it to a different wardrobe so you don’t have to look at it.

Isn’t it just the same thing with your expensive yarn?  – it stays right there, in the special collection box, hidden away in your stash, waiting patiently for that special pattern.

Sometimes, you even forget it’s there, until you find yourself, repeating the purchase sequence.

Another day comes, when you were, so yarn hungry;  you get home, you go to the special collection box in your stash, with your latest skein, and then  …….?

Do you feel better?

Feels good doesn’t it? Confessing?

You are not alone! there are thousands of us yarn addicts, we like to hang out in the aisles of Hobby Lobby, Jo-Ann’s Michael’s, Hobbycraft, and many other independent yarn producers.

Some of us like to crochet, some of us like to knit, some of us like to do both (this is classified as a “super-addict”)

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