I am glad to be here working away on my stash with everyone! I'm a PhD
student working on my dissertation, so knitting is a distraction I allow
myself. Back in April, I decided to go on a yarn diet and only knit
from my collection. I inventoried all my yarn with a 3x5 index card for
each skein or group of the same color and set off knitting. In May, I
knit cotton cloths and did great reducing the number of skeins and
partial skeins I had. June was to be wool month. But, I sort of fell
off the wagon and started knitting cloths again (there was a bit of
financial motivation here) and I purchased yarn in the colors that were
being requested. As part of this evolving project, I was asked to
create some felted bowls to coordinate with the cloths. More yarn
acquired. This yarn is not intended to stay in my stash (I prefer
calling it a collection), but as of today it has not been knit up. In
the spirit of full disclosure, here is a photo of the yarn I purchased
in June and still have as of July 1:
I
am going to use the checkbook option because I really want to reduce
total number of skeins and I have plenty of projects to keep me busy for
months using the yarn I have on hand. My first goal is to use five
skeins in July. I know this seems like a small goal, but I have alot on
my plate this month. In case you are counting, there ought to be 44
skeins in this photo.
On the needles: 1 cloth, ribby sweater
Pending arrival of beads: mystery stole 3
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