Tea and Cakes

So, last week at knitting group we were discussing stash, and how some of us may possibly have enough yarn. This is of course until Laura arrived with the news that Kidsilk Haze was on sale at the woollen mills (”It’s practically free”) and everyone started planning to head there after the group. I’m immune to the appeal of kid silk haze as silk (except for tussah silk) isn’t vegetarian, so I was spared that particular peer pressure. Anyway, the discussion moved on to how our non-knitting living companions seem to feel that we have an unreasonable amount of wool, so I suggested a Dublin Knitters flash-your-stash, to show that actually we’re all the same. Now that the draw for more yarn that Diane was offering has been finished I can safely post mine knowing I won’t be adding to it.

The stash-flashing has thrown up a few things.
Firstly, when I came home and mentioned it the response I got was that “Oh, I believe you all have huge amounts of wool. It’s like some collective delusion about how much you need.” Ok, so this wouldn’t help me then.

Secondly, a few people have been a bit shy about posting theirs, as it might be a bit overwhelming. Interestingly, this has been accompanied by the defence that actually they only have lots of odd balls of things left over from projects so it’s not like they really have any at all. Yes. Right. I won’t name and shame, you know who you are.

Thirdly, a few people have flashed theirs and, well, you guys need to buy more yarn.

I wasn’t brave enough to empty out my boxes, especially as I did it all fairly recently for Ravelry. However, I have collected most of it in to one place, so here you go:

The other side of the wardrobe has my fabric and sewing machine and a few other bits and pieces in.

For more detail, some of which has now been used up or given away, you can see my flickr set.

It’s not tooooo bad, but the cones of laceweight don’t help. I do have enough for several sweaters. That’s enough yarn in general, not enough laceweight. I do have enough laceweight to make several sweaters, but seriously, sweaters from laceweight yarn? No chance.