No Pictures, Just Resolutions

I have lots of stuff going on, but I've been fighting a cold all week, and have no pictures to show you.  If I had sat down last night to share it all with you, it would be an official Wednesday Night Bullet Post, but I guess this is just picture-less potpourri.

• I've been doing lots of organizing of my stash!  I picked up a couple of those under-the-bed storage containers, and spent several hours this week photographing, entering into Ravelry, and packing away all the various yarn that has been hanging around my bedroom.  Even I didn't realize that I had quite so much yarn.  Yikes.  And it's not even all in my Ravelry page yet, so if you look at my stash, realize that's just the tip of the iceberg.

• On top of all this yarn storage, I succumbed to a sale at Webs this week!  I was really taken by the preview of IK Summer 2008, especially the Folded Cowl Tee, which is just a tee, but somehow captured my fancy.  It seemed meant to be that Webs had the Vicki Howell Craft yarn on sale, and the pattern called for it, and I was thinking about ordering anyway....

• With the realization of how much yarn I really do have in my stash, plus the 3 garments worth currently winging it's way from Webs to here (you know how it is, if you're ordering anyway, it would be just silly not to get a little of this, and a little of that...).  Anyway.  I am making a semi-official declaration here - I AM NOT GOING TO BUY ANY MORE YARN THIS YEAR.  Please, don't tell me about the amazing sales I'm missing, or the de-stashing other people are doing at cut-rate bargain prices.  This is going to be tough, but I think it will be good for me.  The obvious exceptions are things like needing a bit more to finish a project, etc.  Plus, I'm going to be a bit busy with the new baby and all that good stuff, so I just need to find healthy ways of dealing with my stress and exhaustion that don't include online ordering of yarn.

• Even though I've been sick and grumpy, knitting still has been happening.  Sock #2 of the Returning to Earth socks is about halfway there, and I'm almost finished a One Skein Wonder I cast on in great hope that warm weather was about to appear.  (It wasn't.)  Plus, I have the super-secret gift for my mum, and the never ending hoodie on the needles, too.  I'm very happy to say, that out of 4 current projects, 3 of them are from stash yarn.  Pretty good, eh?  Now, we just have to keep it up until the end of the year! 

Comments

[Lorette]

You're a stronger woman than I am. I've been a dismal failure at my resolution to not buy yarn. The ticker on my blog at this point is just a joke! And there is no way on earth that I'm putting all my yarn on Ravelry for everyone to see.

[marianne]

Heee. You're so sweet and funny!
I've fallen off the wagon a few times but always with 50-75% discounted yarns, sometimes even bigger discount (there was a garage sale last early summer, shhhhh) but the stash is nearly embarrassing except I'm clearly needing to work on that 'sweater's worth' amount better.... ah well.... not any time soon!
I won't tell you about sales... nope... not out of me :^)

[marti]

i'll join you with that! but books and patterns are still fair game.

[Colleen]

Yeah! good for you! that's progress, one wip at a time!
bummer about the cold... hope you are feeling better.

[Tammy]

I'm planning on the folded cowl tee myself... with some stash yarn! But I'm making no such declarations on future purchases! ;)

[Patty]

I've got to take a re-look at that IK...Your sock looks terrific!

[roggey]

Good luck with the resolutions! I'm having difficulty sticking to mine, but then I work in a yarn shop on the weekends...