The State of the Stash
- At January 6, 2012
- By Alison
- In stash
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Remember me pledging the Year of Stash Accountability? well, if you don’t know where you’re starting from, how can you know where you’re going, let alone how far away it is? So I catalogued all the yarn and fibre in the house (note: the fleeces live in the shed. I’m saving them for warmer weather). All. of. it. With photographs. The pruriently inclined can check out my Ravelry stash for the full, gory details, but for those who prefer statistics, I present a summary here:
- I have 18.8kg of stash (fibre and yarn combined);
- Which includes 59.9km yarn (that’s 36.9 miles)
- Of the yarn, 14.057km are handspun, so 45.245km are millspun;
- I have over 12km of laceweight yarn, and 13.3km of sock weight yarn;
- Almost 17km of yarn (apart from lace and sock yarn) is specifically intended for weaving;
- I have almost twice as much unspun fibre, by weight, as I have handspun yarn (5.5 kg vs. 2.81 kg). And I thought I could get it all spun up by the end of the year!!
Wow. I don’t think I need to buy anything else for a while, do you?!
- oooo, shiny…
Mary de B
A shawl a month could cut down on that laceweight. You’d still be somewhat overstocked in the other departments, though. Just knit a shawl a month, a pair of socks a month, a sweater a month….
I meant to knit a pair of socks a month last year, and didn’t get very far. Now… I mean to knit a sock a month, and we’ll see how that goes.
gayle
Looks like you’re set for a while, as long as you don’t get snowed in…
