Confessions of a fiber addict

[gnomi]

I have way too many things on needles right now. I have projects I've been intending to finish for over a year now. I have gloves that I'd intended for myself that I got bored during (I'm doing the fingers) of the first one and set aside. I cast on a new sock a couple of days ago to take with me to Maine over Pesach.

And yesterday I acquired from magid some new yarn of indeterminate weight and fiber content (though it may be some relative of this). So what did I do within the hour of acquiring it? Cast it on some empty size 2 DPNs to do a test swatch.

Stop me before I swatch again!

Comments

[farwing.livejournal.com]

You are not a true fiber addict until you start spinning your own yarn...

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I have no wheel and I must spin.

[lordavon.livejournal.com]

Keep swatching!

I refuse to stop other people as they make my yarn addiction look sane in comparision.

I hope.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Heh.

I don't think I can actually stop.

I liked how the swatch came out, though.

[perpet.livejournal.com]

Now, now, there's an easy way to fix this. You should just mail me some of your yarn so that you're not tempted to work on any more projects. I think this is a fine idea.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

::snerk::

I know you crochet; do you have a yarn stash of your own?

[perpet.livejournal.com]

Egads and how. Two crates, and a small collection of those cheap storage drawers from Hell-Mart. I also just had to buy a new basket to keep in the living room for the yarn stash for the current line up of projects. [Finishing a hat, then comes a shawl, then posibly a skirt.] I'm trying desperately to only keep yarn in the living room on an as-needed basis or else everything kind of goes to hell.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have two knitting/yarn bins, one upstairs and one downstairs in storage. The upstairs one is active projects on needles. The downstairs one is for stash yarn. For a while it was all upstairs, and it was taking over.

[perpet.livejournal.com]

We just tidied up the living room over the weekend. The far corner of our couch had been taken over with bags of yarn. I tend to buy with projects in mind, and of course, once I have the yarn, I want to make the project, so every skein of new yarn for about three months was being tossed in the same corner.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

That compulsion to start a project as soon as you have the yarn is quite familiar to me.

It's part of why I have so much on needles at any given time.

[perpet.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky in that I only have two of any kind of hook, and as I tend to work off H and I hooks the most often, I can't run a lot of projects at once.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

My needle collection grows in spurts. I've got various lengths of various sizes, plus the straight/circular/double pointed of each of a numerous sizes.