I was somewhat boggled last week to download my Ravelry stash spreadsheet and see that I have 255 skeins of yarn in my possession.
EEEEEE.
I've instituted a complete yarn purchase ban until the end of 2009. (Heh. We know how well the last one went.) I've been playing around with the idea of posting a stash reduction goal for 2009, but really have no idea what the basis of my projection would be. Historical yarn consumption? Number of potential knitting hours per week multiplied by probable rate? Number of probable felting projects involving double and triple-stranding?
I'll have to think on this a bit more. And what would the reward be?? More yarn seems, um, counter-productive...
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You are so funny! I like your musing on the possible negative side effects of rewarding yourself for stash reducting with...more yarn.
I support you in your yarn purchasing ban. I think I am also going to make using up my stash my main goal for 2009. But it always seems like I have these random amounts of yarn that aren't enough to make what I want to make. It's been better since I started actually buying yarn with a project in mind, even if I don't use the yarn for that exact project, because at least it's, say, a sweater's worth or whatever.
We always come back to this conversation re: stash!
Uh, I meant reduction, not reducting. Not really trying to invent a new word there.
Once the yarn purchase ban is over, I'm definitely going to focus on buying yarn with specific projects in mind, and buy sweater quantities whenever a high quality yarn comes up on Elann that I want to use. I do love the random single skeins, but even they can start to get unmanageable past a certain point.
(and you know I know it was just a typo...hee)
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