I finished the socks for Aunt Nancy yesterday; it took just about a month. Now I need to get them shipped off to her, preferably before her next chemo treatment.
Knowing I was going to be finished with the socks was making me giddy with the idea of starting a new project! I've been searching on Ravelry and "favoriting" and queuing lots of patterns, but nothing was really making my heart beat faster. I have had a hankering lately for some simple, mindless knitting, so I searched the KnitPicks website hoping for a washcloth kit that would come with yarn and patterns. They had a few, but I was wanting some autumnal colors, and of course, those kits were sold out. I REALLY, REALLY want to make a sweater that I could pull on everyday - so something lightweight and neutral colored. Over the summer I was fixated on doing so with stash yarn, but I've accepted that I don't have enough yarn of any one color to accomplish the task. So I have a few patterns in mind, the latest one I've found uses KnitPicks yarn, so at least that would be affordable : )
But before I start anything, I made the decision to keep my knitting promises to myself. I headed to the yarn room (the spare bedroom) to clean out my project bags and do some general yarn organization so that I can start fresh. That basic organizing transformed into a multi-hour complete yarn stash re-organization, but it was well worth the time.
Last summer, in an effort to pare down my stash, I chose about half of the skeins and put them up for sale on Ravelry. Unfortunately, Ravelry meesages don't come to your email, so I had to log into Ravelry daily to see if anyone was interested. After two months of checking I gave up. The next time I checked was during March 2020. There were two "bites", but there was no way I was going to risk going to the post office to mail my yarn to strangers.
Then during stay-at-home orders this Spring, I became obsessed with trying to knit through my whole stash including the skeins I had set aside to sell. So today I recombined and re-inventoried every skein I own. All of my yarn is in the same container and is up-to-date in Ravelry! I'm glad I took the time to do this because now I don't feel the need to buy new yarn; I'm going to knit what I have : )
I organized all partially-used skeins into bags by their yarn weight.
These are the two biggest bags. I've started the "Coziest Memories" blanket with the fingering weight yarn, and now I am on the look out for a project for the aran weights.
The great things about scrap projects is it will use up ALL of the yarn and gives me something to knit when I'm between projects.
