I have boxes in my office closet of fabrics of vintages from my undergrad years to current. I have beads and pheasant hackles, art paper and jewelry findings, paints and markers, clay tools and macrame cord.
The yarn lust didn't overwhelm me immediately upon learning to purl. I'd learned to knit in grade school, but wasn't able to wrap my mind around purling until I went at it Continental style two years ago. The yarn for my first few projects came from my closet boxes (yes, I already had some yarn from college days as well as my Mother-in-law's antiquated stash) and JoAnn's. Then I discovered real yarn stores and all hope of abstaining from gratuitous yarn purchases was dead.
Now looking at my stash page on Ravelry, it shows I have 175 individual yarns stashed, 30 "used", 1 that I'm willing to trade or sell (anybody out there want 5 skeins bright red-orange eyelash yarn?) and 8 "traded/sold/gifted". Which makes a grand total of 214.
Geeze louise!
What's really sad is I think it's contagious...
She's got a thing for alpaca. It's a good thing cats don't carry credit cards.
5 comments:
I have escaped yarn lust, for the most part, since I have not really progressed past baby hats and dishcloths. Keeping my skills modest probably saves me hundreds of dollars! But fabric lust, that's another story!
You have made me feel so much better!
Thanks for the info/offer re: knitting lessons. I haven't had a chance to visit with the daughter about it yet.
"...sight, touch and other senses." other senses??? Has the yarn lust gone so far that you are tasting the yarn now? ;) Ok, I suppose you can love the smell of certain yarns...I think I'll go home and give my stash a sniff!
I can soooo relate..............
yes, it is a sickness!
Yarn lust is definitely contagious. Yarn stores are dangerous places, only to be entered by the courageous. But, everyone has to collect something, why not yarn? I don't even want to try to count my stash.
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