pathological knitting habit
Feb. 21st, 2006 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sevI've begun hoarding yarn scraps. I just can't bring myself to throw them away. Small balls of yarn, in case something I'm knitting needs a bit of color. Four-foot-long strands left over from projects. I even get a twinge when I throw away a six-inch scrap I cut off a finished project.
Maybe I need to get one of those books of different kinds of stitches, or the stitch-a-day calendar, or something, so I can knit up these scraps into little sample-squares. Then I can stow them in a bag with my gauge swatches, which I keep threatening to stitch together into a blanket-or-something. That might save the hat I'm knitting for Z from any potential experimentation.
It's not like I don't have enough projects, though. I have plenty of projects, and I have plenty of yarn. Plenty! I just have this ... yarn-hoarding affliction. How embarassing.
Maybe I need to get one of those books of different kinds of stitches, or the stitch-a-day calendar, or something, so I can knit up these scraps into little sample-squares. Then I can stow them in a bag with my gauge swatches, which I keep threatening to stitch together into a blanket-or-something. That might save the hat I'm knitting for Z from any potential experimentation.
It's not like I don't have enough projects, though. I have plenty of projects, and I have plenty of yarn. Plenty! I just have this ... yarn-hoarding affliction. How embarassing.
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on 2006-04-13 01:44 pm (UTC)A's mum took up knitting and found an interesting source for yarn - thrift stores!
She picks up these angora or cashmere sweaters or whatever in colors she likes, unravels them, and gets several balls of really nice yarn for a few bucks ^_^