Every year I start by crunching the numbers on my stash. I’ve come a long way since I started counting in 2013. As a resolution I wanted to coldsheep as much as possible. That means, not buy yarn but knit with stash. I find that although there is still enough stash yarn planned with a … Continue reading
For a while I’ve been looking at all those lovely amigurumi. I’d love to make something cute like that but I can’t crochet. Just another thing I want to learn. My first crochet project in queue is some lovely flowers to brighten up my light blue Zpagetti bag. The pattern doesn’t seem that hard but … Continue reading
I haven’t been writing much lately because I’ve been to music festivals and we’re starting a family renovation project. My brother has bought his first home and it needs some love. Last week we struggled with a heatwave so we spent the time shopping! Yeah! Now the temperature has dropped to some normal values it’s … Continue reading
9.991,6 meters, stash total of today. For the first time since I started counting in January 2013 my stash dropped below the 10 kilometers. Today I emptied one box of yarn! It fitted easily within the other boxes left. So now I have one box for storing my WIP’s*. Best part is that now the … Continue reading
There are two ways for me to stash down. One of it is to use more of my stash. As I happen to like knitting that isn’t a burden but with everything going on in my life I can’t knit as much as I like to. The other way to stash down is to keep … Continue reading
Last year I crunched the numbers to get focused on destashing. For most part of 2014 I didn’t buy yarn. To be honest, I received a delivery in January with 3.211,60 meters so I had lots of new lovely yarns to knit with. Every skein was bought with a specific project in mind. To be honest. … Continue reading
I’ve talked before about my struggle to stop buying all those pretty single skeins. My last yarn purchase more than 8 months ago was well thought and calculated. I only bought yarn for specific projects. So far no problem you’d think. Wrong! Almost nine months later I still haven’t knitted all the yarn bought in that shopping … Continue reading
In 2008 I knitted my own knitting bag to keep my WIP’s together instead of lingering all over the place in plastic bags. Although the bag is big enough it didn’t turn out to be the keeper of all the projects because there are just to many of them. Now it still keeps a few projects … Continue reading
Once upon a time I bought one skein Scheepjes invicta colour . And like with so many single skeins, for a long time I did’t know what to do with it. After many hours searching on Ravelry and after making my first entrelac bag I decided to use this sockyarn to make this entrelac handbag. Due to … Continue reading
As said before, I’ve trouble resisting those one skein wonders. That’s why my stash contains so much single skeins. Usually I fall in love with a color and just have to have it. Not knowing what to make with it makes it long-term-stash. For a long time it seemed that this Adriafil Venezia yarn would … Continue reading
Entrelac knitting is something I wanted to learn for a long time but somehow I never got to it. It seemed to complicated. Since I really like the entrelac projects other people make I decided to give it a go. Thanks to many sources on the internet I learned the principle of knitting entrelac. I … Continue reading
Last year I started with my yarn diet. Although I did buy some yarn in 2013, overall I destashed more than I dared to hope. As for coldsheeping, it really helped a lot to keep me focused. I stayed on the sheep for 7 months and one week. I jumped back on until the Drops … Continue reading
I’ve been coldsheeping for seven months and one week. Today I stepped off the sheep. This year I’ve been knitting a lot, mostly from stash. I started building that stash without knowledge about yarn and quality. So I bought acrylics. But now I’m knitting more, learning more I want to upgrade my stash. So as … Continue reading
Six months already. I started in march with the best intentions. Not knowing how coldsheeping would effect my spending habits. Just wanting to get my stash under control because it started to threaten to take over the space in my home. I just had to do something and keep buying yarn wasn’t it. After six months … Continue reading
I didn’t think I could make so many projects during summer. Although I double dipped I’m pretty happy with the total yardage used thanks to this challenge. It made me shop my stash and kept motivating this slow knitter to knit more. In addition to part 1 which I posted last month here’s part 2 of the challenge. … Continue reading
Lately I seem to be frogging….. a lot! So far I’ve knitted a scarf I didn’t like, a hat halfway before I realised there wasn’t enough yarn to finish, a clutch that would be to small to carry the things it needs to carry, more than half a scarf that needed to be wider. All this … Continue reading
While on holiday in Greece a few years ago, I ran into a cute little shop stuffed with fabrics, ribbons, buttons, sewing material, needles and … yarn! Stocked to the roof with beautiful treasures. Ran by slightly older lady’s with a love for the art of creating. A place to spend a whole day just loving all the … Continue reading
Lately my knitting mojo is on fire. I’m still a slow knitter so the visual progress I’m making now is really motivating to keep knitting. But being a slow knitter I have to be creative in making all the goals before 31 august. Photos can be found here. Ice pop: complete your oldest WIP or … Continue reading
Now I’m coldsheeping I want to make the most out of my stash, To bad lots of it was impulsive buying. For example I have some white Schachenmayr nomotta Boston bought during a closing sale. When I bought it I planned on making legwarmers. Before casting on I decided that making white legwarmers wasn’t sensible. So … Continue reading
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