2010 yards per month in 2010
My last yarn purchase was on the 8th of November; I was in Los Angeles for work (I light the Grinch musical every year) and stopped into Unwind in Burbank for some Addi Turbos to work on my Henry Scarf for BQ. Two balls of Jade Sapphire Lacey Lamb jumped into my arms and would not let me leave the store without them!
But I resolved (well before this new year started) to not buy any more yarn until I’ve made a significant dent in my stash as I am planning on moving cross country to the Seattle area this summer and it would be great if I could move less unknit yarn!
One of the benefits of blogging daily this month is that I’ve been adding a lot of information to my stash and project pages on Ravelry. Soon I should be all caught up with stash entries and can then set a firm goal about exactly how much I’m hoping to get knit up in 2010!
My first thought was that I would join some other members of the Stash Knit Down group and try to knit 2010 yards each month of this year. Then I saw Eat.Sleep.Knit is having a “Yarn Marathon” and I thought that would be a great measure (their marathon is to purchase 26.2 miles, though, and mine would be to use up 26.2 miles!). There’s no way I can knit that much yarn in a year and there actually isn’t even that much yarn in my stash - so I thought perhaps I would do a half marathon or 13.1 miles of yarn - which, it turns out, is only 1064 yards short of the total of 2010 yards per month so that decided it for me! My goal is to knit 2010 yards per month in 2010 and not buy any new yarn or fiber until Rhinebeck in the middle of October!
(Also, I just told BQ that there is approximately 18.5 miles of unknit yarn stash - not to mention unspun fiber! - in my apartment and he blinked a few times and stared at me blankly before agreeing that there should me a moratorium on my purchasing yarn until I use a bunch up!)
Only nine months and one week left until Rhinebeck! And I have a lot of knitting and spinning to do before then…
January 11th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
I’m on a yarn diet too. I stopped knitting when I was adding a math credential to my certification, then discovered that I was one class short of a social science credential so I took that class too. It’s been a year and a half now and I’m going to start work today on a prayer shawl (once I finish the laundry and weeding).
January 11th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Hi Lauren, Rachel just told me about your blog, cuz we were skyping, when she told me about your October trip to Rhinebeck. I have wanted to go, but always have been teaching then. Now that I am retiring this June, perhaps I’ll finally get a chance to go! Now that I know about your blog, I will look forward to reading it! I also have a blog, but haven’t updated it in a while. I will let you know when I do! I have never been able to keep track of how many yards I have knitted, but I will try now to see if I can get near to them 2010 mark! Happy Knitting! -Carolyn