Hidden Yarn Stash

Laura

Dear House,

You may have heard we are moving. Don’t worry we’ve found a nice family to take our place, one without two large dogs to pound your lovely wood floors and shake your rafters with their barking. A family with two small children who will crawl on your floors, grind dropped Cheerios under their toes and consider your steep stairs their play ground.

The thing is when I leave I’d like to take my yarn with me and I could use a bit of help finding it all. It’s hidden it in nooks and crannies in almost every room. The Realtors made me put it all away; categorizing it as 'personal clutter' as if buyers could not appreciate its obvious beauty. Crazy huh?  And, if I’m really honest, some of it might be hiding from my husband for whom the concept of ‘stash’ means under a dozen skeins of yarn. Clearly he does not appreciate the creative process.

So I’m missing a few items like that Scarf Style lace leave scarf I started in bright olive green but did not finish. It’s in a red silk knitting bag somewhere. Then there's that pretty Moroccan blue cardigan I designed that’s still missing sleeves, the size 8 sweater I knit for my now 12-year-old son but never put together, and the wound skein of Handmaiden Camelspin just waiting to be turned into a lovely lace shawl.

Oh, and while we at it it seems that I’m also missing a few knitting needles. Surely they can’t all be with UFOs. That would mean I have at least a dozen projects on needles – surely that can not be the case. Surely I have some self control when it comes to buying new yarn and finishing projects. Surely I am lying to myself.

Thanks for coughing up this long hidden treasure. Eight skeins of cotton-silk that were my very first purchase from a 'real' yarn store about fifteen years ago. A swanky knitting store in mid-town Manhattan that did not yet understand the idea of a LYS and whose doors closed over a decade ago. Never one to shy away from projects over my head it was meant to be an intricate Irish Fisherman's sweater. After weeks of knitting our new puppy pulled it apart and I never could get back to it. I knit this intartia swatch several years later but it too never went anywhere.

Thank you House, your help is greatly appreciated. I'll let our new place know how helpful you were.

Comments

[Miss 376]

Hope the move goes smoothly. I've recently moved, and the new house is already hiding away my craft bits ans pieces. I know they're there somewhere, but not quite where!

[carol]

My hubby thinks any stash is too much! He figures I should finish one project before starting the next. silly guy!

[Suzanne V. (Yarnhog)]

While you're at it, could you ask it to talk to my house and see if it can give me some hints about the location of that Sea Silk I know I bought? I'll trade the crochet cotton for it. Thanks!

[Jeri]

I'm looking for a skein of Lorna's Laces that I'm sure is around here somewhere. A bin full of sock yarn but it's the missing one I want to knit with?