Hey, it's almost Halloween!
And here's something scary...
The Sock Stash *cue creepy music*
... and more
... and more
These skeins were absent during the original sock stash photo:
Wow, now that's a lot of sock yarn! Much more than back in April (1st picture). Strangely, even though I have knit a lot of socks since then, I still have more sock yarn. This is why the current stash-reducing plan is so important. ;)
Lolly asks:
Do you have certain patterns planned for some of the yarns? Do you buy yarn and then choose a pattern?
I do a little of both. I am always coming up with great plans for specific yarns and patterns, but then I forget them. Now I have a "Sock Plans" spreadsheet to put that stuff in so I remember.
Does a certain sock yarn you have in your stash take you back to a certain event? (where you were when you bought/received it? what was going on in your life at the time?)
Yup! A few of the skeins remind me of various Sheep & Wool festivals where they were purchased. More remind me of certain people. I know there's yarn that Rachel dyed for me, the yarn I bought when I was with the Portland Knittyheads... You get the picture. ;)
However, there is another good part about this whole picture taking thing... I have actually catalogued the entire sock stash in a spreadsheet! While doing this I found out that my two skeins of Mountain Colors Bearfoot are actually the same color. The dyelots are quite a bit different, but the color name is the same. And the funniest part about that is that they were both received in swaps/SP exhanges!
The Sock Stash *cue creepy music*
... and more
... and more
These skeins were absent during the original sock stash photo:
Wow, now that's a lot of sock yarn! Much more than back in April (1st picture). Strangely, even though I have knit a lot of socks since then, I still have more sock yarn. This is why the current stash-reducing plan is so important. ;)
Lolly asks:
Do you have certain patterns planned for some of the yarns? Do you buy yarn and then choose a pattern?
I do a little of both. I am always coming up with great plans for specific yarns and patterns, but then I forget them. Now I have a "Sock Plans" spreadsheet to put that stuff in so I remember.
Does a certain sock yarn you have in your stash take you back to a certain event? (where you were when you bought/received it? what was going on in your life at the time?)
Yup! A few of the skeins remind me of various Sheep & Wool festivals where they were purchased. More remind me of certain people. I know there's yarn that Rachel dyed for me, the yarn I bought when I was with the Portland Knittyheads... You get the picture. ;)
However, there is another good part about this whole picture taking thing... I have actually catalogued the entire sock stash in a spreadsheet! While doing this I found out that my two skeins of Mountain Colors Bearfoot are actually the same color. The dyelots are quite a bit different, but the color name is the same. And the funniest part about that is that they were both received in swaps/SP exhanges!
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2:22 PM
16 Comments:
Nice yarns there! And..um..I see a few similar skeins ;)
eek! Meant similar to ones in my stash :)
Gracious, and I thought I had stash! Thanks for sharing it with us.
=:8
It goes on and on! Where does it all live? In a special holy sock yarn shrine, maybe? Amazing stash!
thanks for sharing. dear goodness!
yeah. i used to just buy nice yarn and hope for a pattern...but i find for me it works better to find a pattern THEN buy the yarn. although I am getting better at matching stash to sweater patterns. because instead of sock yarn, i have enough yarn to make like, 5 sweaters. eeep
Now that's a lot of sock yarn!
Wow! Can I come live with your sockyarn stash?
Did you dive headfirst on the bed on top of the yarn after you took the pic??
Cuz it sure does look tempting!
Nice stash!
Oh! There's the Sock Candy! Quite a stash you have there - I don't think you're knitting socks quickly enough, LOL.
Hmmm....maybe I shouldn't bequeath my sock yarn stash to you.... :P
What a stash! I can't even find the 2 skeins I just gave you.
And you do so have yarn I would have wanted. There's some nice pink & blue & green stuff to the left of the first photo. But I'm happily awaiting the koigu, so it's all good
Nice stash! Let me guess.... you like blues? :-)
*drools* You have Blauband! My favorite!!
Dear god you have a lot of sock yarn!
You know it would take me like 10 yrs to knit all that?
WOW! But you know if you were any other knitter I'd have doubts--but you're such a dedicated sock knitter that if you stopped buying sock yarn today (hee hee! who would want to do that?) you'd probably finish that stash up in a year or so.
Holy WOW! And I thought I had a lot of sock yarn!
And I now understand why you asked if I'd seen the pictures on your blog! That is an incredible sock yarn stash!
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