Too Much Yarn, or Lots of Choices; You decide

November 12, 2007 by Dena
Filed under: Knitting

Yesterday I spent a lot of time getting my stash up on Ravelry. Holy cow! I thought I might have a fair amount of yarn, but it’s a little more than I thought. I’ve started listening to Stash & Burn and really only had their numbers to go by. One said they had over 30,000 yards of yarn, the other over 60,000 yards. Well I have just over 50,000 yards, not including my partial skeins or the yarn in my current projects. This is coming from 239 skeins of yarn.

I have it in my head that I really want to buy 2 balls of Quiviet at Rhinebeck next year. Yes, these can be $80/ball. So I thought I’d set a goal to meet before I bought these two balls of uber-expensive yarn. Do I go by the amount of space that the yarn takes up, number of balls, or number of yards. If I was going to go by the space it takes up, I’d would love to fit in the boxes above my sewing cabinet again. The yarn has spilled over into my sewing cabinet (really that should just be for my fabric and beads), above the shelves in the office, and a big basket in the living room.

If I go by yardage…how much would be reasonable? 20% sounds reasonable. So that would be mean that I need to knit 10,000 yards of yarn by next October. That seems like a lot.

If I go by skeins…that would be almost 50 skeins. Of course this doesn’t include any yarn I might purchase in the next year. Who knows what amazing new closeout or yarn is around the corner. The Malabrigo Silky Merino that came in today seems like a yarn that I really need.

A fair amount of my yarn is either fingering or laceweight. That would take up much more time to knit up. So I think going by volume or skeins makes the most sense to me.

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5 Comments on Too Much Yarn, or Lots of Choices; You decide

Cirilia on Tue, 13th Nov 2007 12:42 am

When I read “Malabrigo Silky Merino” I heard on of those record scratching “say WHAT?!” sounds in my head. No lie.

Amy on Tue, 13th Nov 2007 12:35 pm

Hm. The balls of Quivit are really small, though, aren’t they? How much volume are we talking about? I agree with you about the yardage… the skeins seem more doable.

That’s a nice way to set a goal for yourself, by the way. Much nicer than these silly “yarn diets”.