Addictions

My name is Rose Red and I'm addicted to buying yarn.


I really only started knitting properly again about 2.5 years ago, after not having done any since I was a teenager. A work colleague asked me how to cast off a scarf she was making and I could actually remember how to do it. And that inspired me to make a scarf. And then my best friend fell pregnant with twins and so I decided to make a jumper for each of them. And so it went on from there.


In that period, I have managed, somehow, I don't know how and don't even want to contemplate how, to purchase a large amount of yarn. A VERY large amount of yarn. Almost 23 kilos (or 50lb) of yarn. Looking at how much I knit last year, I'd say that's probably enough to last me 10 years. Oh my.


Inspired by others out there in blogland, I am joining in Knit from your Stash 2007. Here's my version of the rules:


Rose Red: Knit from your Stash 2007

1. Sock yarn doesn't count (see, I'm making exceptions already) - but only if it is the most superfantastic sock yarn that I'll never be able to get again.


2. I can buy yarn for knitted gifts (or yarn-y gifts) but only if I don't already have something suitable in the stash (no intentional picking of projects for which I know I have no stash!)


3. I am allowed to buy a particular discontinued yarn if it ever becomes available (eg on eBay)


4. I can buy sticks, books and other knitting accessories


5. I can buy yarn to complete a project using stash yarn, if absolutely necessary


6. I can buy yarn for my birthday


7. I can receive yarn as a gift (a genuine gift!)


8. I can fall off the wagon twice (not counting my birthday or sock yarn!)


9. Knit from your Stash commences 1 February 2007 through to 31 December 2007.

To help, I am also going to do more of this:

(it's going to be hard. I am a hoarder). And there'll be a little yarn giveaway on my blog sometime this year. It'll be good stuff, I promise!