so many finished objects, so little desire to blog about them

so i moved house, which meant moving the stash, which meant assessing the stash. UGH

It's not a huge stash by any means, I would say less than 100 different yarns, nothing more than a sweaters worth of each (ok, two things might have a blankets worth, but then it takes a blanket to go round me, so I'm sticking to a sweaters' worth quantities!) mostly between 1 and 4 skeins. But seriously I only ever used to collect books and dvds and now having this third collection to take into consideration is a bit overwhelming. but in a good way. does that make any sense?

so yes, now I'm way more aware of what i've got, i've also been inspired about what to make with a bunch of it, and also i took the opportunity to bag it all up in zip locks. so haha moths, nothing for you, move it along! so now it's doable, this stashbusting of 2011, this crazy plan, this money and space saving knitted-good-making plan is in the works. And to show for it, i have

startitis stashbusting sblanket on the bed

blanket all folded up

Damson being blocked

Damson, up close and personal

me, wearing Springtime Bandit in the springtime

Springtime blocking

made up broken rib hat

made up garter stitch stripey scarf
(because you don't need a pattern for the world's easiest scarf)

the actual colours of the stripey garter scarf

next post up, works in progress.

i really thought i always needed to buy more yarn to make me start a project, but this is just not the case, it's a bit of an eye opener to be honest. it's quite amazing what you can find even in as small a stash as mine. 

maybe you could shop your stash tonight? it's fun, and the yarn feels loved, and that's really what it's all about - mutual appreciation and the perfect pattern match x

another one bites the dust

FINALLY made myself a Dandy Neckerchief!

This is the first thing I ever queued on Rav and I cannot believe it's been on there for so long

the second my Spud and Colour Sweater in Rootbeer arrived, i knew i had to get those two together and make a squishy chocolately and deliciously lovely baby

she's unblocked, but i love her already

also in need of buttons, but eh, that'll happen.

so here she was on Monday night after casting on at SnB

and here she is all finished and looking slightly fallopian shaped

this colour is particularly hard to capture at 2am under harsh flash (the time that both photos were taken) but it really is such a warm and lush chocolatey brown.

i just have to say again, i freaking LOVE Spud and Chloe yarns.