Why Stashes?

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:50:35 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@sbcglobal.net spun a fine yarn

Aaron, I cannot speak for ALL 'us' spinners, but for ME, personally, the urge to stash and protect said stash is WORSE now that I spin! JM2C, Noreen

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:57:49 -0500, Georgia spun a fine yarn

Georgia, Couldn't have stated it ANY better, TOO true! Noreen

$20 skein of yarn lasts longer than a bottle of wine or an evening at the theater...both in the working and in the wearing...

Georgia

times, it is said as an industry there is a multiplier for dollars spent from it. Confused yet?

anyhow you use yarn, you get satisfaction from the process, the product and the use of the product....

hey don't hit on me for this one; I stayed at GaTech a long time and worked hard to be able to pull out such trivia 27 years after i left campus (the last time)

klh in va

Georgia wrote:

And why is it there are some balls of yarn in the stash that are much more precious than others, even if they cost less? Is it the colour, the softness, where they came from? And why is it so much more difficult to find the right project for that yarn?

Love & higs Christine

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:50:35 GMT, spewed forth :

It won't, at least not immediately. I was sorely attached to my early handspun yarn, even the horrid stuff that's selling as "designer" yarn on etsy and other trendy handicraft sites. I finally came to my senses and made a cat mat out of it.

I also, finally, learned that an ounce of this and an ounce of that do not a project make. I buy entire fleeces, sometimes several at a time, and have them sent off to Zeilingers' for processing. When I buy commerciaI fiber I buy not less than two pounds; I can spin a sweater from two pounds and expect to have leftovers. Anything less isn't worth my time.

My stash is reprehensible. One day I may sit down and take a formal inventory. Suffice to say I have lots of yarn, and lots of spinning fiber. More than any one person really needs.

I just don't get the "buy it only as needed" mindset, but that's OK. Folks who operate that way don't understand my hoarding tendency, either :D

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On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 21:04:36 +0100, Christine in Kent, Garden of England spun a fine yarn

OMGosh, YES! I got some gorgeous lilac from Sue CD a WHILE back, it took forever for me to find the 'right' project to use it on... I also got some slightly knitand reknit red from Wooly that also defied a project for a while.... Noreen

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:16:31 -0500, YarnWright spewed forth :

Hm. I sent that yarn to boot camp and you whipped it into shape.

Wonder if I can send my kid to boot camp and get back "the boy next door" instead of this grubby spawn who took to Risk like a duck takes to water? Probably not, they'd probably turn him into the next Omar Bradley...

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For me, it's because the yarn represents potential. It's something that I can add something to and create something new. Wine or other consumables are not something I create with. Probably a cook would disagree, but for me, creativity is done mainly with fiber.

=Tamar

Was at the Delta (Sacramento RIver Delta) this past weekend and started a new knit throw blanket.

Guy walks up with a dog, and I LOVE dogs, so we start chatting. He asked what I was doing and I said knitting. He said his wife is addicted to the hand held electronic card games. Perhaps he should send her up the dock for lessons, since at least there is a product at the end, instead of another trip to the store for batteries. :-)

Jenn in CA.

Georgia wrote: