Adding to the Stash (Acceptably)

I thought I had blown one of my goals out of the water…

• Knit/spin from stash (exceptions only when deals are spectacular and/or for souvenirs)

Because I had bought yarn…and then I bought more this past weekend at the Guild meeting, along with some fiber.

However!  I parenthetically excepted myself!   The yarn and fiber I bought were spectacular deals, and therefore are acceptable.

The Guild was offering more from the accumulated supplies of a deceased member, who left it all to the Guild to dispose of.  We have been seeing equipment, books, and fiber for sale/auction every month since September and it has been quite a little fund raiser for the group.  I am not sure, but I think there are some knitting books to be offered next month.

This is what I hauled home last weekend…

Mountain Colors Weavers Wool

And also some Tahki Cotton Classic in some neutral colors (that I apparently have deleted the photos of...) (and apparently I cannot be bothered to take additional...)

And some pretty wool/silk roving

(Hmm...this is very interesting...another photo MIA...wonder if I deleted these really really or if I am going to find them stashed in some folder somewhere.  I know, I know...I could just run upstairs and take another, but I don't think I will.)

And in another parenthetical exception, from the long weekend trip to Sedona, I scoped out an LYS…so souvenir yarn, which is excepted.

Schoppel Wolle Zauberball

This is worth a photo, I think.

So...still on track with this year's goals...and still buying yarn!

Unfortunate Side of Organization

There is a down side to having an organized space.  With a place for everything and everything in it’s place?

I can see exactly where I have room for something else.

D-oh!

I know exactly what I have, what I don’t have, and thereby, what else I think I need.

Okay…want…

I start to think in terms of ‘this is really great, but you know what would make it even better…’

That’s the crack talking, and it won’t stop.  Ever.

So I back off, talk myself down, look at what I have, and see that my craft room is good.  It’s very good. 

It’s a room, for pete’s sake.

That having almost every back issue of Interweave Knits (except for 4) is adequate.  More than adequate, actually.  Just one example, by the way. (edit: I think I have found 3 of those four back issues on Ravelry from someone who is de-stashing some mags...)

And I have plenty of yarn and fiber to keep me knitting and spinning and dyeing until the cows…or maybe sheep...come home.  Plenty.

Which, however, will not keep me from purchasing a bargain when one appears.  I am nothing if not honest with myself.

Nor will it keep from making a purchasing of something extra-ordinary.  Like this:

Stansborough Grey. “Stansborough Farm, in the Wairarapa district, NZ, has the only flock of Stansborough sheep in the world making this fiber truly a unique find. Stansborough Grey wool was woven to make the famous costumes for Lord of The Rings and Narnia movies.” 

And being the complete LOTR dork that I am…I will say no more.