Dealing with the stash

I have recently acquired the first of Yarn Harlot’s books.

I thought it would make me laugh – I was right

I didn’t think it would teach me useful tricks – I was wrong….

See the problem that faces every knitter who lives with a non-knitter is how to deal with the stash. Stash is the yarn you keep at home. Non-knitters assume that the point of stash is to turn it into knitted garments, so they get very, very confused by the fact that knitters continue to acquire stash far faster than it can reasonably be knit.

That’s because they’re wrong. The point of stash is not to be turned into garments – the point of stash is just to be; just to sit their being soft, and warm and prettily coloured, gently inspiring the knitter into dreams of things that *could* be made out of the stash, but won’t, because then the stash could no longer create those dreams…

I love my stash

Anyway, as a relatively new knitter my stash is still comparatively small, but I am already encountering the raised eyebrow when I bring home yet another skien of sock-yarn. So eventually I will have to start to conceal it in places other than the designated yarn-storage bucket.

And this is where the Yarn Harlot was so useful – thanks to her book I now have a long list if hidey-holes where yarn can be stored.

No, I’m not going to share them. My husband reads this blog and I don’t want him to find out…

Perhaps a trip to my LYS this lunch might be on the cards – they’ve got some lovely silk/wool sock yarn I’ve been eyeing off and now I’ve got places I can hide it…