The stash that wouldn't die

[soc_puppet]

Remember how proud I was to have severely cut down my yarn stash?

Yeeeaaah. Guess who got upstairs today to find two garbage-bags full of fresh yarn?

Dad, I love you, I really do, but you do not need to buy my every skein of yarn you happen to see at a garage sale. Ditto kitchen utensils and cake pans.

Weeding through this new collection for stuff I might possibly keep is made more difficult by the fact that I'm vaguely planning to tapestry-crochet the Zekrom and/or Reshiram PC wallpapers from Pokemon Black and White Version 2 (seen here, bottom row, two rightmost wallpapers), and 75% of the yarn is orange or blue. Another 25% is white or in various human skin tones (two peachy-pink and a range of browns), which I'm probably keeping all of because I can seriously use that stuff. Hopefully I already have something close to most of the rest, because this is ridiculous.

Well, back to the hook, I guess. That corn won't crochet itself.

Comments

[mommy]

Oh, dear. I had to train one of my housemates to not buy me large bags of cheap yarn at random. Good luck sorting things out!

[soc_puppet]

He's usually not so bad with the yarn; the worst he typically comes home with is a box of assorted colors and styles that I'll maybe find a couple skeins in. I'm certainly hoping this isn't the start of a new trend.

[delladea]

My family is that way about fabric. It's like they have a sixth-sense for when I'm in purge mode and give me more stuff.

Hope you get it sorted!

[soc_puppet]

LOL! Yeah, I'm pretty sure he actually saw me carrying up the massive box of yarn representing about half my previous stash to get rid of a couple weeks ago, and yet there they were: two bags roughly the same size as the box I'd just gotten rid of. If the universe is trying to tell me I need more yarn in my life, it could have picked a better medium through which to tell me. Like making sure all the yarn I already have doesn't get tangled. That would be a great method!