Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Flash Me!

For various reasons, Stan and I have been having stash conversations recently. I'm sure you've all been there at some point. You have too much yarn, or you haven't been knitting enough of the yarn that you've got or something along those lines to make your significant other question the amount of yarn you've got. Stan, I think, has a hard time grasping the yarn collection aspect of my hobby because he doesn't collect anything himself.

Until recently, Stan thought my entire stash fit in a milk crate between my roommate's room and mine. He has since been assured that such a divine spot in front of the TV is used only for pretty yarn (and that I actually do stare at it often), and there is quite a bit more yarn under a chair behind the TV (he didn't even know there was a chair behind the TV). He thinks (probably rightly so) that I have way more yarn than I could ever knit. And the stash has come up for some spatial concerns as well.

I've decided that I really should go through the stash. I need to photograph it all and list it all on Ravelry. Random leftover balls (but not remnants from socks that are lying around for mending) and all. Regardless, there will be one glory shot of it all together (if I can fit it in with my wide angle lens!). I might even look to part with some of it. Maybe.

I pose it to you, what's left of my dear readers: Flash Your Stash 2009! I think it would be way fun to put the size of my stash in perspective. Take a photo of your stash all together! Show me how much you've got! Slap it on your blog, then drop a comment to this post with a link. I'm giving all of us (myself included!) until January 1, 2010 to photograph and list it all.

I'm contemplating making this interesting by adding in a yarny incentive, but I'm going to hold off on that in the event I find that I can't part with my sock yarn. I'll figure it out and post something either way soon.

4 comments:

Claudine said...

Still looking for that picture we discussed last night, but in the meantime check out these links:

http://mochimochiland.com/blogimages/bonneystash4.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AbImehj4LiA/Rh_ygK3vjUI/AAAAAAAABGo/OPoX-Qd5jLw/s400/YarnStash%5B1%5D.jpg

Claudine said...

Ok here it is:

http://mochimochiland.com/weblog/2007/07/the-worlds-biggest-stash/

Stan can't say ANYTHING after he see this!

Kara said...

I'll do it. Like yours, my stash is located in a couple of different places. It would be interesting (maybe frightening) to see it all together.

Ruth said...

I'm just scared that all my yarn is not going to fit onto my queen sized bed, which seems scary. But seeing that woman's room o' stash makes me feel slightly better. Slightly.