I have a confession to make. I don't really have a yarn stash. I'm the type of person that only buys yarn when I have a project in mind. This is usually a good thing, as I never end up spending too much money on a yarn splurge. My "stash" actually consists of left over yarn from past projects. I have half of skein of blue yarn from the Sleepytime Seashells Blanket. I have most of a skein of red heart simply soft left over from the Irish hiking scarf I knit back in april. I have some chunky gray yarn from a scarf I knit Tanner. I have a big spool of Cotton yarn from when I wanted to knit washcloths. I have a couple skeins of yarn that felt really great until you started knitting up (not touching those, ever).
The one drawback to this is when I run out of yarn, I have to go and buy new yarn to finish a project. At the moment? I'm not really overflowing with cash. As a result the fanciful rose blanket is going to be a UFO until I get a job (which should hopefully happen mid-August). I want to start up a hat but I don't have the right needles for it. All of the other great projects I was looking forward to when I got my hurt knitting books? Don't have the yarn or in some cases, the needles.
So at the moment I'm going through a bit of knitting withdrawal. I'm thinking about using that left over blue yarn to start a new blanket called Little Boy Blue. It's more complicated than any of the other blankets I've made and unlike Sleepytime Seashells, it will show mistakes. Still, I realize that I've been grumpy a lot lately, and I think part of the reason I have been is because I've been going through knitting withdrawal. Since I only have half a skein of blue yarn, I know I won't get much of a relief from stress but hey, at least it's knitting.
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