My yarn fast is going well. I’ve taken three trips to two
different yarn shops and didn’t buy yarn. I’m quite proud of myself. I’m also
enjoying rediscovering the yarn I already have.
I have, however, added to my stash. I made my one yarn
purchase for the year. A dear friend gave me a gift card to Jimmy Beans Wool. I
decided to use it to buy yarn I’ve “dreamed” about for a long time. Welcome my
skein of Dream in Color Smooshy (In Vino Veritas colorway). It’s quite lovely
but I haven’t decided what to do with it yet. It has a lot of yarn in the queue
ahead of it that doesn’t know what it wants to be, either.
That is one of the challenges of knitting down my stash:
Trying to figure out what the yarn wants to be. Case in point, I had a skein of
Ellen Cooper Zohar's Socks that I bought at Knitting Addictions in Kitty Hawk, NC that couldn’t
decide what it wanted to be. I think I tried at least five different patterns
before I settled on Multnomah.
I also had a skein in a half of Rowan Tapestry that went
through multiple cast-ons before I came to the Just Knit It scarf. Although I
didn’t think it would work, the scarf came out very well. Well enough to be
featured on the pattern page! I had to keep trying until the yarn matched the
pattern.
I think that’s the moral of the story. Sometimes that match
doesn’t happen right away. Sometimes you think you’ve found the right pattern
only for it to end in an ugly ripping break-up. Just keep trying because in the
end, you’ll come out with not just a lovely project, but a lovely pattern made
lovelier by determination.
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