Yarn!

Purlescence Yarns held a yarn swap on Sunday in keeping with the Knitter’s Review slow stashing idea.

I rummaged through the fiber bins on Saturday and picked out the things that no longer made me happy or that I just really couldn’t see myself ever actually knitting.  This included a whole plastic bin of the stuff that I bought back when I first started knitting over 6 years ago (e.g., Homespun and Wool Ease).  I figured that if someone wanted it they could take it, otherwise, everything left on the swap table at the end of the day was to be donated to charity.  Either way, it’s out of my apartment.  Surprisingly, someone actually took the sweater’s worth of Wool Ease I had brought.

I came back with 2 bags of mostly sock and laceweight yarns.  Now, they will be going through quarantine.  I think I’m going to do it the quick and dirty way and stick everything in a garbage bag with a few moth balls.  There’s too much to stick in the freezer.  Besides, I don’t think The Husband would appreciate opening the freezer door looking for vodka only to find sock yarn.

3 thoughts on “Yarn!

  1. Mmmmm, vodka socks.
    (I’m envious. I am trying to work through my I-did-not-know-better Homespun stash, so that I will think twice and hopefully 4 or 5 times before purchasing randomly. It’s been stalled out for months now)

  2. If you put individual skeins (and smallish pairs) into Ziplock type bags, you can freeze a few at a time, and they take up less space if you also squish the air out.

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