In which I confess a few things here and there. I may have mentioned that my job went all nuts. In fact, I noted in the last stashburning post, right at the top, that very same thing. Nothing’s changed, everything’s crazy, but I am trying very, very hard to take back my time right now.
One positive side effect of being crazy busy like woah is that I haven’t had much (any) time to stalk my favorite yarn stores/yarnies and buy yarn. One negative effect is that I haven’t really knit as much as I would like, since I’ve spent most of my evenings trying to tread water with my job rather than knitting, but I have squeezed in some – as you’ve seen over the last few days.
At any rate, there has been some yarn coming into the house in the last six weeks or so. Not as much as my stress level would suggest though, so that has to be progress, right? At any rate, let’s get to the numbers.
Stash Yardage:
Miles in Stash Following Stash Toss: 16.88
Total Miles Used, all time: 4.999 (+0.098)
Miles Traded/Sold/Gifted: 6.31 (+0.22)
Miles in Stash Last Week: 13.25
Miles in Stash This Week: 13.68
Net Change from Last Week: +0.43 miles
Net Change from Stash Toss:-3.20 miles
Overall: Well, not really that bad, all things considered. The thing I alluded to a few days ago is that I went to the LYS to get yarn for my ghosts, and some to seam a blanket (more to come on that). A little extra sock yarn may have jumped in my basket via my Kid…

Socks for her are promised once my mom’s socks are done.
Then, in a moment of weakness in the local craft store while picking up some appliques for someone’s pants, some cotton may have leaped into my basket as well (I’ve been thinking I want some more hand-knit dishcloths because they’re awesome).



That (and the blanket seaming yarn below) is all of the yarn in.

The yarn for the ghosts is the additional “all used up” yarn.
The traded-sold-gifted yarn was this:

Which went to the lovely and awesome Ms. GingerKnitsUK as a prize/thank you/hosting Mr. Gingerbread gift. As much as I would have liked the opportunity to knit SeaCell, I wanted to send an awesome prize, and the color seemed appropriate for her. She’ll have to get back to me on what kind of socks it makes.
I’m not particularly pleased to be up almost half a mile, but I also have a lead on a potential opportunity to destash some more of the stuff in my stash I’m not particularly proud of. I’m not making any promises on more stashburning posts forthcoming, but I’m not ruling it out either. My rule of thumb will be “significant” changes, which definitely worked this time. I purchased yarn four weeks ago and have felt guilty about not posting it for two weeks now. It might take me some time to get there, but I will get there in the end.