Yikes! It's a Yarn Explosion!
Of course, this is the way I prefer to look at it:
All cleaned up and put away!
Much better! Want a tour?
The bags on the top are the yarn I bought from Iceland in February of 2004. There's three sweaters there - two for me and one for Dan. You can see pictures of them in that link. One of these winters I'll get around to these.
The two bins below the white bags are bags of yarn for sweaters - Rowan Cork (blogged here), Takhi Dazzle from the yarn swap, Lionbrand Landscapes from Christmas, Valeria di Roma cotton, Filatura di Crosa No Smoking (option Eeeny from the contest), the Brooks Farm Four Play (also in the contest) and a few others.
The bottom left bin is full of medium quantities of mostly wool yarn - Noro, Silky Wool, Bulky Alpaca (another score from the yarn swap) and various yarns for felting.
The big pink bin is full of Acrylic. Wool-Ease, Homespun, etc. I bought some of it as a newbie knitter who still though I would save money by knitting my own sweaters. I'm keeping it mostly for charity and/or baby knitting. This bin will probably go in the attic since I won't be needing the contents that often.
The last clear bin is the summer yarn - cottons, linen, ribbon silk, soy (!) and bamboo(!!). The three white cases hold Oddballs, sock yarn and scarf yarn (novelty). The green bowl is my Manos thrift store sweater, and the two blue things are Target learn-to-knit kits that I got for 75% off - there's a pet bed and a baby hat and bootie set.
Not included in this picture: the other half of the sock yarn stash (you didn't think it would all fit in that little bin, did you?), the fleece, or the WIPs.
OK, now I've showed you mine ;)...
Posted by Sarah at April 1, 2006 08:53 PM | in: events | PermalinkGreat yarn stash! I can't wait to see you make up those sweater-to-be's from Iceland. Are you planning on going to the Festival Knit that Lolly is putting together in DC on the 9th?
Posted by: Karen on April 1, 2006 11:15 PMbad, bad girl :)
very well kept though, mine (though small on most knitter's scale) is VERY messy. Mainly messy within plastic bags/ boxes, but messy nonetheless
Posted by: alice bell on April 2, 2006 08:14 AMWOW look at the floor space!!!!
And you do have it nicely arranged now. I'm not going to the work to pull out all of mine but you've seen most of it anyway! LOL
Love you
Mom
That is a yarn explosion!
See my stash flash here http://trekcelt.blogspot.com
Posted by: trek on April 2, 2006 01:45 PMWow. That's some stash you have, little lady!
See ya on the 9th?
sarah - nice stash! very impressive. i love that i finally found someone else who is not so much of a yarn snob that they can buy target learn-to-knit kits just for the yarn. (i love those!) you can view my stash here
Posted by: sarah on April 4, 2006 11:51 AMYarn from Iceland? that is *awesome*! lovely stash, you have, my friend!
So, will we see you this weekend for the Meetup on the Mall? please say yes!
Posted by: Lolly on April 4, 2006 07:42 PM