More yarn and a stashcount!

As anyone who has been around here for a while knows, I try to keep my stash relatively small. This holds tension with the fact that I enjoy buying yarn in person, and at fibre festivals, and I usually only go to two or three a year. Also, I (almost) exclusively buy Australian dyed and milled yarn these days, through a combination of wanting to support the Australian yarn industry, and how our dollar + postage makes American and English yarn quite spendy. So, I went to Bendigo and bought yarn for 5 major projects, which took my stash to about 25 kms. What I didn't mention at the time is that I had ordered 1600 meters from Bendigo Woolen Mills:

My mother asked for a cardigan for her birthday at the beginning of November, I thought this yarn was perfect and it was on special and they gave me the perfect pattern for free (sort of perfect pattern, I won't be knitting colour changing yarn in pieces.).

Also, the project I am currently working on is for a friend and she bought the yarn, so that's not even coming out of my stash numbers, which are a wincingly high 26,264 meters. This is pretty much the most yarn I have ever owned. Woops.

I'm pretty excited about my knitting plans and everything I plan to knit, but also, I won't be buying any new yarn in a hurry - ideally not before Christmas, if Dani does us a Christmas yarn this year, and by then I will hopefully have knit this down to a somewhat more reasonable 15kms. I remember, this one time, when I got the stash down below 10kms and it started to make me a bit nervous, so now it's always my goal to be around that number, and I'm usually quite a lot higher! Let's see how it goes - at least I know I'm going to enjoy the journey!

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What I made, by Sharon

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