In and out, up and down (II)

Yarn, it flows in and out of my stash. I buy it, I use it, I get given it, I win it, I give it away. There is a sort of trade that goes on at the Richmond Knitters. A few months ago I was worried about running out of yarn for my blanket and my friends gave me loads of their leftovers. There are leftover from the leftovers, and Katherine mentioned the other day that she is going to crochet a blanket, and will be using any size of leftovers, so I packed up 200 grams of left-over left-overs for her. When I got to Monday night knit night, Louisa was crocheting a blanket and she wanted soft colours, so I let her go through my leftovers. she said she had heaps of brights, so next time she comes I'm going to pull out as many gentle colours as I can, and she'll bring me some of her leftovers. Of course, once I've knit a blanket square with each colour I will pass the left-over-left-overs on.

Then one Monday Jane brought in some Tofuties, because she is allergic to it. I have plenty of sock yarn, (9 skeins) and I'm trying to knit less socks, so I let others have at it. Karen took one skein and then put the other one, in this pretty purple, in front of me saying 'that's a very you colour Sharon". Well, it would have been rude not to, right?

And then I was buying some yarn for a surprise, so no photos yet, and threw in this mohair and sock yarn for Elton.
And that's why I will never run out of yarn, but also why I feel so happy and lucky to be part of such a generous, fun, community.

For those of you following along at home, stashcount is currently 14,019 meters.

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What I made, by Sharon

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