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FO Friday - a hat and a stash update

I like to keep a tidy stash. All the yarn I have is on my Ravelry stash page. I carefully (obsessively?) track my yardage. This started when I first counted in 2013. Generally it's easy - I buy yarn, put it on Raveley, sooner or later knit it, put the project on Ravelry. Done. But what happens when there is a small amount of yarn left? Too much to say the ball is finished? Say, 20 grams from a 50 gram ball? I had a few small balls hanging about. there was some knit Picks Pallete that I dyed for Sleeve Island and didn't need, a half ball of Holst Garn Super-Soft left over from Still Light and I just knew that the leftovers from Noah's baby jumper would end up sitting around forever.

 A couple of months ago I found this hat pattern -Fits The Whole Fam. Hold 3 strands of fingering yarn together, knit on 5mm needles and off you go:

 I used my favourite cast on for 1 x 1 rib (Alternating Cable,  ) and really enjoyed knitting this. I'm going to donate it to KOGO, my knitting charity of choice.

 It feels good to tidy up my stash, and convert something that was annoying into something that might get used and appreciated.

 While we are here, since i am talking about stash, and I have bought quite a lot and used quite a lot of yarn since my last count, it seems timely to do a stashcount:  15,658 meters

 But the Purl Box did an update, so I have quite a bit of mohair on it's way in the mail!
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  1. Jeannie Gray Knits30 June, 2020

    I pulled all my stash out and photographed it recently, well, all but the cedar chest full which I completely forgot about. The photos were bad enough. I really, really don't want to know my yardage. The number might be so high, I'd actually stop buying yarn. I do admire people who track it though.
    Love the hat! Have you seen the 5x5 cowl? Five yarns held together and 5-stitch ribbing (k5, p5) continued until it's long enough to wrap around twice then sew the ends together. Great stash buster and very wearable!

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