LOSY III - An update and some plans

I have somehow once again acquired a frightening about on Left Over Sock Yarn (losy). It's so scary that I have been intending to weigh it and document it for months, and I just haven't. But I just realised that, if I hadn't been adding to by creating more left over all the time, it the last entry for LOSY (from January 2019) would be all used up.

So today, I got it together and weighed it.

I've got LOSY in two places - carefully sorted by colour, with the sock yarn blanket. These colours have not been used in the blanket and there are about 710 grams (including the zip lock bags, I'm not THAT keen on accuracy, I weighed it in the thermomix).

Then there is LOSY that has already been used in the blanket, and I might use again, or use for other things:

This weighs in at 600 grams. I know it says 500, but 100 grams were elsewhere. Some of this yarn is "special". So I have a separate bag for self striping and an other for sparkle yarn. Still, it's a total of 1.31 kilograms, or (very approximately) 4,716 meters

Frightening.

I don't normally set targets for myself, but I'm going to knit 10 charity hats this year (or if I get bored with hats, maybe I'll do some mitts, or a charity Baby Surprise Jacket or six!). This should use up about 700 grams. It does mean I'll have to actually work on the blanket, because I need to knit a square with each of those yarn colours before I can move it into the "use it up"pile. Still, I know I can make calm from this chaos, I just need to stick to the plan!

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