Big Bag of Yarn

We have been stash busting since before we went to Greece.  We started stash-busting in earnest during the lockdowns of the COVID years.  Stash in the sewing department was reduced markedly, and attention was turned to the stash in the yarn department.  F has nearly used up all the 'pullover' quantities of yarn and was looking for projects that use up oddments - projects that she can carry about with her.

You will have seen some of the multi-coloured hats (with ears) in an earlier post - well the count of those is up to 14, with another 3 or so planned from what remains.  Here are some more...

She says we are onto the boring ones - the ones that have grey or brown as their base colour.

Recently one of her work (and crafting) colleagues died suddenly, leaving a large stash of knitting yarn at the office; yarn she had stashed at work to run a knitting club.  Knitting clubs were apparently popular with people looking for lockdown occupations.  Interest has waned and the bag languished in a filing cupboard.  Her family doesn't want it and in fact they are looking for a home for an 'under-stairs cupboard full' of crafting materials.

I told her to look the other way, but did she?  Would she?  What do you think?  

So now she is planning some crocheted slippers (pattern here if you can fight your way through the adverts), some baby blankets (because the suitable yarn is acrylic, therefore machine washable, and in colours that suggest baby stuff), and a lot more hats for seafarers for next winter.  I am wondering whether there are enough hours in a week to fit all this in..........alongside the hours necessarily consumed attending to my whims.  

My whims are the most important things in the world.  I don't even want to think about the contents of the 'under-stairs cupboard'.