Use all the yarn I've bought

I have just finished one huge cone of fingering wool. I knitted a twinset, a shawl and 2 hats. Took me 3 months. See you in 5 years time.

I haven’t worked on this lately as I’ve been doing lots of charity knitting and knitting for other people. Sigh, not only do I sabotage myself by buying more yarn, I keep putting myself at the bottom of the list.

I didn’t go to my yarn store’s twice-annual yarn sale last weekend. The last several items I’ve knitted have been from yarn leftover from other projects.

I’m feeling fairly virtuous.

I am down to 15 projects to go, and today I saw some lovely wool, but didn’t buy it.

I got 2 more projects finished, then someone gave me a whole bag filled with laceweight which will keep me busy for months. This was supposed to be about knitting the yarn I’d bought, and I’ve given some of that away and am busy knitting stuff I’ve been given for charity. Perhaps I should change this goal to “use up all my stash,” except I’m beginning to think I never will.

This is a never ending battle

so gave one cone of fingering to a friend in exchange for a lot of vintage patterns, and one cone of laceweight to a frined who’s taking up knitting lace. I knew I wouldn’t enjoy working with either, and there’s no point in going on in dogged determination just because I said I would. The yarn will still get knitted, but not by me.

This was quite a doable goal when I first listed it. Now I’ve been knitting for 18 months, completed 38 projects, and I still have twice as much in my stash as when I began. Still to knit 22 projects. Big ones. In fine yarn. On small needles.

I’m bored with knitting. I keep plodding away, but at the moment I’m only doing 6 rows a day. I’ve only completed one baby jersey in the last month. I may have to put this on the back burner until I get my enthusiasm back. At least I’ve lost interest in buying yar- don’t utter that word in my presence!

- I hope. Haven’t bought any for a month and am making slow progress. Having problems with my shoulder so not doing much knitting at the moment.

I sort of feel this is my main goal at the moment – I haven’t time to get on with the others until I complete it. But I keep sabotaging myself by buying more yarn. Maybe I should go in for psychoanalysis to find the origins of this habit? Because at the moment I’m completing one article and getting wool for 2 more. I’ll never get my stash used at this rate.