Notes from yesterday's destash

  • The remaining large totes turned out to be a) smaller than I'd thought (it was actually two small totes and a medium one stacked together funny), and b) not so easy to destash. One of them was "multiple skeins of brown acrylic, no two alike, that I intend to use in a single project together", and it got put back more or less intact (other than pulling the brown mohair out of it - last time I did the stash, I sorted it by color). The others were the fabric stash, and I'm not ready to go through it yet.
  • Should I concede that I'm never going to make the "multiple skeins of brown acrylic" afghan and destash it all?
  • I think this time I'm going to dump it all on the bed and sort by category, then by color. If I want a bunch of mohair for a single project, having some of it in the "white and offwhite" tote and some of it in the "brown" tote is nutso.
  • The Stray Yarn Roundup completely filled the large tote I'd emptied. I think I might need to try this process one more time, because I know there's still stray yarn I haven't come across yet, and I put some questionable things into the stray yarn tote. And it hurts my brain that I've removed a large tote's worth of yarn from my stash, but the large tote is still full.
  • Hubby loves me anyways, because I cleared out the shelves I was just stuffing spinning fiber onto wherever it would fit.
  • I need a ball winder like nobody's business - I don't know if my nostepinne skills are up to the tangled mess some of the pull skeins have turned into. Happily, I have $13 left on a JoAnn gift card and they've got 50% off anything coupons for next week, so I might be able to get one for very little out-of-pocket.
  • Is it weird that I made better yarn balls using a toilet paper tube as a nostepinne than I did with a real one?
  • Why did Firefox flag "nostepinne" as misspelled once, but not after that?
  • I found all the yarn and the completed squares and the hook and pattern for the 63-Square Afghan. This is a good first step in finishing it. :) I had more squares done on the second row than I thought, and one from the third row. I still need to decide what I'm going to do about the white squares, though.
  • The stitch pattern for one of those squares would probably make a really good dishcloth. It's nice and textury.
  • I also found two needlepoint projects I started years ago, only to discover that I don't like working on a painted canvas. Compensation stitches make me nuts. Trash?

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