On Monday I gave my stash another cull. The motivation was an email from a friend asking if I could give her mother some yarn to knit children’s clothes or charity items out of. But I also had a painfully blocked sinus, and was in a bit of a grouchy, fed-up sort of mood, and that might have contributed to the ruthlessness. I culled over 2 kilos of small batches of yarn. I also threw in the yarn that had led to the skirt sewing, because if that skirt taught me anything it’s that scratchy yarn is scratchy yarn, no matter what use you put to it. If my friend’s mum doesn’t want it, she can pass it on to someone else.

The skirt is going to the op (charity) shop. Ruthless is my middle name!

My stash spreadsheet was helpful in choosing what to cull. While I had it open, I decided to make an honest spreatsheet out of it, and entered the yarn that’s been on display in bowls around the house. Yes, I’m a bit naughty like that. Afterwards the stash was still smaller than after the cull, and I was able to fit everything into my plastic tubs easily.

But, as always, I still feel there’s too much of it, so I did some yarn-to-favourited-pattern matching on Ravelry and added some projects to my queue. I also updated my weaving projects queue. And that led to some reorganisation of the copious piles of fabric I’ve been collecting for rag rug weaving. And that led to… you guessed it… buying more yarn. But only cotton warp yarn for more rag rugs. I keep weaving-specific warp yarns in their own small, separate stash, so it won’t be adding to the stash stash.

Updating the weaving queue got me all enthused again, so I’ve started two new weaving projects. More on that in another post.