In the past month or so I’ve suddenly got my knitting mojo back after about 3 or 4 months of not really being bothered.
But I’ve come to the conclusion that I have so much stuff that it’s getting me down! Too many knitting or crochet projects I started that I don’t love anymore and aren’t likely to get finished any time soon.
So, I did a ruthless thing and did a purge!
I threw out 2 projects I started ages ago and just haven’t had the motivation to get back into them; the knitted shawl in amazing lovely autumn colours and the knitted socks which I couldn’t even finish the ribbing for!
They’ve gone!
I frogged them and saved the yarn…but no more working on them ever again!!
And, looking through my photos for the 2 above, I realised I threw out another project too. A knitted blanket in squares, which I’d only knitted the first square.
I frogged that too and made a crochet blanket last week! Wool used up…great!
I did a big clear out and got rid of half used skeins of wool, scraps of fabric and things like that, that I’ll never use! I have so much more room in my craft drawers now.
I’ve also been trying to use up yarn that I’ve bought over the years without a project in mind. Such as these cute coloured pastel balls of yarn, but I never used because I don’t wear pastel garments!
So…I made a couple of baby hats, I’m knitting a baby cardigan with funky dark green and pink yarn and I started a shawl with the baby pastel yarn I had lying around.
And then with yarn leftover from those projects, I started a granny square cushion!
So, I’ve started a few projects lately with the aim of using up my stash.
A lot of my stash is acrylic and I want to start getting away from that. Acrylic is plastic basically, isn’t it? I want to use more natural fibres, but I don’t just want to chuck out everything I have…so I’m going to use it all up first.
I do love the colours of this yarn – the pics don’t do it justice and it is so soft and snuggly. But I only bought 1 or 2 balls of each colourway, so the projects are small that I’m doing to use it up!
It’s Baby Twinkle Prints DK by James C. Brett. You can grab it here from The Knitting Network if you want to have a look. I like The Knitting Network as they use paper not plastic packaging!
I’ve made a little bit of room so far…although I have about 10 tote bags with my knitting and crochet projects in them lying about!
I have 4 knitted jumpers and 1 crochet top I’m working on, with the yarn for a summer cotton vest (which won’t get finished before the winter comes lol!) and a lot of sock yarn still to work on. I also have 9 balls (!) of DK yarn to use up for a jumper as it was on offer!
And then there’s a few odd aran weight balls which I thought to make a baby blanket from, some cream and pink yarn for a jumper, and some chunky yarn for a cowl.
So, even when I finish the current projects, I have enough yarn to be using up until the end of this year without buying anything new!!
I’m gong Cold Sheep for the time being!
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Well, I’m going to try to anyway!!!
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Woolly Orbit 
Good move! I love the colorful projects. 🙂
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Congrats on your purge. I finally frogged a pair of argyle socks that I’ll NEVER knit so that I can use the yarn in a Halloween cowl I really want to knit. I know some day I’m going to have to put some yarns up for sale on Ravelry (I had no idea it was a thing) but for now I still enjoy looking at them. I’m lucky to have a yarn wall rather than bins. Downside is my living room looks like a yarn store. I don’t care.
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A Halloween cowl sounds like a good idea…now I want to make one! 🙂 Living inside a yarn store is the dream though right?! I’m so jealous you have a wall of yarn! Now I just need to finish some WIPS…
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