Showing posts with label diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diet. Show all posts

Don't fill your stomach with sweets (an old Finnish saying)

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Last night This morning I ordered three 300g cones of yarn from ColourMart (one of 51% baby alpaca/49% cashmere in fingering weight and two of 100% extra fine merino in DK weight). I stayed up until 5am ooohing and aaahing at the yarn options (and the prices) before I made the purchase. The fact that I will likely not get the yarn for ages yet because of the airport closures did not seem important.

Today, I woke up and felt like I've had enough. Yes, you heard me correctly. I have bought enough yarn.
My stash is rapidly approaching the infamous SABLE status (Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy) and something's got to give. Besides, since I always favour whatever yarn is the newest, if I keep buying stuff, I never end up knitting things in my queue that I originally made the purchases for.

Therefore I do solemnly swear that I will not make any new yarn purchases until I have knitted at least 5000 metres out of my stash since the beginning of 2010. You can watch my progress by the ticker on the right-hand side of the page. I am currently at just over 3500 metres, so it's not a hugely ambitious goal, but baby steps, baby steps. Yarn received in swaps or as a present naturally doesn't count.

(I hope my LYS doesn't go out of business because of this!)

(As a side note: I have two pairs of socks, two hats, a pair of mittens and a summer top to share with you! I also have a spring scarf, a shawl and two bags in the WIP rotation. I'll post photos as soon as I get off my arse to do so.)
 
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