I’m afraid I can’t tap dance around this topic. Of course my answer is more, always more. Never ever less.
This weekend is the local yarn crawl. It ran from Thursday through today. I visited two shops on Thursday and bought the above yarn: Dirty Water Dyeworks Lillian gradient set and 2 skeins of Spun Right Round.
Friday I visited two more shops and bought more, see always more-never less, yarn: Anzula haiku, Toil & Trouble Classic, 2 Madelinetosh tosh merino light and Cascade Heritage.
I try to add yarn to the stash only if it meets these guidelines:
- It is something I’ve never used before
- It is too cheap to pass up (I feel this way about thrift shop finds)
- I am going to cast it on immediately as for Loopy Academy or Camp Loopy
- It is needed for a gift or a knitting request
- I like it
Yup, that last one tends to be my downfall.
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The “I like it” covers more yarn than I will ever use – not that USE is a word I associate with yarn. Nope. NEED is the associative word!
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I rarely just buy yarn, but that has more to do with color panic than anything. I did get very wild this winter and buy two color groupings from KnitPicks, thinking they would make nice baby blanket options, but that’s as far as I have gotten!! However, I could squish and drool all day long!
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“squish and drool” — perfect!
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If I bought all the yarn I wanted I would need a huge warehouse, but my criteria for buying yarn is pretty much whether or not I like it and if I have room for storing it. Period. But I think I am pretty frugal because I have a limited storage space with a set number of plastic bins. This year, though, I relied on yarn’s squishiness, or ability to be compacted, to fit new purchases into the bin. Cramming is OK.
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More, always MORE!! I have had a little self control lately (not counting the yarn crawl that just happened, but we won’t talk about that)……
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In the fantasy world I prefer to live in, MORE!!! In the reality world I inhabit, less. But that’s only because I already have MORE!!! And I am trying to have less, so I can buy MORE!!!. LOL
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Of course, the answer is always “more yarn;” however, your guidelines make me think. Do I have guidelines for yarn buying? I’ve never made a list, but having rummaged through my stash a few months ago, I’ve resolved not to buy any yarn unless I have a specific project — and pattern — in mind.
P.S. sock yarn doesn’t count because, well, socks.
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Yes, it’s always more. I did laugh at your last qualifying reason 😂
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