Jocelynn has seven more great ideas for a yarn diet. If you think you are in need of a Yarn Diet, Jocelynn is your woman and Handmade is the place. As for me, any kind of diet depresses me so I think I will have a piece of cake, glass of wine and visit the Twisted Fiber Art website to see what I can add to my collection.
Jocelynn calls this the Yarn Lover's Diet but I can feel a cold sweat beginning to break out as I read through the guidelines. Her suggestions are great. If you really want to go on a Yarn Diet you might want to try this 11 step program. You really need to Google the Friday, February 16 Handmade column for the complete diet. I am going to just pick the points that grabbed me to talk about. "Set a goal. Do you want to reduce your stash by a third, half or completely?" I must admit I really don't want to reduce my stash because my stash is really my "collection." That word really changed my buying yarn into something acceptable. I'm a collector. The bigger the collection the better. But I must admit, sometimes when I am looking through my collection, I scare myself. How did I get so much yarn? And what did I think I was going to do with that yarn? Those are statements you would say about a Yarn Stash but a Yarn Collection is meant to be looked at and touched. I guess I haven't flipped all of the way over into being a collector. If I had I wouldn't have night terrors about having too much yarn. "'Shop' only from your stash, and as often as you'd like. Think of it as 'calorie-free.'" This is the best idea in the world. There is nothing more fun that finding a pattern and going shopping in your stash. Or picking a yarn from your stash then finding a pattern that is perfect. When I made the first Survivor Shawl, I designed the shawl then went to the Stash Studio to find the perfect yarn. That was the rule: the yarn had to come from the Stash Studio. It was there. I think I knit 2 shawls before I became addicted to pink yarn and bought every skein I could find. Twelve tubs later, I decided I was finished for the moment with Survivor Shawls. I should do the post on all of the things I've knit using just yarn from the Stash Studio. Or all of the projects like Survivor Shawls that made the yarn stash grow. "Knit/crochet as fast and often as possible, so you'll see results (a smaller stash) sooner, keeping you motivated." I've said this before, knitting is my yoga so why would I possibly want to knit faster. But knitting more often, I can buy into that. One way to knit more often is to find more social knitting groups or knit nights or or knitting classes. Nothing causes me to knit even more than learning a new technique. In most towns, I bet you could find a knitting group most days of the week. In addition to knitting more, thereby using your stash, you'll make new friends. I've never attended a knitting group that I didn't meet someone with friend potential. After all, you start with a mutual love. "Invite other yarnaholics to join you on your mission. (Yarn dieting alone is no fun, I'm sure.)" I choose Linda Kaufman to join to on my mission. Oh, wait! I think Linda and I have been on this mission before and it didn't work. What we ended up doing is picking out yarn for each other. And then there is my yarnaholic friend Thea. We love the same yarn, the same knitting needles, the same patterns. I don't think Thea and I could ever stop each other or want to stop each other from buying yarn. I think we want to see the "yarn sparkle" in the other person's eyes when we first see a new yarn, or see a a yarn we absolutely must have. We like to see each other happy.
Jocelynn has seven more great ideas for a yarn diet. If you think you are in need of a Yarn Diet, Jocelynn is your woman and Handmade is the place. As for me, any kind of diet depresses me so I think I will have a piece of cake, glass of wine and visit the Twisted Fiber Art website to see what I can add to my collection.
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