A Tiny Bit More Stash Enhancement

Some KnitPicks yarn and a set of their very wonderful double-pointed needles.

Socks for the Royal Gardener

These are knit in Opal's Hundertwasser and the colorway is perfect for a gardening sort of person. The socks are great inside of a pair of Crocs, and even if your feet get wet, they'll stay warm because wool is that way.

Hubby doesn't like posing for pictures and this photo pretty much says it all as he prances through the offices after posing a few seconds too long by his standards. Har!

Hey, you want new socks, you model them for the Queen's sock blog. It's the rule!

Finally some socks for me!

These out of Trekking knit up in a baby cable. When I saw the photo, I thought I'd goofed and knit K2 P2 on the foot of one sock, but it turns out I had one sock on inside-out. Whew!

More than luxury

So here's another cedar chest and it's contents. It included at least 30 balls of sock yarn. My total inventory of full skeins was over 300. That didn't include any cotton which amounted to maybe two dozen skeins. Then there're about ten pounds of leftovers, I'd guess enough for at least 30 of those aforementioned tea cozies. The inventory of the roving is not included in any of this.

I thought about the Monthly Selection at the Women Writing the West reading group, about a German pioneer in Oregon territory whose clothing is becoming threadbare, and who is learning to pound cedar bark into useable material. You might say I feel just a little bit chagrined by my bounty and her lack. The story even references a quote that very much hits home. To think I coveted all that yarn at Green Valley Weavers just a few days ago!

Next post will discuss what I can de-accession.

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty. ~ Socrates

Going through the stash

They say a picture is worse a thousand words. This, the wool contents of one wooden chest. More tomorrow, when I unload the others. Somewhere underneath all that is my dining table.