Sheep On My Stuff

Okay. I have a new organizational system going on -- rather than using Post-Its, I enter things directly into a spreadsheet, and I enter yarn type and color as I go -- which means that from here on out, things will be better organized, but today's post is a mishmash. Let me introduce you to some very random yarns in my collection.

First off, say hello to the classic I Really Don't Know Why I Have This Yarn At All yarn, two balls of Maggi's Linen:

Seriously, I have no clue. I guess I thought I was gonna make sheep or something. Anyway, there's 100g of it. I listed it as "will trade or sell" on Ravelry, and 300 people have it stashed, so who knows? It might get picked up. (I destashed some yarn that was listed "trade or sell" last week. AWESOME. For those of you on Ravelry, look here. I will send you that yarn for the cost of shipping. (I know some of it is scraps and some of it is crap yarn, but seriously, I will send you as much as you want for the cost of shipping. Take a look.) Big thanks to Ravelry's NeedleNerd and SleepyCat for helping me destash -- a total of 1020g have been destashed thanks to these two! If only I were letting myself count that towards my goal. But no, the rules are set; it's September 26 or bust. Still, that does mean less I'll have to destash after that!)

Anyway, here's the rest of today's mishmash:

	Knit Picks Sock Garden Hydrangea. Yes, I ordered it just for the name. (Hydrangea is kind of an in-joke amongst me and some of my writer friends. You Don't Want To Know. :) ) This is destined to be a felted sheep eventually.
	Happy Feet sock yarn in a lovely brown. But the thing is, I'm kind of done with fancy sock yarn for socks. I'll probably make this into a shawl -- it might be a small one, but it'll be pretty. Or I could do the Adamas shawl again; it only takes about 800 yards, so I could manage it easily.
	Knit Picks Memories Rocky Mountain Dusk. Again, it's lovely, but I'm done with pretty sock yarn. I just want plain boring socks at this point. Or maybe lacy ones. Anyway, regardless, Not This In Socks. So another shawl, maybe. I'll probably never get sick of lace shawls.
	Sock Garden Hollyberry. This just screams "Christmas" to me, but in a good way. I'm thinking there need to be some Christmas Sheep made out of this, but they do need a feltable red or green face yarn! I'll probably need to order some Palette to get a good match.
	Gloss Cocoa. Isn't it gorgeous? I don't know what I'll do with it, but no doubt I'll think of something.
	Gloss Dusk. There's an Alice Starmore sweater I want to make out of this.
	Palette Tan. Maybe a Fair Isle hat, with the next one...
	Palette Nutmeg. I actually have two balls of this, but I thought I only had one, so this is the picture I took.
	Matchmaker Merino 4-ply, dark grey. Um. Something. Arm warmers. I don't know.
	See above, only purple!
	See above two, only black!
	Oh, God, I almost don't want to knit with this so much as I want to sleep with it. It's cashmere/silk, and it's gorgeous. I have thought about making steampunk Victorian handwarmers/armwarmers for a couple of friends of mine (one of whom is allergic to wool, and thus, hey, maybe cashmere?), but have yet to find an appropriate pattern. OH MY GOD IT'S SOFT.
	I really haven't got the faintest idea what to do with this. I mean, it's bright white, and I seriously doubt it will hold any dye. Um. Hmm. Ponderponder. But it's quite soft!
	I needed black...
	...and red. I did! No, I'm still not going to say why.

Okay. So, all told, now my totals look like this:

There is so much more sockweight coming you cannot even imagine. There's a ton of laceweight, too. However, much to my surprise, there's only 5435 grams of sockweight and 3335 grams of laceweight -- yes, the entire stash is now photographed, uploaded to my gallery, uploaded to Flickr, and entered into Ravelry, ZOMG -- and I can say for sure that I have 25,326 grams of yarn total.

I'm really not sure what I'll have by the time my birthday rolls around; if I continue knitting and avoid buying any more yarn, I will probably not have much more to add to the spreadsheet -- the only yarn in the house that isn't in here is the ball and a half of blue Shadow that's being made into the Flower Basket shawl, and since I intend to finish that by the time my birthday hits, it may not need to be counted. This said, the Puyallup Fair is going on right now, and I intend to go and look for yarn. :) Maybe I'll have destashed and knitted up enough by then to make it a zero-sum proposition.

It is about time to make a list of Projects I Want To Have Done By December, though. And the Mystery Stole by PinkLemonTwist has started up, and it looks like it's going to be gorgeous -- I'm using a grey laceweight called Baruffa Cashwool and some gorgeous purple beads. I'm also getting started on some of the projects I have had on the needles forever (one Baby Surprise Jacket is done, just needs buttons, and if I'm really lucky, I'll have enough yarn for a second), and I need to re-measure myself and figure out which size of the Cable-Down Raglan I'm knitting (I started out knitting one size, but I've lost 15 pounds and a shirt size since then; I may need to rip back a pattern repeat).

Also, if anyone knows how much yardage a Baby Bog Jacket takes, can you let me know? I'd like to use up about 800 yards of Dark Horse Fantasy on it, but I don't know if that's quite enough!