Sheep On My Stuff

I would feel bad about how many stash posts it's taking to catalogue my whole collection, but. 26,441g. Really. It deserves seven posts.

I am so excited to have this count completed I can't even tell you. The total has changed since last time -- I completed a sweater (ZOMG!) taking my DK weight total down from 900g to 260g (and that 260g is going to go into a felted bag, I think), but I also ordered yarn for a sweater for Grant, and some Shine DK that I've sort of windfallen into and which is now MINE WOOHOO and enough for a sweater for me. (I don't know why I'm suddenly interested in sweaters, but I sure seem to be.) I picked up an extra skein of Cascade 220 so I can do armwarmers for a friend, also. But on balance, I've gone down since the last weigh-in, not up. I'll do one more on my birthday itself (even though that's a Friday and not a traditional blogging day), and that'll be my stash total, defining my goal for the next year. I CAN DO THIS.

When last seen, I was going through my sock yarn. We'll pick up there:

	Essential, Flint Tweed. I'm not crazy about tweed sock yarns; I have a friend who loves tweed and makes it look good, but this is a different kind of tweed than the tweed she likes. I got this as part of a sampler, and I am sure that someday I will knit it up. However, that day has not yet come.
	Risata in black. It's a lovely yarn as far as I can tell, but I'm not really sure what the point of wool/cotton/elastic blend sock yarn is. I always figured cotton/elastic sock yarn was for people who are allergic to wool, so if you add wool in there... then what? And if you're not allergic to wool, why would you want cotton and elastic? Maybe the mystery will be solved when I start working with it.
	From the now-discontinued line of Sock Landscape, this is Cape Cod. I'm not sure where the rest of it went. It may have become socks at some point!
	The heartbreaking Shale Multi that almost made a pair of awesome awesome awesome socks, but instead made only one. I weep.
	Regia Silk. My very favorite pair of socks for myself are made of this, and I'd really like to get around to making another pair, or another couple of pairs. They're done in a tiny gauge, and are only ankle socks. (The feel of socks slipping down my calves, or socks on my calves, is just not one I like, so ankle socks it is.) I thought perhaps I'd gone overboard on the tiny gauge, but instead these socks have turned out to feel very strong and like they'll wear well.
	More Regia Silk, but this time in grey. :)
	When we went to New Zealand, I brought lots and lots and LOTS of sock yarn, all in this new variety I'd picked up at my favorite local yarn shop. It's called Patons Kroy, and some people really like it. Maybe we got a bad batch. All the socks I knitted fuzzed like mad and had no memory, slipping down uncomfortably into Grant's shoes almost as soon as he put them on in the mornings. These are the only socks he's ever thrown out of mine, and I have to say, they deserved it. I don't know why I have this little ball of yarn left! At any rate, at one point during the vacation I realized I should have been knitting all along as we drove around (we drove a lot, all the way from Auckland to Wellington, where we then caught a ferry across Cook Strait and then took a train to Christchurch, and from there we drove to Dunedin and then up to Queenstown, from whence we departed. It was a lot of driving), as we'd have had more socks. Well, it's just as well I didn't.
	By contrast, here we have a teeny ball of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock, and while I don't know what I'll do with it, I know it'll be nice. Shepherd Sock is one of my favorite kinds of yarn ever, just outstanding, and I'm only sorry that all the colors I have in my stash (or most of them) are multicolored, as you can see:
	here...
	...and here...
	...and here...
	...though I do have some grey...
	...and black...
	...and white.
	In other leftovers, I also have some black Essential...
	...and some tan v1 Essential.
	And a random ball of Jaeger Matchmaker Merino 4-ply.
	And a scrap of Lion Wool which would seem totally useless if I didn't know I'd need it for sheep faces.

And that's all for non-lace yarns! Now for the lace. Oh, lace yarns. How I love you. You take up so little space, but you provide so very many hours of knitting enjoyment!

	The leftovers from my Windowpane shawl.
	Two gorgeous hanks of Oregon Coast. I don't know what I'll knit this into, but this is my color, so I'll probably keep it, whatever it is. Maybe another Adamas shawl.
	Gloss Lace Bare NOM NOM NOM. I have a project all picked out for this.
	Gloss Lace Sterling OH MY GOD THE JOYOUSNESS. I love this yarn to distraction. I don't know what I'll do with it, but it will be something glorious.
	The label on this one reads "Baruffa Decato", and it's some of the softest laceweight ever. It's also lighter weight than Shadow -- cobweb weight, maybe? It's lovely. I'm using it in the Mystery Stole 4 project. So far so good.
	A beautiful hand-dyed yarn I bought from djinnj on Etsy. The picture doesn't do it justice. I'm not sure what to do with this, but it'll need to be spectacular. (I am very, very lucky I've been trying to be good about buying yarn lately, or there would be a lot more hand-dyed from Etsy in my stash.)
	This one is called "Leprechaun", and I have something in mind for it. I just don't have the pattern yet. :) Which may be just as well, since I have so much in the knitting queue...
	I have this crazy idea that I'd like to knit a shawl or a blanket in a ring... to represent the Stargate. This would be great if I decided to do it in laceweight, but I'm thinking a Chappa'ai blanket would beat a Chappa'ai shawl, so I'm probably going to use this on a project that'll coordinate with the Leprechaun yarn above.
	More laceweight. So much of this multicolored stuff is discontinued laceweight from KnitPicks. I don't know why they got rid of it, but I'm glad I ordered it when I did!
	My favorite of the discontinued Gossamer colors. I look forward to knitting this into something. :)
	Pink is so very much not my color. But it'll be a great gift. :)
	Two hanks dark purple heather. I'm sure I'll find something to do with it.
	This has a pattern and coordinating beads, but it's going to be a while before it works its way to the top of the knitting queue.
	I love this color. I think this is going to need to be rectangular; it's definitely going to be for me.
	I think I have just enough of this to do an Adamas shawl, and if not that, a Diamond Fantasy for sure.
	Leftovers from my Adamas shawl. I'm amazed by how much is left; that shawl really doesn't take a lot of yarn!
	KnitPicks Bare: just when you think you've used it all up, no! There's more! I'll figure out something to do with it. :)
	Some grey Zephyr, probably enough for a very lightweight scarf.
	White Zephyr, enough for... um. I don't know what. :)
	"Rose Garden" seems like such a weird name for this color, but I do like it quite a bit. It's very vibrant and cheerful. Maybe I should do something with this that actually features roses.
	Yarn for the Top Down Purple sweater -- Sierra Pacific Glenisla. It's the yarn of the month over at Ben Franklin Crafts here in Redmond, and I'm not sure what I make of it. It's a little rougher than I might like, but then it hasn't been washed or blocked. It is pretty, and it's certainly not too scratchy to work with -- a pretty standard texture for a feltable yarn that isn't lucky enough to be Cascade 220. :) I bought seven balls, and the sweater used six (almost precisely). I made the second size, 40", but it goes from 36" to 56". It's a neat pattern, and I'll post pictures of it soon. :)
	Purple yarn for contrast to the above, for the same project. I bought 200g, but only needed 35g. The rest is going into a feltable bag. Or perhaps "feltable bags", plural.
	Swish DK Merlot Heather. I ordered one ball of this so Grant could see if he liked it better than the Cobblestone Heather for a sweater I'm planning to make him. It turned out he did, so I ordered him more of this, and am keeping the Cobblestone Heather for myself. :) :) :)
	The aforementioned Cobblestone Heather. Can't wait to decide on a project for this. :) I have 1845 yards of it, so I basically have plenty for anything I want. :)

And we're done! Shocking yet marvelous!

My birthday's Friday. Can I destash 13,221g of yarn before September 26, 2009?

(Okay. Can I at least come in under 26,441g before 9/26/09?)

I can try!