Sheep On My Stuff

I present to you a quickie two-day using-up-the-stash project: SPIRALING PASTELS OF DOOM!

It's 30" x 36" and made of the nicest, softest acrylic I've ever worked with (Dark Horse Fantasy). It took 382 grams, which certainly helps my stash statistics. :)

Hey, speaking of statistics: I said quite a while ago that I was going to try to complete/toss/frog 1.5 projects for every 1 project I started. Now, when I made that goal, I had a closetful of incomplete projects, and I was hoping that I'd use that goal as incentive to stop starting projects and not finishing them. However, at this point I'm down to nine WIPs, two of which will be done by the end of the year, one of which I plan to frog when I get around to it, and two more which may or may not end up frogged. I'd be down to five if all that happens, so it really looks like I've kicked the startitis habit. (No, seriously, that's a perfectly reasonable number of WIPs! It is!)

My current ratio is 102:101 (which rounds off to 1.0:1), and that's counting yarn I bought and stashed (but haven't yet worked with) as "new projects". Without counting that, I'd be at 102:88 (1.2:1). Not bad at all. :)

I was also going to try to knit 2 projects from the stash for every 1 project made out of new yarn. WHICH I HAVE DONE. \o/ My ratio is 2.0 exactly, counting yarn I've bought but haven't used and cross-stitching patterns I've bought but haven't worked (wow, why did I start counting those in the spreadsheet? The yarn, I think counting that is probably the right thing to do, but the cross-stitching?). Without the cross-stitching, my ratio would be 2.6:1. :)

The destashing goal is definitely a better one for my sanity, better for reclaiming closet space, but it's nice to see I wasn't as far off with the original goals as I thought I would be by the end of the year. :)