Posted on 10/24/2006 5:01:30 PM PDT by fanfan
Ha! I don't have to stay home and knit...I just bring it along with me. :-P
As a long term knitter, I have to warn you.... you just said the equivalent of "I just bought my first rock of crack and hope to be completely addicted soon." ;-D
i am quite sure there are some knitters who are full on HOs! ; ) present company excluded of course!!!!
Well, not at the same time. Someone could lose an eye.
that truly made me LOL!!!
Hey, get back to us when your yarn stash fills 2 plastic tubs, which you hide under a table, you own two of every size knitting needle, and surfing for free knitting patterns becomes more fun than FR! I give you a month to be at that stage. A knitting book is the gateway drug, the big one, the herion of knitting, has to be felted purses and mittens. There are no 12-step programs for knitting. Stop. Think about it...then knit on!
knit ping! to a NON-Ho knitter ; )
"when your yarn stash fills 2 plastic tubs, which you hide under a table"
Piker. ;-D
I'm more at the stash level of the Yarn Harlot....
http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/
The problem isn't projects. The problem is UNfinished projects. I am halfway through a very complicated shawl-collared cable vest from a Vogue pattern, which I started two years ago. The back was fun. The front panels are not fun, so there it sits.
I have a 3/4 length sleeve fuchsia wool sweater that only needs to have the cowl neck knitted on. It is not knitted on.
My husband thinks it would be brilliant to have a group of knitters trade unfinished projects; that way, every project would be new to US and our attention span might last all the way to the end.
"I am only allowed to have one knitting project going at one time."
Brain.... cannot.... absorb....concept...cannot...process... concept....brain...shutting....dowwwwwwnnnn....
Be careful when you do the math and figure you'll save money if you take up spinning to have handspun wool to knit with.
No acrylic allowed in my house!
And then there's the matter of what breeds of sheep make the nicest spinning fleeces.... =:-0
I am almost sure my neighborhood is not zoned for sheep and other livestock.
Life has gone totally crazy, probably until mid December. Once we get moved and settled in enough, I will start posting much more...but I haven't had as much online time for a couple of months.
Only one project? Such discipline...such strength of will...you are made of stronger stuff than I am....
Ssshhhh...you're talking about my work basket there...last count three unfinished scarves, one unfinished sweater, and a pair of unfinished socks (that one has the best chance of being finished, I believe). If I haven't worked on it in 3 months, then the yarn becomes fair game for new projects.
But I have an excuse now. Most of my yarn and unfinished things are in storage. I even had to buy some emergency stash needles so I could be sure to have something to work with until we're finished moving.
KIP away, sister. People who can't stand to see people knitting in public have problems.
Okay, that's hard core. I concede the "addiction" field to you.
I do buy some bulk acrylic to make baby blankets to give away...on the principle that the recipients probably won't know how to deal with shrinkable products.
And I do buy the occasional weird novelty yarn, but it's for scarves, so it's never too many skeins.
But as a spinner with a large stash of fiber, yarn is not the problem...
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