I’ll be forever thankful to the small yarn shop owner who in my first year of knitting introduced me to the wonders of various fibers and to Clara parks books that taught me how to use fiber wisely and to think beyond price to think intuitively about how fiber, yarn construction, and yarn processing can effect the final garment. So I went back to crocheting and bought dollar skeins of super savor acrylic. In the pursuit of early college, I’d put these skills away but years later at age 24, I was still in college but in my Junior year and bored out of my mind. By the end of the series of four trips we took out there, I had inherited a collection of hooks and needles which I still have to this day. Bound in on the top of the mountain by a surprise early snowstorm I listened to my great grandfather tell the stories of his ancestors mountain while my grandmother patiently leaned over me and corrected a mistake here or there. I first learned to crochet as a 16 year old girl while visiting my great grandmother in Arkansas. Seriously, we can’t ship the prizes internationally, as much as we’d like to. Maybe you live in Iceland and have a friend in Seattle? Plan a trip to the States to haul home your prize. Two names will be drawn randomly from all complete entries, one to win Kay’s Stash and one to win Ann’s Stash. (It is a favorite habit for knitters in the know.) If you have already signed up for Snippets, a) thank you! and b) do leave a comment below, because your entry is not complete without your leaving a comment, and also: it’s fun to hear knitting origin stories.Įntries accepted from now until Monday, September 25, 2017, 11:59 pm Pacific time. Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Snippets, at the bottom of this page.Leave a comment below naming the first yarn you ever bought.It’s a book with a lot of wisdom about the care and feeding of a stash of one’s own. It’s a lot of yarn, frankly, some of which we have nurtured and marinated to a point of exquisite vintage.Įach prize will come, of course, with a copy of A Stash of One’s Own. There are a lot of containers at Ann’s house.) But the photos here show you the two prizes. (That’s like asking somebody’s bra size!) (More accurately, we don’t really know. We are not going to say what percentage of our stash we are giving away. (Careful observers will note that some of this stash has seen a vision and transformed itself into a granny square.) The colors are the juicies and blahs that I love to combine. I made two cherished Mitered Square Blankets from this yarn, and yet there is at least another blanket’s worth of yarn left over. My stash has one oddball add-on, pictured below: this is my dearly beloved cache of Tahki Cotton Classic. Now that I’m giving it away, I see so many possibilities here. Like Ann’s pile, mine contains both big brands and small-batch skeins from fiber festivals and trunk shows. My pile o’ yarn is daintier than Ann’s, but full of really good things that I’m only giving up because I’ve held onto them for a long time without the Perfect Project coming into view, and also because I love humankind and want someone to experience these hanks of joy. There’s more in this prize than could fit on my table, so there will be surprises beyond these. Quantities range from a single skein to a couple of sweater quantities of MadTosh and Berroco Ultra Alpaca. And fiber festival yarns you’ve never heard of. Lots of color-from hand dyers, small makers, and larger companies. Fibers including wool, linen, tencel, silk, mohair, hemp. Laceweight, fingering, sock yarn, DK, worsted. My goal here is to give a knitter a tasting menu of all sorts of yarns. With this as your base stash, you’ll be well positioned to expand on your stash skills with confidence and courage. Think of it as a stash starter, like a sourdough starter. We humbly present our effort to share the luv. What about knitters who don’t have stashes? Shouldn’t everybody have a stash? What about knitters who are just starting out? Or unaware that having a pile of yarn within arm’s reach is a source of comfort, inspiration, and (in a pinch) insulation? What about those knitters who are tired of all that time-consuming selecting, deciding, choosing, and paying for yarn? Stash is often a reflection of a knitter’s inner state. The range of essays is pretty astonishing, given the very specific topic. We are proud to be a part of this volume, a lovingly curated collection of 22 essays that cover the subject of yarn ownership. If you haven’t heard about Clara Parkes’s new anthology, A Stash of One’s Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting Go of Yarn, where have you been?
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