Yarn 24/7

Every once in a while the question "If you were to knit with one yarn for the rest of your life, which one will you choose? My 24/7 yarn, the one I could knit with forever is Karabella Aurora 8. It is squishy yummy squishy, superwash, comes in all colors, and softer than butter. Every time I start a new project with it, I wonder why I have bothered with something else considering I could use for about everything, even worsted weight socks.
So imagine my surprise when I checked my FO 2006 and FO 2005 and found nothing knit with this yarn - what happened? Probably a serious attack of "there is nothing worth of this yarn, I'll just stash it." But that stops now, 2007 will be the year I knit with the yarn I love instead of stashing it.
Up there? Bejeweled for my mom, three balls of Karabella Aurora 8 in Cornflower, the color of her eyes.

Yarn Marathon

I posted a while ago that I was joining Wendy's Knit from Your Stash 2007 - the idea of finding out how much stuff I can make without buying new yarn certainly is intriguing (and Principessa decided to help selecting a cardigan from this that takes 2,000 yards of yarn!).
Then I found out about the L&V Sock Marathon and I jumped it - the purpose of the marathon is to find out how many miles of sock yarn you can knit in three months. Anything that I think is sock yarn qualifies, and I can knit whatever with it. Very low key do not stress about the rules KAL.
First task? Count how many yards of sock yarn I have. So, spreadsheet, sum, 22,718 yards. Sounds high, but I have no idea what that means. Google tells me it is almost 13 miles. Hum. Let's try again in kilometers.

21 km? Holy yarn! That does sound like a lot. Even if the general consensus is that anything lower than 15 miles does not qualify as "a problem".

The stuff in photo? Worsted weight, Bejeweled for my mom in Karabella Aurora 8 (from stash!) and One Skein Wonder in Rio de la Plata.