A plan for 2008

I know it is March 19 already, and usually a plan for the incoming year is made in December/January, but I am still wondering where the first three months of 2008 went, so here it goes. The fact that I have a somehow large stash (68,224 yards of yarn) does not bother me, but yarn marinating in my stash for too long makes me feel guilty. I can feel the yarn staring at me and thinking, "Are you EVER going to touch me?"
Hence, THE PLAN: for each month of 2008 I am going to pick the oldest yarn in my stash and decide either to make something with it RIGHT THEN, or de-stash it, or giving it away.
Since as already noted it is already March, I have January and February to take care off too.

January yarn: Lorna's Laces Shephard Sport in Glenwood, 2 skeins. Destash.

February yarn: South West Trading Company Karaoke, 2 balls in 287 Loganberry, leftovers from Sursa. I have been obsessed with making pouches lately:



I'll make two more. NOW.

March yarn: Color Me Silken, 6 skeins in Fiery. Time to use this up. Jewel-Tone Wrap
by Iris Schreier [Raverly Link]: right weight, right yardage (with 60 yards to spare). Time to cast on.

I can't believe it

This week is ski week, aka President Day Week, but here it is called ski week. Why? Because kids get a week (A WHOLE WEEK) off school.
Why?
So that people can go skiing.
You see, here you wear a t-shirt in January, so if you want to go skiing, you need a week or so to make it worthwhile to drive up to Lake Tahoe.
I do not ski. I do not like snow, it is cold and wet. And my minimum requirement for a vacation is that I can knit without risking to lose my fingers because of the cold.
Still, one week off school.

And, and the "and" really makes me mad, Stitches West is the same week as ski week. It is not that the folks at Knitting Universe do not know that it is ski week (everybody I know who knits and has school age children had emailed them about their lousy timing, maybe even several times.)
Still, ski week.
And it is raining.

So, if it were not ski week, I would be shopping until dropping dead at Stitches right now (well, not really because I do not do well in crowded places and I am making a serious effort to reduce my stash, and I am not saying this only because HWME reads this blog, hop over to Ravelry if you do not believe me.) Then I will have lunch with my husband who works five minutes away from the Santa Clara Convention Center. And then I will drive back toward home to pick up the kids.

Instead I am trapped with my kids at my store because my business partner is sick (that has nothing to do with Stitches, I'll admit that) and it is raining so they can't play outside in the gardens.

And I ran out of yarn for my Ariann. Yes, AGAIN I run out of yarn on a project. The pattern indicated I needed 1,240 yards of yarn, I had 1,240 yards of yarn, still .... running out.
And I need to rip about 5 cm back because I forgot the "AT THE SAME TIME" for the neck shaping.

The pouch? Made it last night. It's a pouch, you ran out of yarn? You make it smaller. Naturally Yarns Merino & Fur, sadly discontinued because it is a dream.

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