Letting Go

I want to say thank you to everyone who has purchased some of my stash that I put up for sale. It means a lot to me and I hope you all enjoy your new yarns! I’m sure I will be watching to see what they get made into :o)

At first, I was really saddened to have to sell off my stash. I had to do something, though, because going to the chiropractor has made a huge difference in my quality of living. I thought long and hard about it and decided that there’s a lot of things I have no plans for or don’t really want any longer. I was holding on to a lot of things I’d probably never use unless it was the last yarn in my stash. I realized that as I grew as a knitter, my tastes changed. It happens to everyone, I’m sure. When things started to get shipped off to their new homes, I actually felt happy about it as if I was giving the yarn a new life. I know that probably sounds silly, but there it is – I was glad it was going to someone who would do something with it instead of it just hanging around in my stash with no purpose. Even better is that I’ve made enough to cover BOTH appointments next week and possibly one the following week as well. I feel lighter, now, too. Maybe my stash was weighing me down a bit every time I looked at it and realized so much of it had no purpose without my even realizing it.

There are still some things left and you can check my Ravelry Trade/Sell page or the Destash Blog post I made.

Initially, I didn’t tell Nick about it. Last night, though, I told him that I had put a bunch of my yarn up for sale to cover my appointments. He was shocked, but also happy for me. This morning, I told him that I’d made enough for my appointments next week and he was amazed and proud of me for giving up my yarn. I explained that there were a lot of things I wasn’t using and I was okay with letting it go. I knew that the things I really wanted to keep would keep me knitting for probably the next year or two. He told me to look on the bright side of things: once things aren’t so tight and we can afford to buy more yarn, I can get things that I will actually use. He even joked that it will be better than the yarn I’ve let go and maybe he’s right. Not "better, more expensive yarn", but yarn that will be better for me because I will use it, it will have a purpose. I think I much prefer to buy yarn and know what I’ll make with it rather than buy a skein or two of a yarn, then decide I don’t have enough to make anything I want out of it (which is what happened with most of the yarn I decided to destash). I suppose that sock yarn is a good impulse buy yarn for me since I love to knit socks, but other than that, I doubt that I’ll be doing much other impulse buying from now on.

I have been resisting casting on, but Wednesday, I failed and cast on for a sock. I just couldn’t take being without a sock on my needles! Nothing fancy – just a toe-up sock with 2 x 2 ribbing on foot and leg of the sock. I’m using Austermann Step in color 10. I’ve never worked with this yarn before, but I’m really enjoying watching the stripes take shape as I work on it. I’ve been working on Wisp, still, doing a repeat here and there. The Bag has seen some progress, too, but this week it seems that the counting was just throwing me for a loop and I was doing more frogging than actual work (knit 1 row for every 2 frogged), so I set it down in favor of something that required less attention.

For my birthday, my family got me Knit 2 Together by Tracy Ullman and Mel Clark. There’s actually a few things I would like to make out of there, so that was exciting to get! Nick got me the new Matchbox Twenty and Rascal Flatts CD’s and Nathaniel got me an Office Depot Carl Edwards #99 TY Beanie Baby bear.

Well, I’ve got stuff to get done. Have a good weekened everyone!