The other day I mentioned a yarn widget. I am taking 3 classes with Lucy Neatby this month. The one I am most looking forward to is on working with combining colors and different weights of yarns–you know using up your oddments. I have been saving little bits and bobs of yarn for years. Above you see the result. Seperated into ‘warm’ vs ‘cool’ colors I have quite a stash of yarns to be combined into something. I figured I was hooked up for the class until I read the materials list ’10gms or more sized balls of various DK, sport, and fingering yarns…the more colors the more fun’ or something like that. First I pulled out the heavier than DK weight yarns:
WOWZA I didn’t even realize I knit with heavy yarns. Actually I don’t–every single one of those balls is left over from some work project. Sometimes companies let me keep the leftovers seeing as I have Princess and Angel Face to clothe. Now Nece too but I haven’t come up with a name yet that just sticks. Then I pulled out the yarn balls that I guestimated were over 10g:
Now I am supposed to have 8 different balls and here are 7. Almost enough for class although 4 of them are Jo Sharp DK left over from a hat-obviously coordinating and thus not providing a challenge in color or weight combo-ing. And I had planned on using them together again seeing as I used only 5 yds of the contrast colors. O Well. The blue yarn in back is also a fullish ball[just a handful of yards used] . But I am willing to sacrifice something from my oddment pile for a class. I then went through my yarn stash, which you saw part of in the background of yesterdays photos, looking for anything that wasn’t a full ball in fingering to DK weight:

MOST of these are shetlands. 2 are windoffs from cones that were on a shelf. The huge ball is what is left from making some socks out of an 8oz hank of yarn. I guess I don’t have a yarn widget after all. However I have already sent out an SOS to KBTH-ers asking for partial balls. 3 people are generously sending me partials. If that were not enough I had mentioned to Helene Rush[theres little accent marks there I just don’t know how to type them] of K1C2 for any partials her knitters sent her or discontinued colors or left on cone after winding off of cone into hank/ball or stuff she decided not to carry after all. Pretty nervy aren’t I? Well I have worked for them for 7 years and I always send back my partials. Avg out 6 sweaters a year I didn’t think it was too much to ask. Lookie what she sent:
I am hoping that slightly glitzy fur stuff in pink, lime, and navy is a new yarn. Its soooooooo much fun. OK you alls I should have more yarn to show soon[unless people haven’t sent it yet and are disgusted by the excesses of my stash] I hope YOU have a great one rolling around in your yarn too!