Link to Love: Using up that Yarn Stash

Today's link to love is a post on Craftsy called Ultimate Stash Busters for Knitters.  Read it.  It's great.

If you're a regular reader here on Creating Laura you know all about my yarn stash that crept up on me before I realized I was acting like a yarn hoarder.  But even if you're new here and you knit, I'm sure you can relate to the yarn stash problem.

What I love about this Craftsy post is that there are a couple of ideas that hadn't occurred to me before.  Out of their suggestions, my favorite one is using scrap yarn along with regular stuffing when making stuffed toys.  Genius!

I have spent quite a bit of time thinking up small knitting projects that will use leftover yarn, and one such project is the pattern I'll be publishing here later this week... I can't wait to share it with you!

What do you think of the Craftsy post?  Were any of their ideas new to you?  And do you have any other stash busting ideas of your own?  I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Happy reading!
xoxo
Laura

Knitting Washcloths

My road trip knitting project has turned into a rehearsals knitting project. Isn't it funny how that happens? The majority of my ventures end up taking longer than I expect them to. Sometimes it's because they end up being more difficult than expected, but it's often because I get carried away and turn little ideas into bigger ones. That's what happened here.

I was going to make one little washcloth to use up some cotton yarn from my yarn stash, and I ended up loving it so much that I decided to make a whole set.

Do your little knitting projects have a tendency to turn into larger ones as well?

I can't help myself...
xoxo
Laura

p.s. I'll be posting the pattern for these little washcloths as soon as I finish the whole set.

Yarn Stash

The other day I saw a fishing poster that said "keep calm and cast on" and I thought it would apply beautifully to knitting as well.  Don't you think so?

Anyway, speaking of knitting, here's a picture of my personal yarn collection:

It takes up an entire shelf of my bedroom bookshelf, and I honestly have no idea how it got so large.

I always hear other people talking about their yarn "stash" and I've always wondered why someone would even want to have yarn stashed away.  Every time it came up, I would think isn't the whole point of yarn to knit with it and not to just have it lying around?

But now, suddenly, I get it.  A sizable yarn stash isn't something you work to achieve, it's an unavoidable hazard of being a knitter.

All of my yarn is left over from the projects for which I bought one too many skeins or from the projects that never came to be because I got sidetracked by somethings else. I never just bought yarn for the fun of buying it, and yet, another yarn stash has been born.

As far as hazards go, I suppose a wool-stuffed bookshelf isn't such a bad one.

Do you have a yarn stash too?
xoxo
Laura