I'm happy to say that my knitting mojo is slowly restoring itself.
This was a particularly bad spell. I didn't knit at all on my vacation to North Carolina. I thought the dishcloths would restore the mojo. After all, you can knit one in a day or two, and instant knitting gratification usually helps me gain momentum. Nope. I knit two rows of "bricks" and then the project just sat on my coffee table.
I took advantage of this time by decreasing stash suck. I took all yarns out of their bins and sorted them: keep, sell, give. I made sure that all the yarns that I intended to keep were logged in my Ravelry stash. (I still have to take pictures, but that can wait.) I frogged a bunch of projects that I knew I would never finish and recaked the yarn. I rewound other cakes of yarn that were starting to look a little rough around the edges. I sent a big box of charity yarn to the first Raveler from the Charity Knitting group to claim it. These were largely partial skeins leftover from previous projects. Those yarns accounted for about eight percent of my stash. Bye, bye eight percent.
But all of that, that's peanuts. That's not the most exciting part. The most exciting part is that I moved another 37% of my stash to my Ravelry trade/sell page. Yep. 37. Thirty-seven. Three-seven. Yeah. Over 1/3. Uh-huh. And I've already sold 35 of them! That's money in my pocket that I can use to decrease home suck.
Some Ravelers have been surprised that I have been so willing to part with yarn, but it's been pretty easy. To select the yarns for destash, I thought about A) whether or not I really wanted to knit with the yarn, B) I had something similar in my stash that was of better quality, C) I could see myself wearing something knit in that yarn. After looking at the pile of yarn, I figured that I would enjoy the yarn more as money I can spend on my house now rather than yarn sitting in a closet that I might or might not knit one day. And no one should worry about me. I've still got 55% percent of my ample stash left.
Another benefit? Handling all of those pretty yarns restored my knitting mojo. I started working on my Radiance Shawl again.
This was a particularly bad spell. I didn't knit at all on my vacation to North Carolina. I thought the dishcloths would restore the mojo. After all, you can knit one in a day or two, and instant knitting gratification usually helps me gain momentum. Nope. I knit two rows of "bricks" and then the project just sat on my coffee table.
I took advantage of this time by decreasing stash suck. I took all yarns out of their bins and sorted them: keep, sell, give. I made sure that all the yarns that I intended to keep were logged in my Ravelry stash. (I still have to take pictures, but that can wait.) I frogged a bunch of projects that I knew I would never finish and recaked the yarn. I rewound other cakes of yarn that were starting to look a little rough around the edges. I sent a big box of charity yarn to the first Raveler from the Charity Knitting group to claim it. These were largely partial skeins leftover from previous projects. Those yarns accounted for about eight percent of my stash. Bye, bye eight percent.
But all of that, that's peanuts. That's not the most exciting part. The most exciting part is that I moved another 37% of my stash to my Ravelry trade/sell page. Yep. 37. Thirty-seven. Three-seven. Yeah. Over 1/3. Uh-huh. And I've already sold 35 of them! That's money in my pocket that I can use to decrease home suck.
Some Ravelers have been surprised that I have been so willing to part with yarn, but it's been pretty easy. To select the yarns for destash, I thought about A) whether or not I really wanted to knit with the yarn, B) I had something similar in my stash that was of better quality, C) I could see myself wearing something knit in that yarn. After looking at the pile of yarn, I figured that I would enjoy the yarn more as money I can spend on my house now rather than yarn sitting in a closet that I might or might not knit one day. And no one should worry about me. I've still got 55% percent of my ample stash left.
Another benefit? Handling all of those pretty yarns restored my knitting mojo. I started working on my Radiance Shawl again.
And I cast on a pair of socks in some Prism Saki. The colorway is Blue Lagoon.
It's about time I used this book! I got it as a gift a couple of years ago and this is the first time I'm using it.
Hey, maybe I should go through my knitting books...
Hey, maybe I should go through my knitting books...