It’s Furious Balancing

The New Adventures of Queen Victoria

I want to keep my New Year’s Resolutions on the small side this year.  In addition to the flossing, in 2009 I hope to:

2.  Read The New Testament;¹ and

3.  Shop from the yarn stash instead of buying more yarn.

Of those, Item No. 2 is perhaps the easiest.  Item No. 1 — flossing — is easier to blow off than Jesus.  Item No. 3 — cutting down on the Yarn Shopping — will be difficult, especially since I see it as a way to support the flagging economy.  It’s patriotic, dammit!  Buy yarn!  Buy luxury fibers from indie hand-dyers!  Yeah!

Speaking of hand-dyed yarn,  I want to share with you the 50/50 merino-silk blend I found at The Woolen Rabbit.  It’s called Opulence for a reason.

Click here for the extra-huge sooper-size picture.  It’s worth the bandwidth.  I promise.  The depth of color and shading in this yarn is nothing short of phenomenal.²  Even my stashed Silky Malabrigo can’t hold a candle to this.³  I want to make the Poinsettia cowl from the Winter Knitty with this, but I am dutifully finishing my second Pagoda Sock before I cast on the next project.

/sigh

The point of this, I suppose, is that I should Shop The Stash because I know there’s excellent stuff in there.   Really excellent stuff.  Malabrigo and Rowan and Dream in Color and Handmaiden Sea Silk and and and…

So much potential!  That’s the thing about knitters and stash yarn.  Having the yarn stay in skeins and hanks — instead of, like, actually knitting with it  — is the stuff of dreams.

We’ll see how it goes, I suppose.  I’m telling myself that I’m not forbidding myself from buying more yarn, just that I should pay more attention to what I already have stashed first.  AND, I tell myself, if I make room in the stash, I can acquire more yarn guilt-free!

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1. I have a list of daily readings that let you read the entire Bible  over the course of a year.  I’ve tried doing the whole shebang in year, but I got bogged down in both Paul’s epistles and Leviticus.  I think if I just stick with the New Testament I can see it through. [↩]
2. This is the “Stormy” colorway.  It looks more blue in her site, but I can attest that it is a spectacular shade of silver. [↩]
3. A picture of the Silky Malabrigo — in a similar colorway — may be found here. [↩]

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