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Signs of the times...

May 22, 2007

Kerry, my hostess for SP10 asked us to flash our stashes. I'm pretty sure that she's had other things for us to post on our blogs, but the emails somehow ended up in my bulk folder and are long gone. Sorry Kerry! I've added her to my address book to prevent this from happening again.

So here's my stash:

Yup, that's ALL of it. That even includes all of the yarn I've spun recently. One 21 gallon bin. Well, with the exception of the small box of 4 and a half skiens of Cascade 220 below. Those are for the bag I need to make for the Spring Felted Bag Exchange.

I've seen a lot of other stashes online. All the others include multiple bins or whole shelving units full of yarn. My stash is so small I'm almost embarassed by it. I am a real knitter; I just have a small stash. It's not that I couldn't amass a huge collection of yarn. It's simply a sign of the times. My stash would have needed two bins before I quit my job to stay home with my son. Now, with only one income, I only buy yarn if I have an actual purpose for it, and I frequently knit from my stash. Yes, I know two bins is modest too. My smaller stash is just a sign of the times at our house.

Personally, I think I should win some kind of prize for having the smallest stash.

In other news, we've been using some ASL with the baby. At 10 months I don't expect much. He started waving hi and bye-bye a few weeks ago. But his first real sign? The adapted baby sign for doggie! I even missed the first time he used it, but he's done it again a few times since then. He even did it once when I said, "Hey there's your doggie. Do you remember the sign for doggie?" Yes, I'm a proud mommy... with a baby who loves his doggie.

Now if we could just get him to use more useful signs like all done, water, milk, and up.

Hey, you can be a real knitter with a small stash! Those of us with "whole shelving units full of yarn" can not possibly knit even a fraction of that yarn in a timely manner and are thus basically squandering money - hardly a redeeming quality and certainly not a knitting requirement. I have a compulsion in all areas of my life to collect more (okay, "all") of a thing that I love, hence the piles of books lying around my house when the library is a much smarter thing and the bags of yarn I can't possibly knit up in the next five years - it doesn't really have anything to do with knitting.

I guess it is also a sign of the times for us as well, since with getting married I sort of went in the other direction from having one income to having two to share all the bills with (before we got married, our house was actually my house, so the mortgage was all me).

Sorry I am commenting on all these old entries, but I didn't get to read them the first time! :)