I also love yarn.
Yarn is so tactile... so versatile.
It also seems to multiply completely on its own.
Yarn is so tactile... so versatile.
It also seems to multiply completely on its own.
I knew the lure of yarn could easily become an obsession. It's one of the main reasons I resisted crocheting and knitting for years whenever I wandered past the skeins in a store.
My hunch was correct. The stash took over within months of picking up my hooks and needles. In 2012, I made a pact that I would use up a sizable quantity of my yarn before I purchased anything new. It worked pretty well, until that trip to Idaho after Thanksgiving (Read all about it in this post).
This year, I created some new yarn rules. I allowed myself several purchases, but I couldn't buy yarn to simply stash it -- I needed to have an actual pattern and purpose for the yarn.
No matter what 'rules' I make for myself though, I still love yarn whether it's new or in the stash. Apparently there's a whole day to celebrate that love. I Love Yarn Day kicks off tomorrow! If you're a fiber freak, then there's plenty of ways you can celebrate and share your love.
Not having my iPhone for a week meant that I couldn't actually post any photos to Instagram, so I missed out on October's #7vignettes. There's always next month. Besides, September's #7vignettes fit in perfectly for tomorrow's special day. It just goes to show you that I really do love yarn. Even photographing it can be fun.
Here are the 'stories' behind #7vignettes from September.
GREEN: yarn salad topped off with a sprinkling of buttons.
FOLDED: Folded hands.
ALCOHOL: Don't string me along... What are you having? Red, white or whiskey?
PILE: one pile simply leads to another pile.
BORROWED: my mother-in-law's needles, the scratchiest yarn ever, and her steely resolve as I learned to knit without surrendering.
ROUND: What's round? A yarn hat cake, of course, complete with optional (and detachable) pompom decoration.
FRAMED: it's time to take the kid gloves off. I'm not just spinning a yarn -you've been framed.
If you missed Part I of the #7vignettes, you can view that post here.
Happy I Love Yarn Day to my fellow fiber fanatics!
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