{"id":411,"date":"2013-05-10T13:02:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T13:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2013-05-10T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T13:02:35","slug":"miles-of-yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/miles-of-yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles of yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post at the end of Blog Week, I mentioned that one of my plans for the next year is to end up with less yarn in the stash. In order to do that, I need a baseline to work from. I spent an afternoon with my Ravelry<\/a> stash, bringing it up to date, and I have some figures to play with.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, did you know you can download a spreadsheet of your stash? Just press the excel logo on the top right of the stash page.<\/p>\n

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It is difficult to know whether it will be more appropriate to look at the stash in terms of length or weight, so I have both here. Obviously, using a thick yarn up will have a greater impact on the weight, rather than the yardage and using a thin yarn will have the opposite effect.<\/p>\n

In total, in my stash, I have 8.67 kg of yarn, which comes out as 15 miles, 68 chains, 18 yards and 6 inches. (I do like the imperial system for measurements of length, although for small weights I prefer metric – see bottom of post for a little reminder of how it works).<\/p>\n

Of this total, a little over half (4.5kg; 8m 48ch 17yds) has been designated for a particular project and a fair proportion of this (1.9kg; 1m 78ch 17yds) is attached to projects that I have already started.<\/p>\n

Just over a fifth of my stash consists of leftovers (most of which is sock leftovers that I am working through gradually and incorporating them into my mitred square scarf).<\/p>\n

2.87kg (4m 55ch) of my stash is not yet allocated to any project.<\/p>\n

So there we have it. I’ll go through my stash next year again and see what the difference is.<\/p>\n

My knitting this month is consistently square. As well as continuing with the mitred square scarf, I’ve revived the 2011 KAL blanket<\/a> that I’m doing in some cotton from Texere Yarns<\/a>. I can’t remember what made me shelve it in the first place and I’m quite enjoying it. The group used the patterns from a KAL on bernat.com <\/a>for the first square each month, then added a second, optional, square from a variety of sources. I had both squares for January and February and part of the first March square when I stopped. I have now finished the first March square, started the second one and added another couple of inches to the January square to make it, well… square. When first knitting it, I was a little optimistic about how far it would stretch!<\/p>\n

I was very chuffed to discover that I had won a contest this week. I entered the Sanday Spinners blog week competition<\/a> and was the only correct entry. I’m looking forward to receiving my carbon fibre needles in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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