Deirdre Saoirse Moen

My mother and I are giving up our storage unit this week, and that means the yarn and spinning fiber needs to be re-homed or reduced sufficiently that it can be stored in the house along with the stuff that's currently in storage.

We'll be having stash reduction again on Sunday, October 4, from 1-4 p.m.
( More details behind cut including discounts.... )

Tomorrow morning is almelina's jewelry show and my own yarn destashing, redux.

This time, we put ads on Craigslist, though most of the inquiries have been from Ravelry.

I keep finding lovely yarn for which I had no idea what I'd do with it. In this way, yarn is very unlike a fountain pen: with a pen, you write with it, and the type of writing you'd do with it only depends a little on the type of pen (I have one with a very broad italic nib for signatures, but most of my pens are everyday pens). So I can pick up a pen and it can be a letter-writing or fiction-writing instrument at will.

But yarn needs to be shaped into something, and what it can be depends on fiber and how many of its kin one has in compatible skeins or hanks.

And then there's spinning fiber, which is like yarn abstracted. In this (rather bad, but hey, I'm on vicodin for pain from moving all the frakkin' yarn around, so gimme a break already), roving is like meta-yarn: it can be more different kinds of things than yarn can.

I keep finding little bits of my handspun, and I like it. It pleases me to see it. I have a gauge swatch of some I did a few years back, and I was surprised again that a) it looks handspun, but only just, and b) for my first effort at knitting something that seemed consistent -- it was pretty darn good. Too bad it was only a gauge swatch.

Anyhow, for those of you who are too far away or not into fiber -- thoughts and prayers that each box will find a good home (other than mine) would be appreciated.

I sold some yarn.

It may not sound like much, but the relative quantity of yarn I have, and the annoyance value to get it listed, well, it's a small victory.